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(PeerJ) In 2014, during a visit to a remote part of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico, ornithologist Dr. Miguel A....

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan -- The uncertain future of oil feedstocks and environmental pressure are forcing the chemical industry...

ANN ARBOR--Fifty-one percent of all opioid medications distributed in the U.S. each year are prescribed to adults with mood disorders...

Under anaerobic conditions, certain bacteria can produce electricity. This behavior can be exploited in microbial fuel cells, with a special...

Stroke is an age-related disease that disproportionately affects women. Although experimental studies have identified several hormonal and genetic factors underlying...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Israel is subjected to sand and dust storms from several directions: northeast from the Sahara,...

The project is headed by Senior Research Associate of the Microorganism Genetics Lab Ayrat Kayumov and funded by Russian Science...

Credit: Ahlquist lab, Morgridge Institute for Research MADISON -- In the fight against the viruses that invade everyday life, seeing...

Credit: Krithi Karanth Bengaluru, India (June 27, 2017) -- There is an urgent need to strengthen human-wildlife conflict management across...

Credit: University of Washington Essential tremor is the world's most common movement disorder, affecting an estimated 7 million people in...

Credit: Image by Dr. LI Yefei Synapses are fundamental building blocks of neural circuits. Synapse formation requires complex regulation involving...

The human brain is nimble. It can reorganize itself to learn new things, catalog memories, and even break old habits....

HANOVER, NH -- A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with...

The intensive management of grasslands is bad for biodiversity. However, a study by the Terrestrial Ecology Research Group at the...

Stem cells are considered biological allrounders because they have the potential to develop into the various body cell types. For...

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- In the world of heavy metal poisoning, arsenic may have found a sidekick...

Credit: Kevin Kohl You'd think desert woodrats already had a lot of adversity. Besides the constant threat of coyotes and...

Credit: Gerald Diebold PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A team of researchers has found a way to detect trace gases down to...

A deeper understanding of the brain's connectivity network of neurons and its relationship to the organ's deep tissue could allow...

New York, NY (June 27, 2017)--Preschoolers from low-income families living in cities that took part in a two-year community-wide intervention...