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For some of the powerful drugs used to fight infection and cancer, there’s only a small difference between a healing...

Diarrhea is no longer the killer it was in the mid-20th century, when an estimated 4.5 million children under age...

AMHERST, Mass. – In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and...

Oh, we don’t have to worry about that area. They have red pivots.Credit: Mikaela Cherry / ACS ES&T Water / Scott...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7, 2022 – "I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now."...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), December 7, 2022 – For the eighth year, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space,...

To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal, the Montreal Botanical Garden...

KINGSTON, R.I. – Dec. 7, 2022 – University of Rhode Island entomologist Jannelle Couret is tipping the way we understand...

The ability of tropical forests to grow and store carbon is limited, in part, by herbivory. Insects and other animals...

Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record by one million yearsCredit: Beth Zaikenjpg Discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks record...

Autoimmune diseases are thought to be the result of mistaken identity. Immune cells on patrol, armed and ready to defend...

New research shows that the closest bat virus relatives of the human Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus efficiently bind to...

Modern eukaryotic cells contain numerous so-called organelles, which once used to be independent bacteria. In order to understand how these...

HARWELL, UK (7 December 2022) The Faraday Institution has today launched the Battery Parameter eXchange (BPX), an open standard for...

A £1.7m laboratory building which will investigate infectious diseases has opened at the University of Warwick – helping to tackle...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP) in Beijing and the...

In search of new biomarkers for nutrition and health studies, a research team from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic, an important discovery about the development of nematodes — elongated...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7, 2022 – Type a few words into a text-to-image model, and you'll end up with a...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 7, 2022 – In the Mojave Desert, the sun beats down on the ground and makes pockets...