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Credit: Hokkaido University New understandings of how lipids function within tears could lead to better drugs for treating dry eye disease. A new approach has...

Litter problem at England’s protected coasts

Credit: Marine Conservation Society Beaches in or near England's Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have the same levels of litter as those in unprotected areas, new...

New genetic tools expand capacity to investigate microbes

Credit: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences A team of international scientists has developed a suite of more than 200 new genetic techniques for using marine...

MCG’s GEM Lab offering coronavirus testing statewide

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University The Georgia Esoteric and Molecular Laboratory at the Medical College of Georgia Department of Pathology is now offering...

Fungi found in cotton can decrease root knot nematode galling

Credit: Cesar Valencia Texas A&M University scientists found that a surprising number of fungi naturally associated with cultivated cotton were capable of curtailing the negative...

Stream pollution from mountaintop mining doesn’t stay put in the water

Stream insects and the bankside spiders that eat them carry potentially toxic selenium runoff from water to landCredit: Photo by Jacqueline Gerson, Duke University DURHAM,...

Development of new system for combatting COVID-19 that can be used for other viruses

Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston GALVESTON, Texas - A multidisciplinary team at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston working...

Lifestyle trumps geography in determining makeup of gut microbiome

Captive apes' microbiomes more similar to some humans' than to wild apes'Credit: GOUALOUGO TRIANGLE APE PROJECT Apes in U.S. zoos host bacterial communities in their...

NASA finds heavy rainfall in powerful tropical cyclone Harold

Credit: Credit: JAXA/Jason West, NASA EOSDIS One of NASA's satellites that can measure the rate in which rainfall is occurring in storms passed over powerful...

Clemson researchers unraveling role of fungi in early childhood dental health

Credit: Clemson College of Science/Pete Martin CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Although mostly preventable, tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases in children...

Leaving its mark: How frailty impacts the blood

Credit: OIST Globally, human society is aging. A side-effect of this is that age-related disorders, such as frailty, are becoming increasingly common. Frailty includes, not...

Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions

As the human race continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists have found that the planet's insects are also facing a crisis after accelerating rates...

A new antiviral drug heading into clinical trials offers hope for COVID-19 treatment

Scientists are hopeful that a new drug -- called EIDD-2801 -- could change the way doctors treat COVID-19Credit: Photo Courtesy of Mary Lide Parker Scientists...

Artificial light in the arctic

New study examines how artificial light from research vessels affects fish countsCredit: Photo by Michael O. Snyder The Arctic polar night remains one of the...

ATS publishes new guidance on COVID-19 management