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Credit: Emmett Duffy/Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Biodiversity is proving to be one of humanity's best defenses against extreme weather and...

Researchers led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have determined that major changes in...

In climate change scenarios, abiotic stresses, such as drought and heat stress, become intensified, leading to severe crop loss. Selection...

Credit: University of Bristol Scientists have discovered traces of life more than half-a-billion years old that could change the way...

The programme controls how and when brain genes are expressed at different times in a person's life to perform a...

Credit: KAIST A joint research team led by Professor Hee Tak Kim and Shin-Hyun Kim in the Department of Chemical...

Credit: GLEAM 2.0 Philadelphia, PA, September 11, 2017 - Humans face mounting challenges when it comes to finding ways to...

Credit: Jonathan Hillenbrand Aliso Viejo, CA and Evanston, IL (September 12, 2017): Ambry Genetics (Ambry), a leading clinical genetics-testing lab,...

It has traditionally been thought that in mammals only mothers are able to influence the sex of their offspring. But...

Credit: Juha Aalto The decline of cold regions called periglacial zones is now inevitable due to climate change, researchers say....

Cocaine-addicted individuals say they find the drug much less enjoyable after years of use, but they have great difficulty quitting....

Credit: Image and video: William Roman, Edgar Gomes Lab Concept and animation: Ana de Barros, iMM Lisboa A group of...

Credit: Fabbri et al., 2017 Bird skulls and brains look like those of young dinosaurs, providing clues to their unique...

Credit: Sabrina Kaul-Strehlow, Patrick Steinmetz How did the gut, the skin and musculature evolve? This question concerns scientists for more...

Filmed at the 11th WRIB (Los Angeles, CA, USA, 3-7 April 2017), the series covers conversation between Scott Fountain (Charles...

Credit: NJIT Amid the adrenaline rush and dreams of glory in sports arenas large and small this fall, there will...

Credit: University of Kent Protein research at University of Kent could help in hunt for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's cures Research...

A team of researchers led by a bioinformatician at the University of California San Diego has developed a method to...

Credit: From Arbiser et al Scientific Reports (2017). Compounds derived from fire ant venom can reduce skin thickening and inflammation...

WASHINGTON (Sept. 11, 2017) - Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security and the Georgetown Global Health Initiative...