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Credit: PS Rao. Domesticating plants to grow as crops can turn out to be a double-edged scythe. On one hand,...

Even after years of smoking, the body has a remarkable ability to repair itself. Now in a study appearing in...

Heart disease and heart-related illnesses are a leading cause of death around the world, but treatment options are limited. Now,...

Credit: Foto: Peter Mesenholl Gender perspectives in mathematics, information sciences, natural sciences and technology: The Federal Ministry of Education and...

ITHACA, N.Y. - In an effort to settle the debate about the origin of dog domestication, a technique that uses...

The drugs people inhale, inject or ingest ultimately end up in some form down the toilet. So scientists have started...

Credit: CC Even Charles Darwin, the author of "The Origin of Species", had a problem with species. "I was much...

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips) Some of the world's most beloved plants -- coffee, bananas, potatoes,...

Credit: (K. Hima Nagamanasa, Huan Wang, and Steve Granick. Liquid-Cell Electron Microscopy of Adsorbed Polymers. Advanced Materials (2017) Copyright Wiley-VCH...

Raw broccoli sprouts, a rich source of potential cancer-fighting compounds, have become a popular health food in recent years. But...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The answer to regenerative medicine's most compelling question -- why some organisms...

As schools around the U.S. start back up, so do trips to the doctor's office. But is that raw sore...

Credit: Source: Rodolfo Nogueira The best known sauropod dinosaurs were huge herbivorous creatures, whose brain structures were markedly different from...

Credit: Andrius Pasukonis/Eva Ringler Parental care is widespread in the animal kingdom. Poison frogs are also known to be dedicated...

Credit: Benjamin Lee Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the...

DNA in lake sediment forms a natural archive displaying when various fish species colonized lakes after the glacial period. This...

Credit: Courtesy of Van Andel Research Institute September 20, 2017 (Grand Rapids, Michigan)--Van Andel Research Institute scientist Scott Rothbart, Ph.D.,...

Credit: Advanced Survey Technologies, Fisheries Resources Division, NOAA Fisheries/Southwest Fisheries Science Center West Coast rockfish species in deep collapse only...

Later leaf emergence, earlier leaf loss: A new study of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich shows that the average vegetation periods...

An unexpected discovery has given scientists a greater understanding of an important methane-producing enzyme. A team of researchers at the...