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Credit: American Chemical Society Wearable sensors are revolutionizing the tech-world, capable of tracking processes in the body, such as heart...

Renowned for its soft texture and characteristic flavor, Wagyu beef -- often referred to as Kobe beef in the U.S....

In a paper forthcoming in the November issue of the journal Theriogenology, a team of researchers from the University of...

Dr Jamie Seymour from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) said a typical scorpion predator would be...

Massive amounts of plastic bits that are dangerous to aquatic life are washing into the oceans and into even the...

Credit: WCS YANGON, MYANMAR (October 11, 2017) - The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota), a medium-sized tortoise found only in...

Credit: photo/©: Alexander Sell, JGU With the increasing use of renewable energies, stabilizing electricity networks is becoming an ever greater...

The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse...

Credit: Patrick Mansell, Penn State We have come a long way from leaky sulfur-acid automobile batteries, but modern lithium batteries...

Credit: Katy Robertson Since the early 1900s, veterinarians have observed intervertebral disc disease -- a common cause of back pain,...

Credit: OIST/American Chemical Society In 2016 the World Health Organization named antibiotic resistance as "one of the biggest threats to...

Credit: Illustration by Julie McMahon CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Some plants behave like the mythical monster Hydra: Cut off their heads...

The albatross is one of the most efficient travelers in the animal world. One species, the wandering albatross, can fly...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center Cancer researchers at Intermountain Medical Center and the Intermountain Precision Genomics Program in Salt Lake City...

Credit: Michigan Tech When a drink at the local watering hole turns into five or six, what are the effects...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 11, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...

Credit: Paul Dent, Ph.D. Blocking the function of the Ras oncogenes is considered by many scientists to be the "holy...

Credit: Alex Holt/NIST Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money...

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) A team of developmental biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dominique Alfandari,...

Credit: Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University (Boston) -- Cancer researchers have come to understand that generating human tumors in...