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Credit: Tyrrell et al (2017) The width of a bird's visual binocular field is partially determined by the size of...

UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony,...

Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic...

Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from...

Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons,...

Credit: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other...

Discoveries of hormones related to weight and appetite in the '90s helped spur a search for obesity treatments targeting those...

Credit: Photo by Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University Growing up on an island or mainland location can shape the...

Credit: Mary Drewnoski It makes sense that a 1,200 pound Angus cow would place quite a lot of pressure on...

Credit: Dr Mark Lee 27th March 2017; Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the...

(De Gruyter Open) Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion...

Credit: Western University, Ontario, Canada For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun...

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 29, 2017) -- Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Nearly 50 years into the "war" on cancer, doctors possess weapons that once would have...