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Credit: UC Berkeley and Wageninen University, The Netherlands Scientists have found the key to mosquitoes' stealth takeoffs: They barely push...

Credit: Wits University Millions of years ago, a mountain range that would have dwarfed the Andes mountains in South America,...

Credit: Sebastian Hennige Resilient species of coral can move to inhospitable areas and lay the foundations for new reefs, a...

A double helix twisted around itself: this is the distinctive structure of DNA, which is made up of large molecules....

Credit: Julie McInnes A study that used DNA tests to analyse the scats of one of the world's most numerous...

Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), one of the world's leading research-intensive institutions, and Swedish defence and security technology leader Saab,...

Credit: Oncotarget ORCHARD PARK, New York - (Oct. 18, 2017) - Perhaps the only thing more devastating than being diagnosed...

An international group of researchers led by Professor Wim Versées (VIB-VUB) has unraveled the workings of an essential mechanism in...

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (Oct. 18, 2017) - Typically, within 50 to 72 hours of giving birth, a woman will...

The growth in 3-D printing is allowing manufacturers to reduce production time and save money. Metal fabrication shops, industrial firms...

New research suggests that rare species of trees in rainforests may help safeguard biodiversity levels as the environment undergoes change....

Credit: Wyss Institute, Harvard University Science has long inspired the arts, but examples of the reverse scenario are sparse. Now...

When species interact with each other, they do not evolve separately, but do so together. This process is called coevolution....

For the first time, researchers have been able to identify effective treatments for patients with rare cancers by analyzing genes...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 16, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today announced grant support from the Chan...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Oct. 17, 2017 -- From Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie, arsenic is often the poison of choice...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered a new drug target for bowel cancer that is specific to tumour...

Credit: Fred Hutch News Services Immunotherapy for leukemia patients has been nothing short of a miracle. Now scientists hope to...

Credit: (c) Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Many tumors possess mechanisms to avoid destruction by the immune system. For instance, they...

Credit: The American Chemical Society AMES, Iowa - The concept of "collective intelligence" is simple - it asserts that if...