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How often do stars live alone? For brown dwarfs — objects that straddle the boundary between the most massive planets and the smallest stars —...

Balancing how much protein you eat with the amount your body needs could reduce nitrogen releases to aquatic systems in the U.S. by 12% and...

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Efforts to conserve the carbon stored in tropical forests would be enhanced by linking the work to the charismatic, threatened primates that...

In this long-term study of 3,926 adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), researchers found that...

PITTSBURGH, July 7, 2022 – While patients with diabetes on Medicare Advantage plans are more likely to receive preventive treatments, they were less likely to...

An international team of scientists has identified the neural mechanisms through which sound blunts pain in mice. The findings, which could inform development of safer...

Performance-related bonuses for family healthcare workers in Brazil can improve the quality of primary health care, especially in more deprived areasCredit: Fardousi N, et al.,...

SAN ANTONIO — July 7, 2022 — When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples from asteroid Bennu’s surface in 2020, forces measured during the interaction provided...

New research published today in the peer-reviewed journal Science examines the potential for underwater noise pollution from seabed mining operations, which could affect the understudied...

Scientists have long puzzled over the gap in the fossil record that would explain the evolution of invertebrates to vertebrates. Vertebrates, including fishes, amphibians, reptiles,...

When your older sibling chooses to stay in education for longer, so do you: new study suggests nature and nurture combine to link siblings' educational...

The Swedish Parliament recently presented its ambition to drastically reduce number of wolves in Sweden – from approximately 400 down to approximately 200. Scientists are...

A team co-led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researcher Peter Makovicky and Argentinean colleagues Juan Canale and Sebastian Apesteguía has discovered a new huge,...

One often thinks that the early embryo is fragile and needs support. However, at the earliest stages of development, it has the power to feed...

In a new study in Cell Stem Cell, scientists from the USC laboratory of Andy McMahon generated simple kidney-like structures called organoids and used them to...