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Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein New Haven, Conn. - Yale University scientists have developed a novel chemical process that may lead...

Researchers from Belgium led by Prof. Dirk Elewaut of the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the team of Prof....

Researchers at the University of York have shown that tobacco use is more common among HIV positive individuals than HIV...

In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals...

DETROIT - Three research teams at Wayne State University recently received grants totaling $460,305 from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Stress affects the body and can trigger illness -- from psychiatric disorders to heart disease....

Cholesterol, a naturally occurring compound at the lung surface, has been shown to have a clear effect on the properties...

Credit: Courtesy of Jiaying Zhu. Stanford, CA--Plants are stationary. This means that the way they grow must be highly internally...

Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (June 1, 2017) - The bacteria in a child's gut appears to be influenced as...

Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like...

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department...

Credit: Miles Miller, PhD, and Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD; Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital...

Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed a handheld device for cervical cancer screening that promises...

UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something,...

Credit: Andrew Harley Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is...

Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full...

Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report...

Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or...

Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what...

Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico....