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Credit: John Keane, USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station Remote sensing technology has detected what could be a win...

Women with asthma suffer more often from preeclampsia (PE) and run a higher risk of giving birth to underweight babies....

Credit: G. Stahelin, Univeristy of Central Florida Hurricane Irma took a devastating toll on incubating sea turtle nests in the...

BOZEMAN - Two Montana State University researchers in different disciplines have teamed up to tackle the problem of arsenic poisoning,...

Credit: OIST/Steven Aird A bite from a pit viper, locally known as habu, can cause permanent disability and even death....

Credit: Grey Gustafson | KU News Service LAWRENCE -- There are precious few species today in the biodiversity hotspot of...

One of the most economically important fish is shrinking in body weight, length and overall physical size as ocean temperatures...

A new review article supported by a grant offered by Humane Society International has been published in the journal Plos...

Although both men and women gossip, women may be more likely to use gossiping and rumour-mongering as tactics to badmouth...

It's long been known that heart disease develops later in women than men. But the biological reasons why females have...

BOSTON - (Oct. 3, 2017) - If you're one of the two billion people in the world who are over-weight...

The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) today announce the availability of a unique...

Chemists at the University of Basel have been able to show for the first time that anaerobic bacteria can produce...

Credit: Joseph Xu/Senior Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering ARLINGTON, Va.--Traditional leg prosthetics enable amputees to...

Three prominent journalists will discuss the challenges of accurately reporting and presenting the latest science news in a series of...

Credit: Cornelia Spetea Wiklund, University of Gothenburg By developing a symbiotic relationship with fungi, plants not only become more tolerant...

Credit: Carrie Green. Soils keep plants healthy by providing plants with water, helpful minerals, and microbes, among other benefits. But...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Oct. 4, 2017--Researchers have developed a computational model based on available...

Scientists at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at the Mailman School of Public Health report the first...

Credit: The University of Hong Kong Professor Kenneth Mei Yee LEUNG of the Swire Institute of Marine Science and School...