Giving pigs the ability to digest more nutrients in their grains could help reduce the pork industry's environmental impact, says...

When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it...

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Credit: Courtesy of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network A new study has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today...

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Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and European collaborators...

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Bottom Line: Two studies and a related editorial examined the effect of more or less frequent follow-up testing after treatment...

The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that overall cancer death rates continue to...

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Credit: Ali Freibott, US Forest Service When Mount St. Helens erupted 38 years ago today, it not only dramatically transformed...

Credit: University of Basel, Yasunori Okamoto Complex reaction cascades can be triggered in artificial molecular systems: Swiss scientists have constructed...

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