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Deep beneath the waves, tiny clams with shells usually about as big as a pea bore into pieces of sunken wood. The wood is food...

Creating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the...

Outpatient clinic visits with a nephrologist and attention to kidney complications and cardiovascular disease were associated with 29% lower risk of mortality compared to standard...

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee...

A new study demonstrates how anonymized GPS data from people’s smartphones can be used to monitor the public’s use of parks and other green spaces...

The nature and properties of materials depend strongly on dimension. Imagine how different life in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional world would be from the three...

Florida International University researchers have moved a step closer to producing synthetic arsenic-based drugs in their quest to solve an urgent worldwide health problem ―the...

Soft, wearable sensors can improve our lives, but these soft and stretchable electronic devices are nearly impossible to recycle. As a result, this electronic waste...

New research from Harvard University finds that a government policy that delayed rice planting in northwest India may have had an unintended consequence for air...

Asexual reproduction is common for animals like starfish, deep-sea worms, and stick insects, but among vertebrates, it’s a rarity. A process called parthenogenesis allows some...

Benzazepines can be found in a wide variety of natural products and pharmaceuticals. Many of these compounds are chiral, being available in two enantiomeric forms....

Drug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal drugs and prescription opioids in...

Sea urchin larvae raised in high levels of plastic pollution die due to developmental abnormalities, new research shows.Credit: Dr Eva Jimenez-Guri Sea urchin larvae raised...

The cell protein retinoid X receptor (RXR) is a key factor in the maintenance of hematopoietic stem cells, the immature stem cells that give rise...

Nature-based solutions to fight climate change take a holistic approach that promotes biodiversity and ecosystem preservation. While many efforts have focused on planting trees or...