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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The mix of microbes in the gut can shape a person’s immune response. In immunotherapy for melanoma, for example, the composition of...

The summer of 2021 in Western Canada was one of the hottest on record. In BC alone, 59 weather stations registered their hottest temperatures ever...

Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) spend their days being buffeted by crashing waves. They manage to stay tethered to the rocks or their fellow mussels thanks...

The human brain is a constant buzz of activity, with its 86 billion nerve cells (neurons) sending electrical signals from one region of the brain...

Embargoed until 2:00 p.m. on October 8, 2021. Credit: Rachel Keady Keeney Embargoed until 2:00 p.m. on October 8, 2021. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University...

The malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax) causes frequent, chronic infections that represent a major unrecognized burden on global health, according to a review by...

DURHAM, N.C. – Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after...

Yellow warblers are hosts to brood parasitic brown-headed cowbirds, which rely on other species to raise their offspring. Warblers use referential “seet” calls to warn...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECredit: Images courtesy of David Kass FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have found that a drug first developed to treat...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — On a night dive off the coast of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2016, two coral reef researchers saw...

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a serious condition associated with a recent COVID-19 infection. The syndrome is rare, and it remains unclear how...

Consuming sustainably sourced wild meat instead of domesticated livestock reduces greenhouse gas emissions and retains precious tropical forest systems, which in turn mitigates the effects...

Young birds that eat insects with conspicuous warning colouration to advertise their toxicity to would-be predators quickly learn to avoid other prey that carry the...

The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) released today a research roadmap that, if funded by Congress, would quickly accelerate innovations in treatment and increase understanding of kidney disease.Credit: Research...

A new study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History suggests that Mylodon—a ground sloth that lived in South America until about...