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Credit: My Huynh A tiny snail may offer an alternative to opioids for pain relief. Scientists at the University of...

Selenium is an essential micronutrient obtained from dietary sources such as cereals. The selenium content of foodstuffs largely depends on...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new type of battery developed by scientists at Oregon State University shows promise for sustainable, high-power...

Credit: University of Exeter Rising temperatures could accelerate climate change by reducing the amount of carbon dioxide stored in ponds...

Credit: Image is courtesy of Stephen Elardo. Washington, DC--New work from Carnegie's Stephen Elardo and Anat Shahar shows that interactions...

Annapolis, MD; Feb. 13, 2017 -- Pest ants like the red imported fire ant could be controlled more effectively with...

BOSTON - Many of the toughest decisions faced by cancer patients involve knowing how to use numbers -- calculating risks,...

Credit: John Megahan Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that...

Loading video... Credit: Philip Doherty The winter habits of Britain's basking sharks have been revealed for the first time. Scientists...

Credit: ASU DNA, the stuff of life, may very well also pack quite the jolt for engineers trying to advance...

A new analysis indicates that many cancer survivors change their prescription drug use (including skipping doses or requesting cheaper medications)...

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...