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Credit: David Markman/Colorado State University Amoebae, single-celled organisms common in soil, water and grade-school science classrooms, may play a key...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Women live longer than men. This simple statement holds a tantalizing riddle that Steven Austad, Ph.D., and...

Credit: Brian Stauffer/University of Illinois Political and agricultural leaders gathered at the University of Illinois today to see transformative work...

Credit: EMBO "The EMBO Young Investigator Programme supports young life scientists in their most demanding career phase, when they establish...

LA JOLLA, CA – August 17, 2016 – The eye's lacrimal gland is small but mighty. This gland produces moisture...

Credit: Courtesy: Kelvinsong On Nov. 25, 1901, a 51-year-old woman is admitted to a hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, displaying a...

Credit: © Queensland Museum, Gary Cranitch. Swamp wallabies, long thought to be a genus all of their own, have been...

A team of scientists, including several from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have determined the structures of...

Credit: CU Boulder The preschoolers, all regular afternoon nappers, were deprived of roughly three hours of sleep on one day...

Credit: Kaeser lab At a glance: Harvard Medical School scientists have identified the molecular machinery responsible for release of the...

Credit: Martin F.V. Corley As travelling in the 21st century is easier than ever, so is for species to make...

IMAGE: Marilyn Rantz is leading the Missouri Quality Initiative for Nursing Homes which received accolades from CMS for improving care...

Credit: Matthias Mörgelin, Lund University There are more and more examples of the ways in which we can benefit from...

London, January 14, 2016 – Scientists have uncovered part of a protein found in humans and other primates that can...