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Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Deforestation remains the biggest threat to animals that call the rain forest...

Credit: Garvan Institute of Medical Research A naturally occurring hormone could help make chemotherapy much more effective for many Australians...

Credit: Nemours Children's Health System Zika virus, long feared for its severe effects on pregnant mothers and unborn babies, may...

Credit: VA photo by Jeff Bowen, for illustrative purposes only Regular cancer screenings can lower the chance of death from...

Credit: Scott Schrage, University of Nebraska-Lincoln In 1977, researcher Rudolf Thauer proposed a theoretical ceiling on the amount of hydrogen...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 25, 2018) - The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences...

Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The reproductive history of the unisexual, ladies-only salamander species is...

Credit: Suel Lab, UC San Diego It's the way we end up with a fresh cup of coffee from a...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical...

Homing pigeons use familiar smells to navigate their way across hundreds of kilometers of unfamiliar territory. Researchers have now confirmed...

Credit: Dr. Freek Vonk Researchers at Swansea University's College of Science are part of an international team that has discovered...

Credit: Genevieve Ali Add just enough fertilizer, and crops thrive. Add too much, and you may end up with contaminated...

Infection from the globally prevalent parasite Toxoplasma gondii may increase a person's likelihood of pursuing entrepreneurial and business-related activities, new...

NEW YORK, NY -- This week, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced a $1M grant to the New York...

Darwin, Australia: A team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has published results supporting the need for...

A team of tiny molecules that work together to make cancer cells less aggressive has been discovered by Australian researchers....

Credit: Loïc Dupré & Javier Rey-Barroso (Vienna, July 25, 2018) In order to move, a body needs a strong scaffold....

Credit: Fossil lizard images courtesy of Nicholas Edwards and Wang Yuan. A newly published experimental protocol, involving University of Bristol...

Taking water and ripping it apart into hydrogen and oxygen could form the basis of artificial photosynthetic devices that could...

People are often notified about poor air quality by weather apps, and this happens frequently in urban areas, where levels...