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Credit: Ayrton Vollet-Neto / University of São Paulo Queens of stingless bee species (Meliponini) face a reproductive dilemma. If they...

Credit: AIP Publishing WASHINGTON, D.C., August 29, 2017 -- There might be a new and improved way to rid contaminated...

Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly;...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A natural process that occurs during photosynthesis could lead to the design of more efficient artificial...

For the first time, scientists have completed a detailed study of many of the proteins in bowel cancer cells. Scientists...

Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics...

By combining new system-biological analyses and advanced data analysis, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have been able to monitor the maturation...

One key property to evaluate the prospects of any shale oil or gas is its total organic carbon (TOC) richness....

Credit: David Hirsch Researchers have identified a set of genes that help control early drought response in a popular global...

Biomedical engineering researchers at Case Western Reserve University are refining more than 15 years of work on an electrical nerve-block...

Credit: Zookeys Journal Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare...

Our bodies, with all their different features and variations, are the result of well-orchestrated processes that dictate what and how...

Credit: Photos provided by Doug Mahoney's lab Immunotherapy is an emerging field in the global fight against cancer, even though...

Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are all diseases that can be traced to...

An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent...

Although common opinion holds that exposure to pesticides increases adverse birth outcomes, the existing body of scientific evidence is ambiguous....

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Two species of songbirds that once made a home in the Bahamas likely...

Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) DNA is the computer code that programs every event in the body. Despite the importance...

Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science...

India is a second largest producer of leather, and being so, leather production and dyeing significantly contribute to pollution of...