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PORTLAND, OR - Nine years ago, SWOG researchers confirmed a new standard of care for patients with incurable gastrointestinal stromal...

Credit: Jamie Vaudrey, UConn, 2016 A new model released today at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement...

Caltech's Stan Whitcomb, who has been involved with nearly every aspect of the development and ultimate success of the Laser...

Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most...

BOSTON - Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the...

Credit: GBSI WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2017 - One year after the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020...

Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At...

Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer...

Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands...

Credit: © 2017 Tane Sinclair-Taylor Advances in genomic research are helping scientists to reveal how corals and algae cooperate to...

Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently,...

New research from scientists and economists at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and Environmental Defense Fund...

(BOSTON - February 18, 2017) New Research finds that climate change will cause dramatic impacts in the world's fisheries, but...

Credit: Gary Felton, Penn State What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is...

Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Creating tiny muscle-powered robots that can walk or swim by themselves -- or better yet, when prompted...

Credit: courtesy Joe Roman How do you redeem a place like Gitmo, the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay,...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a...

Credit: (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake) Home to an immense diversity of marine life,...

Gene drives are a rapidly developing field of research that holds promise for addressing persistent problems, such as eradicating mosquito-borne...