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Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (July 25, 2018) - The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Basic Energy Sciences has awarded Rice University researchers...

Credit: Kevin Fitzsimons, The Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio - The reproductive history of the unisexual, ladies-only salamander species is full of evolutionary surprises. In...

Credit: Suel Lab, UC San Diego It's the way we end up with a fresh cup of coffee from a clump of beans. It's how...

Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science In 1924, Russian biochemist Alexander Oparin claimed that life on Earth developed through gradual chemical changes of organic molecules, in...

Homing pigeons use familiar smells to navigate their way across hundreds of kilometers of unfamiliar territory. Researchers have now confirmed that artificial odors cannot be...

Credit: Dr. Freek Vonk Researchers at Swansea University's College of Science are part of an international team that has discovered a new species of venomous...

Credit: Genevieve Ali Add just enough fertilizer, and crops thrive. Add too much, and you may end up with contaminated surface and groundwater. Excess nutrients...

Infection from the globally prevalent parasite Toxoplasma gondii may increase a person's likelihood of pursuing entrepreneurial and business-related activities, new University of Colorado Boulder..

NEW YORK, NY -- This week, The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research announced a $1M grant to the New York Genome Center (NYGC) to support...

Darwin, Australia: A team of malaria experts from a large international research collaboration has published results supporting the need for a radical cure strategy to...

A team of tiny molecules that work together to make cancer cells less aggressive has been discovered by Australian researchers. The molecules, called microRNAs, could...

Credit: Loïc Dupré & Javier Rey-Barroso (Vienna, July 25, 2018) In order to move, a body needs a strong scaffold. This is not only true...

Credit: Fossil lizard images courtesy of Nicholas Edwards and Wang Yuan. A newly published experimental protocol, involving University of Bristol scientists, could change the way...

Taking water and ripping it apart into hydrogen and oxygen could form the basis of artificial photosynthetic devices that could ultimately power homes and businesses....

People are often notified about poor air quality by weather apps, and this happens frequently in urban areas, where levels of outdoor pollution containing particulates...