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The arrival of humans, and the kiore (Pacific rat) they brought with them, has been well documented as bringing about major changes to Aotearoa New...

In healthy vision, a gene called PRPH2 provides instructions to make a protein called peripherin 2 (PRPH2), which plays a key role in the normal...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- What you eat influences your taste for what you might want to eat next. So claims a University of California, Riverside, study performed on...

Hearing loss has been linked to mutations in at least 100 different genes, but up to 16 percent of genetic hearing loss can be traced...

An analysis of thousands of children’s books published in the last 60 years suggests that, while a higher proportion of books now feature female protagonists,...

Welsh kids' self-reported wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic differed by gender, ethnicity and deprivation, with younger children reporting the need for playing with friends and...

Dog ownership was associated with fewer negative psychological impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a U.S. surveyCredit: Image Credit: gotdaflow, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)...

As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread around the world, a vaccine developed and manufactured at The Ottawa Hospital could provide a unique approach to...

Published in Nature, results of the interim analysis show that this novel triplet combination markedly reduces tumor size, induces a complete response in some patients,...

BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, has been awarded a grant to promote the shift to cloud computing among undergraduates...

When it comes to climate-friendly behaviour, there is often a gap between what we want and what we actually do. Although most people want to...

Experts in Japan have identified a fundamental part of the immune system’s long-term memory, providing a useful new detail in the pursuit to design better...

A citizen science project by the University of Sussex has found that urban growers in Brighton and Hove were able to harvest 1kg of insect-pollinated fruit and vegetables per one metre square, which...

Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history...

To better understand the factors governing the wave and plateau dynamics of the spread of COVID-19, a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of...