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We all know that when it rains, plants grow. When it doesn't, they don't. However, new research led by plant...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2016 -- The origins of life on Earth are still shrouded in...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have conducted the first study of its kind, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy...

Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey Reporting this week (Wednesday Nov. 23) in the journal Nature an international team...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject...

Check out these newsworthy studies from the November 23, 2016, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in obtaining the full text...

Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award...

Research is underway at Rochester Institute of Technology that will give scientists a better understanding of the vitreous humor, or...

MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have...

Credit: Ole Wendroth. Soil isn't one size fits all. It may look the same under your feet - but under...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA/MODIS Rapid Response Team Satellites are keeping track of late-season Tropical Storm Otto as it threatens Central America....

Since 1980, the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer, has nearly tripled, and obesity related...

A naturally occurring predatory bacterium is able to work with the immune system to clear multi-drug resistant Shigella infections in...

Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In our guts, and in the guts of all animals, resides a robust ecosystem...

Beneficiaries of Medicare who develop cancer and don't have supplemental health insurance incur out-of-pocket expenditures for their treatments averaging one-quarter...

Credit: Jürgen Haacks, CAU Around five years ago, a team led by a physicist from Kiel University, Professor Robert Wimmer-Schweingruber,...

Most filters -- whether for water or a furnace -- eventually need to be removed or replaced to avoid complications....

In a cross-domain study directed by professor Peter Carmeliet (VIB - KU Leuven), researchers discovered unexpected cells in the protective...

Credit: Vionnie Yu Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have used a colorful, cell-labeling technique to track the development of...

Credit: Courtesy Image Three UC Santa Barbara faculty members have been elected to the American Association for the Advancement of...