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The future of the world's coral reefs hangs in the balance, but it is not too late to save them,...

Credit: KAIST KAIST Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering was elected as a...

Credit: Amrita Bhattacharyya FORT COLLINS, COLORADO - Uranium, the radioactive element that fuels nuclear power plants and occurs naturally in...

Credit: Kaiju et. al. Capacitors, electronic components that store and quickly release a charge, play an important role in many...

Credit: MK Nazeeruddin/EPFL Perovskite solar cells promise cheaper and efficient solar energy, with enormous potential for commercialization. But even though...

During the last glacial period - when the ice in the Antarctic was far thicker and extended further offshore than...

No matter how warm it gets outside, most endotherms maintain a reasonably stable internal temperature; if they don't, there's usually...

Bottom Line: A study of Senegalese women showed that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was more likely to develop into cervical...

Credit: Tomoko Nishiyama Nagoya, Japan - A sister chromatid is one half of an identical pair of chromatids formed by...

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Physicians paid by pharmaceutical companies for meals, talks and travel had higher odds of prescribing those...

Fear of death is a fundamental part of the human experience--we dread the possibility of pain and suffering and we...

Credit: Copyright UC Regents 2017 Using computed tomography (CT) to evaluate muscle health may help identify optimal treatments for older...

NEW YORK (June 1, 2017) - A technique to treat an irregular heartbeat that limits or eliminates patients' exposure to...

If these alkaloids are not properly removed in a so-called "debittering process", they can trigger poisoning in humans which affects...

Researchers at The Jackson Laboratory, Cyteir Therapeutics and collaborating institutions have found a way to protect beta cells from destruction...

Boston - Prenatal tobacco exposure is known to have negative short-term impacts including preterm birth, low birth weight and subsequent...

Credit: Elke Barbez/Gregor Mendel Institute LA JOLLA--(June 1, 2017) Once we start coloring our hair, we may be surprised to...

WASHINGTON (June 1, 2017) - New teen drivers ages 16-17 years old are three times as likely as adults to...

(University of Edinburgh) Imaging tools to identify abnormalities that cause heart attacks are to be developed in a £1.8m research...

(Boston)-- Experiencing stress-related mental health issues following deployment exposures increases risk of reduced well-being in other life domains in the...