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When it comes to health, a person's sex can play a role. More women in the U.S. have autoimmune diseases...

Credit: Copyright: Juan J. Nogueira, University of Vienna To fight cancer, every year thousands of chemical substances are screened for...

Credit: IDIBELL Our genome is made up of 6,000 million pieces of DNA that combine four "flavors": A, C, G...

Credit: Steve Kroiss What bothers a plant? Why are some plants rare while others are common? Are the rare plants...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $11 million in available funding...

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 21, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

Credit: Norbert Kamjunke Salmon lead a fairly varied life. The adult fish live in the sea but swim upstream into...

Loading video... Credit: Akio Ishiguro The research group of Professor Akio Ishiguro and Assistant Professor Dai Owaki of Tohoku University...

Credit: Washington State University Technology being developed at Washington State University provides a non-invasive approach for diagnosing prostate cancer and...

Mangos, bananas and oranges have usually travelled long distances by the time they reach our shops. They are picked, packaged,...

Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society There's a reason why farmers wear protective gear when applying organophosphate pesticides. The substances are...

Credit: Hideaki Takahashi In ATP hydrolysis, water is used to split apart adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to create adenosine diphosphate (ADP)...

Credit: Kyoto University/Eiri Ono Kyoto, Japan -- Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents...

Credit: Credit: the authors. BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), an optical imaging tool for...

Credit: EDF A set of Google Street View mapping cars, specially equipped with cutting-edge methane analyzers, are allowing Colorado State...

"Technophobes" -- people who fear robots, artificial intelligence and new technology that they don't understand -- are much more likely...

Finding and fixing natural gas leaks is a persistent challenge for utilities across the country. In addition to the serious...

Credit: University of Basel, Department of Physics Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only...

Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering By the time someone realizes they damaged a ligament, tendon or cartilage...

Ann Arbor, MI, March 22, 2017 - Discovery of the BRCA genetic mutation in the mid-90s represented a breakthrough in...