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The saga of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) in southern Bahia is part of Brazil's economic and cultural history. Brazil was once...

Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. -Pediatric nutrition research has sh own the important effects of early-life...

Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working with Boeing, NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...January 19, 2017 - An innovative, new system that uses smartwatch devices and software to verify handwritten signatures and...

Credit: Lukas Muechler Researchers at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Zurich have proposed a theory-based approach to characterize a...

Credit: Ken Forbus A Northwestern University team developed a new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...

Credit: Jason Ching/University of Washington One of Alaska's most abundant freshwater fish species is altering its breeding patterns in response...

Credit: Erik Sturkell A new research article, with lead authors from the University of Gothenburg, gives indications of the best...

The ability to dispose of proteins that are either aberrant or (in the worst case) toxic is fundamental to a...

(Umea University) The views among physicians and the general public when it comes to deciding whether to withhold or withdraw...

Most people are concerned about the prospect of their social media accounts being hacked, but a new study finds that...

The same mechanical principles underlie whether the DVD player skips and whether the most advanced surgical robot will rotate its...

Credit: Wolfgang Däuble / CeMM (Vienna, 19 January 2017) Genome editing using CRISPR/Cas9 "gene scissors" is a powerful tool for...

Credit: University of Nottingham Engineers at The University of Nottingham are developing lightweight automotive components using new additive manufacturing processes...

Credit: MIPT's Press Office Researchers at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed a theory that gives the...

New research from a beach-roaming biomechanics engineer paints a surprisingly industrious picture of limpets -- the marine snails that are...

Credit: Andrew Grieshop Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have found that while...

Credit: photo/©: Georg Schneider, JGU As self-evident as it is that matter exists, its origins are just as mysterious. According...