Tiny particles in air pollution have been associated with cardiovascular disease, which can lead to premature death. But how particles ...

Add another typical component of the Italian way of life to the long list of foods characterizing one of the ...

Nanodiamonds - synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size - have recently attracted considerable attention because of the ...

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely used pesticide can ...

Credit: University of Basel, Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences The body's immune system performs essential functions, such as ...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists write in Nature Communications it may be possible to therapeutically fine tune a constantly ...

WASHINGTON (April 26, 2017)--A new study examining medical provider attitudes toward prescribing PrEP to prevent HIV found that those who ...

(Aarhus University) Newborn humpback whales 'whisper' to their mothers to avoid being overheard by killer whales, researchers have discovered. The ...

Geneva, Switzerland, April 26, 2017 - Lung cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors may be at increased risk of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 25, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...

Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long ...

Credit: © Jean-Marc Alliot - IRIT (CNRS/INP Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Université Toulouse Capitole). The ELO system, which ...

Credit: Gray Lab Our bodies are made of biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, fats and sugars. These biomolecules are folded ...

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of the Department of Energy) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, ...

Credit: Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Cancer is often able to craftily outwit the best techniques modern medicine has ...

Credit: Peter Frey/UGA Athens, Ga. - High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods ...

Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to ...

Twenty-three experts involved in the study "Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity," recently published in PLoS Biology, debunked the ...

Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 24, 2017-- A new computer modeling study from Los Alamos National Laboratory is aimed ...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Depression 03W formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on April ...