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COLUMBIA, Mo. - The majority of pregnancy losses occur during the first trimester, when biological communication between the embryo and...

PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers are undertaking an industrious investigation into the effects of global warming on plants....

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS The CO2 level in Mars' primitive atmosphere 3.5 billion years ago was too low for sediments, such as...

Credit: Video courtesy of Lori Sanders/Harvard University Nature does amazing things with limited design materials. Grass, for example, can support...

Credit: EvergladesRestoration.gov The Florida Everglades' cypress swamps, mangrove trees and "river of grass" cover the southern 20 percent of the...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 6, 2017)--More than 400 original scientific studies of minimally invasive, image-guided treatments that may solve some of today's...

Credit: Colin Simpfendorfer Conventional wisdom holds that sharks can't be harvested in a sustainable manner because they are long-lived animals....

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone Carlos when it was affecting La...

Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State When Penn State decided to convert its two power plants from their historic use of...

Loading video... Credit: UHN (TORONTO, Canada - Feb. 6, 2017) - Princess Margaret Cancer Centre scientists have discovered a distinct...

Rochester Institute of Technology faculty member Nathan Cahill was named a Rising Researcher by SPIE, the international society for optics...

Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips) COLLEGE STATION -- Humans face hundreds of decisions every day. But...

Credit: WHOI Geodynamics Program The Earth's mantle -- the layer between the crust and the outer core -- is home...

Credit: Illustration by Michael Osadciw/University of Rochester The concept behind microbial fuel cells, which rely on bacteria to generate an...

Credit: Anjali Chandrashekar CHICAGO-Theorists and scientists conducting experiments that recreate matter as it existed in the very early universe are...

Credit: Photo by Lane Deacon / UNC Health Care. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine...

Credit: Structura Biotechnology Inc A new set of machine learning algorithms developed by U of T researchers that can generate...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center A new method has been found for identifying therapeutic targets in cancers lacking specific key...

Loading video... Credit: Michigan Medicine A new approach to the practice of surgical pathology for brain tumor patients could make...

Credit: Photo by Allison Perry/University of Kentucky HOUSTON -- (Feb. 6, 2017) -- Chemists scouring Appalachia for exotic microorganisms that...