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Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) and the University of Münster (WWU) have purified and visualized the 'Cyclic Electron...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Red plums. Green melons. Purple figs. Ripe fruits come in an array of greens, yellows, oranges, browns,...

Credit: University of Copenhagen Science projects within controversial fields such as synthetic biology could benefit from experimenting with communication settings...

(New York, NY - September 24, 2018) -- Researchers at Mount Sinai have discovered that an antimicrobial protein found in...

Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute LA JOLLA , CALIF. - Sept. 24, 2018 - Unlike most cells in...

Coral reefs have long faced problems like overfishing, global warming and pollution -- but they're also threatened by how slow...

Credit: Elizabeth Archie, University of Notre Dame The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced 29 awards in support of Understanding the...

Credit: Wei Lü and Juan Du GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (September 24, 2018) -- A team led by Van Andel Research...

Diets high in carbohydrates reduce body weight and body fat and improve insulin function in overweight individuals, according to a...

Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH UC Davis researchers announce in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this...

Credit: Rusterholz et al., JNeurosci (2018) Some patterns of electrical activity generated by the brain during sleep are inherited, according...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Melbourne researchers have discovered a way to halt the invasion of the toxoplasmosis-causing...

Children, like adults, can improve their response to difficult tasks by the power of group work, new research led by...

Credit: University of Nevada, Reno RENO, Nev. - Mountain snowpack is a primary source of water for the arid western...

Credit: Clemson University A team that has included more than 85 researchers from three South Carolina universities is receiving $2...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A new study suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand...

Credit: Caspar M. Schwiedrzik Every five seconds we close our eyes and blink to moisten them. During this brief moment...

For the first time, researchers have developed a data set quantifying what the social cost of carbon--the measure of the...

Credit: Akane Kubota For angiosperms -- or flowering plants -- one of the most important decisions facing them each year...

Researchers have developed a genome editing tool for the potential treatment of mitochondrial diseases: serious and often fatal conditions which...