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Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. - March 28, 2018 - The West Greenland Ice Sheet melted at a dramatically...

Mandatory nutrition policies could be a valuable tool in helping high school students to lower their sugar intake, a University...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A new discovery opens the possibility of developing a novel way to fight ovarian cancer....

Tucson, AZ, and New York, NY - March 28, 2018 - The Critical Path Institute (C-Path), together with CHDI Foundation,...

A test that detects antibodies against Zika virus in samples of blood serum with high specificity - and hence a...

Credit: Amit Jhala Ragweed, its pollen potent to allergy sufferers, might be more than a source of sneezes. In the...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Mothers with mitochondrial DNA mutations often give birth to children who face incurable and fatal illnesses. But a...

Researchers have discovered a new role for protein vibrations in controlling the transformation of sunshine into useful energy. The study...

Credit: Wayne State University DETROIT -- The Barth Syndrome Foundation recently announced awardees from its 2017 grant cycle. Miriam Greenberg,...

Credit: SFU A new 53 million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly discovered at B.C.'s McAbee fossil bed site bears a...

Credit: Christian Sidor/University of Washington After a great mass extinction shook the world about 252 million years ago, animal life...

What makes particles self-assemble into complex biological structures? Often, this phenomenon is due to the competition between forces of attraction...

COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the wake of the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in which studies confirmed lead contamination...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-or the rheumatic fever...

Credit: Image: ANU. An Archaeologist at The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered a prehistoric Bronze-Age barrow, or burial mound,...

Credit: Virginia Tech Fog harvesting may look like whimsical work. After all, installing giant nets along hillsides and mountaintops to...

Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists jointly with Professor Artem Oganov of Skoltech and the Moscow Institute of Physics...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma professor, Cameron Homeyer, is a recipient of a NASA Research Opportunities in...

(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) In a study of the genetic structure and population dynamics of a unique breed of cattle that is...

A new study indicates that patients with alcohol-related liver cancer often do not live as long as patients with liver...