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Credit: Florida Atlantic University Sharks come in all shapes and sizes and perhaps the most unusual is the hammerhead shark,...

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Chemistry is a complex dance of atoms. Subtle shifts in position and shuffles of electrons...

Credit: © 2017 Till Rothig and Anna Roik Red Sea surgeonfish use metabolically diverse giant bacteria to digest different types...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 10, 2017 -- You can learn a lot from eggs. The versatile, delicious,...

Credit: Alex Yelich/University of Arizona In 2016, farmers worldwide planted more than 240 million acres (98 million hectares) of genetically...

Credit: WFU / Ken Bennett Ever put an unripe avocado into a bag with a banana to make it guacamole-ready?...

Credit: IGDB The striking capacity for plants to adapt their growth and development to an ever-changing environment is mediated by...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 10, 2017--The "first food system" in the U.S., which calls...

While the policy debate surrounding crude oil transportation costs has emphasized accidents and spills, a new study by Carnegie Mellon...

Credit: Harriet McHale/SHSU HUNTSVILLE, TX (10-10-17) -- A home-brewing technique used to extract morphine from unwashed poppy seeds can produce...

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 10, 2017 - A proposal to humanize several mouse genes for research into Alzheimer's disease has spurred...

Credit: Photo credit: Sunny Dickerson, Bowling Green State University The conditions in Lake Erie continue to pose several health risks...

Credit: Victor O. Leshyk, website: victorleshyk.com Mass extinctions were followed by periods of low diversity in which certain new species...

Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington received a $1.4 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of...

Credit: Sarah Pack Fast-track research focused on developing a new gene-modifying sickle cell disease treatment at the Medical University of...

The great ocean currents with their immense energy transport have a decisive influence on the atmosphere and thus the climate....

Induced pluripotent stem cells--stem cell-like cells that have been reprogrammed from normal body cells--are a promising avenue of regenerative medicine,...

(Washington) - A Washington, D.C. symposium highlighting research in an expanding field of science - the Microbiology of the Built...

Credit: N/A Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted - in...

Credit: Photo by Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - When it comes to birth control, many males turn to two...