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Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a "cloud" of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan,...

Research on birds in northern Europe reveals that there is an ongoing considerable species turnover due to climate change and...

Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich / HHU Düsseldorf / Gunnar Schröder Jülich / Düsseldorf / Hamburg / Maastricht, 7 September 2017 -...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A wagging tail is often associated with dogs' emotions, but the side-to-side motion may...

Compared to smallpox or typhoid, malaria is proving one of the most challenging human diseases to eradicate - and so...

Credit: Lab of Margaret McFall-Ngai, Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii Imagine a club scene--a bouncer at...

Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2016, this was the most common causative pathogen for death by infectious diseases....

GAITHERSBURG, MD - Sept. 7, 2017 - Bo Li, Director General Director of the CFDA's National Institute for Food and...

Credit: Image modified from Eliason et al. (2017) PRSB. When most people hear the word fossil, they probably think of...

Credit: Lise Balsby The use of antidepressants has been on the rise for many years. Between 2 and 8% of...

It is one of the great mysteries in biology: how does a cell neatly distribute its replicated DNA between two...

Credit: Candace Fallon VANCOUVER, Wash. - Monarch butterfly populations from western North America have declined far more dramatically than was...

(University of Texas at Austin) A team of scientists and engineers has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately...

Credit: Vivian Abagiu/Univ. of Texas at Austin Scientists have developed a handheld probe capable of non-destructively distinguishing between tumors and...