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Views on human age need to be revisited. The value of adulthood as a period of certainty has declined for...

Helping other people in need is a foundation of our society. It is intuitive to believe that we help others...

Credit: Greta Keenan As the old adage goes, 'two heads are better than one'. With the development of new technologies...

Credit: Buchberger team Toxic substances, nutrient shortage, viral infection, heat and many other events trigger stress responses in cells. In...

Scientists have found a connection between bacteria in the gut and antitumor immune responses in the liver. Their study, published...

Credit: Adam Levine Data from the 2014 Ebola virus outbreak at two Sierra Leone facilities reveal daily usage rates for...

All plants require an adequate supply of inorganic nutrients, such as fixed nitrogen (usually in the form of ammonia or...

Credit: Georgia Ward-Fear Boldness correlates with the mating success, but not body size or sex, of yellow-spotted monitor lizards roaming...

Understanding the evolution of a 400 million-year-old anti-viral protein that first emerged in marine life, is helping researchers get the...

Credit: Annegret Grimm-Seyfarth, UFZ The world of reptiles may well include creatures that are more spectacular than the Gehyra variegata,...

Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - In Africa as well as across other continents, several indigenous crop species have...

Credit: SaiPadma Priya A team of researchers in Japan developed a synthetic molecular code to script gene activation. The process,...

Xanthomonas citri, the bacterium that causes citrus canker, a disease responsible for major damage to lemon and orange groves in...

Credit: Fuentes In "How Humans and Apes Are Different and Why It Matters," published in the Journal of Anthropological Research,...

Credit: Kostantinos Stamoulis Unsustainable fishing has depleted coastal fisheries worldwide, threatening food security and cultural identity for many coastal and...

Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA UCLA scientists have identified specific gut bacteria that play an essential role in the anti-seizure effects of...

The brain's ability to form new neural connections, called neuroplasticity, is crucial to recovery from some types of brain injury,...

Credit: Harry Marshall Young mongooses learn lifelong habits from role models rather than inheriting them from genetic parents, new research...

Today, only the eldest inhabitants of the Danube Delta recall that, in the past, you could skate on the river...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, May 24, 2018 -- Chameleons are nature's most talented masters of color. They use...