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Credit: Flickr user, pauljill About 200 countries worldwide committed to protecting 10% of national marine areas by signing the Convention...

Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State Delicate fossil remains of tomatillos found in Patagonia, Argentina, show that this branch of the...

Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Julio M. Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, has...

Credit: UAlberta.ca (Edmonton) A University of Alberta engineering researcher has developed a new way to treat common surgical masks so...

Credit: Ivan S. Bushmarinov The paper explores in detail the intricate relationship between the results of the quantum-chemical calculations and...

Credit: J. Xu et al., Science (2016) Researchers have created a stretchy transistor that can be elongated to twice its...

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Penn State/B. Luo et al An unparalleled image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving an international team...

A new study reveals how competitiveness among bats, as well as relative perceptions of sweetness when tasting nectar, shape the...

Credit: Brianna Jeska People are born with brains riddled with excess neural connections. Those are slowly pruned back until early...

Results of an initial study of tumors from patients with lung cancer or head and neck cancer suggest that the...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Endometrial cancer triggers remain elusive, despite continued research. But given the typical inflammatory profile in these cases,...

TAMPA, Fla. - Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer. The disease occurs when immune cells called lymphocytes multiply uncontrollably....

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--Salk Institute scientists have solved the atomic structure of a key piece of machinery that allows...

There are an estimated 5,000 - 7,000 rare genetic diseases, each of which can vary dramatically and be caused by...