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Colourful bugs look very different as young and adults, but why?Credit: Iliana Medina New research has revealed for the first time that shield bugs use...

May the forces be within your cellsCredit: Kyoto University/Makito Miyazaki Japan -- Symmetry and asymmetry are fundamental properties of nature. Seen from above, butterflies have...

Scientists identify an important protein that increases "bacterial virulence," when mutated, changing harmless bacteria to harmful onesCredit: CHIKARA KAITO As far as humans are concerned,...

Credit: M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine In recent years, the number of women who entered U.S. medical school surpassed the number of men. But gender...

Researchers profile the body's immune response in critically ill patientsCredit: Lawson Health Research Institute LONDON, ONTARIO - A team from Lawson Health Research Institute and...

Small ethnic group is cooperative and generous, contrary to 1972 book portrayalCredit: Cathryn Townsend The Ik, a small ethnic group in Uganda, are not incredibly...

Published on ACS Nano, journal of the American Chemical Society, the study opens important perspectives for treatment of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease,...

Credit: Yanyu Zhang Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a hitherto unknown function of blood platelets in cancer. In mouse models, these platelets have proved...

$40.5 million NIH-funded project aims to pinpoint cells at the root of the progressive brain disease and home in on new therapeutic targetsCredit: UW Medicine...

Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree of variability in moisture conditions...

Conservation efforts to open up rattlesnake habitat bring in much-needed sunlight but could attract more threatening predatorsCredit: Christopher Camacho UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Conservation efforts...

Study in New England Journal of Medicine has global implicationsCredit: IU School of Medicine INDIANAPOLIS, CINCINNATI, and KAMPALA, Uganda - A team of international researchers...

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center People with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel had fewer complications and lived longer than those who received another chemotherapy...

Credit: Elle Starkman / PPPL Office of Communications One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the sun and...

Aerospace student joins 'exceptional group of women'Credit: UT Arlington A doctoral student in aerospace engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington is one of...