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(PeerJ) The True's beaked whale is a deep-diving mammal so rarely seen that it often defies recognition at sea by...

Research into a genetic mutation causing some men to be infertile shows that an important protein in the sperm that...

Credit: ©UNIGE The terahertz waves span frequency ranges between the infrared spectrum (used, for example, for night vision) and gigahertz...

A protective mechanism that allows fruit flies to lay fewer eggs in response to bacterial infection is explained in a...

Lugano, 7 March 2017 - ESMO, the leading European organisation for medical oncology, has announced it will take over the...

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Víctor Moreno,...

Credit: Parichehr Saranjampour, LSU The Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, lists about 65 chemicals as "toxic pollutants" under the Clean...

Credit: University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. - For years, parents of children with high blood lead concentrations have been advised...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of techonology Regeneration is an inherent property of life. However, the potential to regenerate differs across species:...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Treatments for childhood cancers have improved to the point that 5-year survival rates are...

A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for...

Loading video... Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused...

Credit: Nick Dentamaro / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a...

Credit: Mohammad Khasawneh BINGHAMTON, NY- Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads...

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 6, 2017) -- Studies have shown that hazardous waste sites have the potential...

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University and biomedical researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Magee-Womens Research...

Credit: Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have--in just two years--nearly doubled the number of...

Credit: UIC/ALEXANDER YARIN The bubbles that form on a heated surface create a tiny recoil when they leave it, like...

Credit: Julius Lab, UCSF Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by "listening"...

PULLMAN, Wash. - A meeting in a forest between a biologist and a mathematician could lead to thicker, faster growing...