Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) When crime lab chemists handle evidence that contains illegal drugs, trace ...

As if lung cancer, emphysema and heart disease weren't enough, there's more bad news for cigarette smokers. Researchers at the ...

PHILADELPHIA - A compound secreted in the bloodstream could be the key factor that causes wounds in older people to ...

Credit: UBC Okanagan The Sherpa people of the Himalayas have long been recognized for their unique ability to excel physically ...

Credit: QUT: Anthony Weate QUT Professor Martin Sillence, from QUT's School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, said a new ...

The long-chain compounds perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) are the most commonly examined substances in the subgroup of ...

Credit: Credit: Paul Stamets In an evaluation of the safety and abuse research on the drug in hallucinogenic mushrooms, Johns ...

Credit: Jonathan Giacomini, NC State University With bee populations in decline, a new study offers hope for a relatively simple ...

Credit: Tim Schoon, University of Iowa Imagine a situation where one child is teasing another. While the child doing the ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- With rising demand and dwindling supply, water is perhaps Earth's most critical natural resource. One way to ...

Uncultured microbes--those whose characteristics have never been described because they have not yet been grown in a lab culture--could be ...

Credit: Carrie Rosema Recently, a research team led by Maurizio Pellecchia at the University of California, Riverside, discovered a way ...

Credit: Real Pickles, Valley Lightworks AMHERST, Mass. - University of Massachusetts Amherst food scientists have mapped and characterized microbial populations ...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $218 million in funding for 85 research awards in the important emerging field ...