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Credit: Cornell Lab of Ornithology ITHACA, N.Y. - Human activities could change the pace of evolution, similar to what occurred...

Credit: VIIBRE, Vanderbilt University An interdisciplinary team of Vanderbilt University researchers has received a two-year, $2-million federal grant to develop...

New research is set to change the textbook understanding of how plants breathe. Previous explanations of how plants take up...

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 21, 2017 - Expanding the high-dose influenza vaccine recommendation to include middle-aged adults with chronic health conditions may...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Chronic tissue inflammation resulting from obesity is an underlying cause of insulin resistance and type...

Credit: World Scientific The 1980s witnessed technologies focus on reducing costs and improving performance. However, at the turn of 21st...

Credit: UC San Diego Health Checkpoint inhibitor-based immunotherapy has been shown to be very effective in recurrent and metastatic head...

Credit: BES Photo Archive (Millbrook, NY) Through a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study...

Credit: Professor Shinichiro Sawa Orchids are loved by gardeners around the world but are notoriously difficult to cultivate. Japanese researchers...

Credit: © F. Chen Exceptionally preserved trilobite fossils from China, dating back to more than 500 million years ago, have...

Credit: UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI - Researchers at the UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and...

Beta cells release insulin in your blood, but when you suffer from Type 1 diabetes, you hardly have any of...

(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) How did Neanderthals grow? Does modern man develop in the same way as Homo neanderthalensis...

The good news: Recognizing the incredible value of forests in providing habitat, storing carbon dioxide, purifying water and more, people...

Making a bold commitment to develop groundbreaking approaches for treating brain diseases and injuries, The University of Texas at San...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--With a new $5.5 million, five-year federal grant, a Case Western Reserve University researcher is...

Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- The search for biology on neighbor planet Mars won't play out like a Hollywood...

Credit: Flower images: Andreas Fleischmann, Trap images: Plant Biomechanics Group Freiburg Bladderworts (Utricularia spp. Lentibulariaceae) are plants with many superlatives:...

Credit: University of Bristol Researchers at the University of Bristol have been taking a close-up look at the biting mouthparts...

Many research groups have recently explored human adaptation and successfully identified candidate genes to high altitude living among three major...