Credit: (© Evgeny V. Yan/FSU Jena) (Jena, Germany) He's Australian, around half a centimetre long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years...

Credit: Kobe University Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a common virus found worldwide. When CMV infects fetuses, it can cause serious...

Credit: © Humberto Yamaguti SAN FRANCISCO (July 24, 2017) -- A team of researchers -- including Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator...

Credit: Maffetone, Rivera-Dominguez and Laursen. Does your waist measure more than half your height? If so, you may be part...

Credit: SUGIMOTO Takaomi A new species of non-photosynthesizing parasitic plant has been discovered on the subtropical island of Ishigaki in...

Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - For the first time, Cornell University researchers are using imaging capabilities at the Cornell...

For nearly a century, the O'Shaughnessy seawall has held back the sand and seas of San Francisco's Ocean Beach. At...

Credit: Karel Tejkal, used with permission AMHERST, Mass. - Twenty years ago, microbiologist Barry Goodell, now a professor at the...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance...

Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez. For many years biologists have wondered why plants have so many genes coding for proteins that are...

Credit: Sobolevsky lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (July 24, 2017)?Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have captured the...

DETROIT - The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae - or V. cholerae - causes cholera, an infectious and often fatal disease...

Credit: Illustration courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Earth image courtesy of NASA. Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various...

Credit: Photo: Patrick Cabrol Copyrights: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic...

Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate...

Credit: Deanna Dent, Arizona State University Alzheimer's disease tragically ravages the brains, memories and ultimately, personalities of its victims. Now...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Tiny eel-like creatures called nematodes are surrounding us. While they can be free-living (a...

Credit: © 2015 MBARI MOSS LANDING, CA--An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two...

URBANA, Ill. - Research from the University of Illinois is helping swine producers know what they're getting when they buy...