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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...

Credit: Jonson et al 2017 Since the late 1990s the share of diesel cars in the EU has risen to...

Painful side effects from cancer medicines could be tackled with a drug that eases the effects of jetlag, research suggests....

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found that thirdhand-smoke (THS)...

Insects and plants have an important ancient defence mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their...

Credit: Scheme Lab Scheme Lab, a biotech startup incubated at the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Technology (CIETEC), in São...

Credit: Michelle Lampe/Wolf Science Center A good example of the connection between cause and effect, is that an object which...

Credit: University of Toronto Mississauga The idea of being bitten by a nearly toothless modern frog or salamander sounds laughable,...

These are the findings of a representative study recently conducted by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on...