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Credit: (c) Shaohua Dong The species was discovered in Myanmar in 2010 by Ngwe Lwin, a local scientist working for...

Credit: Pablo Ross / UC Davis For more than 35 years, scientists have tried to isolate embryonic stem cells in...

Credit: MPI f. Ornithology In zebra finches, sperm velocity and morphology and hence reproductive success strongly depend on a specific...

Credit: Elwood Mullins, Vanderbilt University One of the most potent toxins known acts by welding the two strands of the...

Credit: Kobe University A causative gene for a highly common type of hearing loss (sensorineural hearing loss, or SNHL) has...

Turning the art of a trefoil knot into polymer science is no easy process, but researchers at Case Western Reserve...

Credit: Pablo Ross / UC Davis For more than 35 years, scientists have tried to isolate embryonic stem cells in...

Credit: MPI for Plant Breeding Research Some plants can meet their nitrogen requirements by obtaining it from the atmosphere. To...

Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA UCLA scientists report the first evidence that a gene outside the brain controls the ability to rebound...

Credit: Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis The Public Strawberry Breeding Program at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues in California and...

By triggering a process called autophagy — in which cells literally engulf their own insides — researchers from Drexel University...

BOSTON – Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School have conducted a clinical trial comparing the safety and efficacy...

Credit: Yan et al Science Robotics 2017 Tiny remotely operated robots could be designed to diagnose and treat illness in...

Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A fertilized human egg develops into multiple tissues, organs and about 200 distinct cell types....

Credit: Galen Halverson One of the big mysteries in the scientific world is how the ice sheets of Antarctica formed...

Credit: Washington State University Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. – A Washington State University researcher has developed a way to reduce the...

Expedition HE-408 (RV Heincke) (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Kristina Baer) As a gigantic carbon sink, the ocean has taken up about...

Credit: Sophie Moszuti New research shows that red-footed tortoises can remember the location of their favourite food sources and the...

LA JOLLA, CA – August 1, 2016 – A new international collaboration involving scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)...

As one of the most successful intracellular pathogens, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) causes 8 million cases of tuberculosis and 1.3 million...