Biology

The TAMEST Shale Task Force report is an independent, comprehensive review of scientific research on the impacts of shale oil...

A team of researchers led by the University of California San Diego has identified for the first time what drives...

Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Annapolis, MD; June 19, 2017--As concerns over Zika virus have grown since 2015,...

Credit: © 2017 KAUST Materials called transition-metal carbides have remarkable properties that open new possibilities in water desalination and wastewater...

WASHINGTON (June 16, 2017) -- Pulsed cavitation ultrasound can be used to remotely soften human degenerative calcified biosprosthetic valves and...

Washington, DC - June 16, 2017 - Canadian researchers have generated both novel and existing antibiotic resistance mechanisms on experimental...

Credit: Courtesy of Lu Hu MISSOULA - University of Montana scientists will fly straight into the smoke of western wildfires...

Professor Rajeshwar Dayal Tyagi of Centre Eau Terre Environnement at INRS received the Outstanding Scientist Award from the International Bioprocessing...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system for service vehicles that could reduce emissions and save companies...

Credit: University of Basel, Biozentrum Many bacteria are armed with nano-spearguns, which they use to combat unwelcome competitors or knockout...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- For the roughly 7 percent of adults who live with atopic dermatitis, a common form of eczema,...

Heidelberg, June 16, 2017 - EMBO announces today that 65 outstanding life scientists have been elected to its membership, joining...

Credit: Yuri Mazei An International team from China University of Geosciences, University of York and Lomonosov Moscow State University have...

The substance ciguatoxin is only found in fish from tropical and subtropical seas. For some years now, cases of ciguatera...

Credit: University of Notre Dame Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes...

Researchers from the University of York and the Quadram Institute have unlocked the genetic secrets of plant cell walls, which...

Credit: DTU/DTU Biosustain To win the war against antibiotic resistant super bugs, scientists seek to find the origin of resistance...

URBANA, Ill. - In the preschool years, children begin to learn from their environment about self-regulation--both in regards to food...

Credit: Casey Holliday COLUMBIA, Mo. - The skulls of alligators protect their brains, eyes and sense organs while producing some...

Credit: 2017, JCI Insight DURHAM, N.C. - Recent research on Parkinson's disease has focused on the gut-brain connection, examining patients'...