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Credit: Copyright: ICRISAT Plant diversity and adaptation to different climatic conditions -- especially important in the era of global climate...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically...

Montreal, Sept. 18, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have discovered a way to...

Credit: Texas A&M AgriLife Research DALLAS -- Texas A&M AgriLife Research scientists have discovered a ribonucleic acid, or RNA, that...

New Haven, Conn. -- Scientists have uncovered two closely related cytokines -- molecules involved in cell communication and movement --...

The critical size for schoolchildren is roughly a diameter of 40 mm, as a hard sugar ball of this size...

Credit: G. A. Miller TORONTO, ON - Though you might not think of ants as formidable bodyguards, some do an...

Credit: The Roslin Institute Fresh insights into the genetic code of sheep could aid breeding programmes to improve their health...

Atrazine, widely used as a weedkiller, is known to have harmful effects on aquatic wildlife and presents a risk to...

Alison Butler has never met Canadian chemist and philanthropist Alfred Bader, but they have something important in common. Harvard-educated Bader...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science To the reasons that chemotherapy sometimes does not work, we can now add one more:...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, Sept. 18, 2017 -- A new study has demonstrated the potential to...

A team led by University of Iowa researchers has identified a gene linked to rare, often fatal kidney-related birth defects....

Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University Biochemical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University have used sequences of DNA molecules to induce...

Credit: Kent State University The mental and physical stress on individuals caring for elderly loved ones with chronic and terminal...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Mountain climbers and endurance athletes are not the only ones to benefit from altitude training...

Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- If you're like most people, you don't spend much time thinking about...

Neuroscientists from Higher School of Economics and Charité University Clinic in Berlin have come up with a new multivariate method...

Credit: The Morton Arboretum If you had been in northern Canada 45 million years ago, you might have encountered the...