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PORTLAND, Ore. (Oct. 6, 2017) -- Live phone calls significantly outperform text messages and letters as a way to remind...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Oct. 11, 2017) -- News flash....hot flashes aren't the only bothersome symptom of the menopause transition. Many postmenopausal...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 11, 2017) - If you're postmenopausal, you shouldn't be bleeding. The very definition of menopause is having...

Credit: Rachel E. McNeish Restoration projects to remove invasive plants can make a positive impact on native plant species. But...

Credit: Louise Chilvers Getting caught in fishing nets is a major cause of death for the increasingly endangered New Zealand...

Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, MO, October 11, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one...

Credit: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, researchers at Western...

Credit: Aurélie Porcheron Aspects of facial contrast, a measure of how much facial features stand out in the face, decrease...

Jackson, Wyoming -- Pumas, long known as solitary carnivores, are more social than previously thought, according to a new Panthera...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - A research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), funded by two significant...

Leading scientists from Japan in the fields of medical science and industrial science will speak at the UTokyo NY Conference...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Oct. 11, 2017) To have a good phone conversation, you need a good cellular...

Credit: Julien Kimmig | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- To the untrained eye, it looks like a flower crudely etched...

Credit: Dingying Shan / Chenji Zhang / Penn State A flexible, biodegradable optical fiber that can deliver light into the...

The albatross is one of the most efficient travelers in the animal world. One species, the wandering albatross, can fly...

Dr Jamie Seymour from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) said a typical scorpion predator would be...

The damage caused to beaches by extreme storms on exposed energetic coastlines and the rate at which they recover can...

Canadian researchers have pinpointed a new gene associated with peanut allergy, offering further evidence that genes play a role in...

Protocols are "recipes" used in laboratory research to support the design and implementation of reproducible experiments. The step-by-step instructions help...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...