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Credit: Photo taken by Daisuke Nomi. Females of a socially monogamous passerine, the Japanese great tit (Parus minor), become more promiscuous after hatchings fail in...

Male chimps that are less aggressive and form strong social bonds tend to live longer, research suggests. A study of hundreds of captive chimpanzees showed...

Credit: Molecular Biology and Evolution Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have discovered a gene that appears to play a vital role in...

Credit: UEx The objective of the research, undertaken in the laboratories of the IBPM, is to develop a model for studying Alzheimer's disease (AD) of...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University According to the United States Department of Justice, "sextortion" is labeled as the most important and fastest-growing cyberthreat to children, with...

Credit: TRIUMF October 9, 2018 - Vancouver, B.C. - As we approach 2020, TRIUMF, Canada's particle accelerator centre, is pleased to launch its new Five-Year...

The proportion of breast cancer patients who are eligible for breast conservation therapy, yet opt for mastectomy, is increasing, for reasons that include the desire...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric researchers studying the life-threatening blood disorder Fanconi anemia (FA) have devised a method to block the abnormal biological signals..

DALLAS, Oct. 9, 2018 - A church-based program to encourage a healthy lifestyle lowered systolic blood pressure more than an educational program alone delivered in...

Credit: Gabriel Haller Nobody knows why some children's backs start to curve to one side just as they hit puberty. Most children diagnosed with scoliosis,...

Toddlers with asthma are more likely to become obese children, according to an international study led by USC scientists. The finding is a turnabout for...

Annals of Internal Medicine Tip Sheet Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal...

Credit: Robin Renaut A progressively drying climate punctuated by variable wetter episodes may have precipitated the transition from our hominin ancestors to anatomically modern humans,...

Credit: University of Washington About a quarter of the world's seafood caught in the ocean comes from bottom trawling, a method that involves dragging a...

Credit: David Field Snapdragons are charming tall plants, and flower in a range of bright colors. In Spain, where snapdragons grow wild, these flower colors...