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In the absence of carbon, life on Earth cannot exist. Yet much of how this fundamental element circulates throughout the...

Credit: Wake Forest University Hidden in plain sight - that's how researchers describe their discovery of a new genus of...

A critical survival decision for all animals is when, where and how to escape from a looming threat. A Northwestern...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to...

The latest outbreaks of emerging, dangerous pathogens, such as Ebola, MERS-CoV or Zika, emphasise the importance of the rapid development...

A plant-based, Mediterranean-style diet has been shown to provide the same medical benefits for treating laryngopharyngeal reflux as popular reflux...

Credit: Travis R. Ruch and Joanne N. Engel, University of California, San Francisco Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring...

Weed control in agricultural landscapes has been dominated by herbicides for over 75 years. Like the advent of antibiotics, herbicides...

Credit: Joo-Hyeon Lee (Boston Children's Hospital/Cambridge Stem Cell Institute UK) To stay healthy, our lungs have to maintain two key...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have invented a fast, affordable way for developing communities to test their drinking water...

Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a "cloud" of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan,...

Research on birds in northern Europe reveals that there is an ongoing considerable species turnover due to climate change and...

Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / HHU Düsseldorf / Gunnar Schröder Jülich / Düsseldorf / Hamburg / Maastricht, 7 September 2017 -...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A wagging tail is often associated with dogs' emotions, but the side-to-side motion may...

Compared to smallpox or typhoid, malaria is proving one of the most challenging human diseases to eradicate - and so...

Credit: Lab of Margaret McFall-Ngai, Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii Imagine a club scene--a bouncer at...

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2016, this was the most common causative pathogen for death by infectious diseases....

GAITHERSBURG, MD - Sept. 7, 2017 - Bo Li, Director General Director of the CFDA's National Institute for Food and...

Credit: Image modified from Eliason et al. (2017) PRSB. When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of...

Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the rise for many years. Between 2 and 8% of...