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Credit: Martin Meijer A fungus that does not attack wood, but preserves it. It sounds strange, but it is possible....

The largest ever study of the mosquito evolutionary tree, going back 195 million years, suggests that present-day climate change could...

(Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)) This year's Swiss Aerosol Award goes to Maria Muñoz. The Empa...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- New research reveals that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus that produces carcinogenic...

In collaboration with the Government of Egypt, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will hold its 14th meeting...

CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Vomit can create huge health concerns and for the more than 2 million people currently living...

Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified a protein that determines the identity and invasive properties of breast cancer...

Credit: HUTAN-KOCP Leipzig/Brunei. Orangutan populations are still declining rapidly, despite claims by the Indonesian Government that things are looking better...

AN 'UNDRUGGABLE' GROUP OF PROTEINS Most FDA-approved small molecule drugs inhibit enzymes - biology's protein machines that catalyze chemical reactions....

A new gene therapy can turn certain brain glial cells into functioning neurons, which in turn could help repair the...

As obesity continues to be the leading cause of deaths world-wide, researchers are working to understand what role genetics play...

StataCorp and Code Ocean announce a partnership enabling researchers to share Stata software code on Code Ocean, a computational reproducibility...

PORTLAND, Ore.--As you walk away from a campfire on a cool autumn night, you quickly feel colder. The same thing...

Credit: (Image credit - Bernhard Ludewig, Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics) PORTLAND, Ore.--Imagine building a machine so advanced and...

Credit: LivAssured A new high-tech bracelet, developed by scientists from the Netherlands detects 85 percent of all severe night-time epilepsy...

Credit: Estonian Research Council/Reimo Rehkli The research group of Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics of Tallinn University of Technology...

Credit: University of Seville How did words or the rain sound inside the Mosque of Cordoba in the time of...

An Oregon State University environmental ethicist and scientists from nine other universities say an international oversight panel is needed to...

Credit: (Copyright, Larisa DeSantis, free to use.) Saber-toothed cats with oral injuries ate softer foods than their uninjured counterparts, who...

Scientists have discovered a drug combination that could halt the progression of fibrosis - a condition believed to be responsible...