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Credit: Credit: 'Jones et al., Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1701797.' BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In 2004, pneumonia killed more than 2 million...

Tokyo Medical and Dental University(TMDU) research team demonstrated that osteocytes have a crucial role in orthodontic tooth movement as the...

Credit: Ahmad S. Khalil A common thread ties seemingly unlinked disorders like Alzheimer's disease and type II diabetes together. This...

(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Obesity leads to the release of cytokines into the bloodstream...

Credit: Brian Patton/Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine HUNTINGTON, W.Va.-- The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of...

Credit: Photo: Eshagh Dorafshan Researchers at Umeå and Stockholm universities in Sweden and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in...

Credit: David Shean/University of Washington Until recently, glaciers in the United States have been measured in two ways: placing stakes...

Credit: Bernard Heymann, Ph.D., NIAMS Laboratory of Structural Biology Research, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National...

Credit: IOF Today, on the occasion of World Osteoporosis Day, the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has issued the first edition...

Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is a Commissioner and author of The Lancet Commission on Pollution and...

Credit: Arc Centre of Excellence Coral Reef Studies One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine...

(Portland, Ore.) October 17, 2017 - Oregon shore crabs exhibit risky behavior when they're exposed to the antidepressant Prozac, making...

WASHINGTON - The ocean plays a critical role in climate and weather, serving as a massive reservoir of heat and...

Credit: Berkeley Lab The energy and climate benefits of cool roofs have been well established: By reflecting rather than absorbing...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Environmental health scientist Alicia Timme-Laragy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a...

Credit: Nikolas Hagemann/University of Tübingen For more than 100 years, biochar, a carbon-rich, charcoal-like substance made from oxygen-deprived plant or...

The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms...

Credit: Danny Longman Human brains are expensive - metabolically speaking. It takes lot of energy to run our sophisticated grey...

WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 20, 2017 -- The American Institute of Physics announced today the winners of its 2017 Science Communication...

Credit: University of Calgary Many people associate the word "bacteria" with something dirty and disgusting. Dr. Pere Santamaria disagrees. Called...