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It may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but in the 1950s two numerical models initially developed as a pet project by physicists led...

Credit: Courtesy of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network A new study has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first...

Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths. Experts from the...

Credit: Kristin Mello/UNH DURHAM, N.H. - When it comes to finding protection and a safe feeding ground, fish rely on towering blades of seaweed, like...

Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and European collaborators could help send that era...

Credit: CREDIT: Milieniusz Spanowicz/Wildlife Conservation Society. LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (May 22, 2018) -- After a two-and-a-half-year expedition through the world's most biodiverse protected area,..

Bottom Line: Two studies and a related editorial examined the effect of more or less frequent follow-up testing after treatment or surgery for colorectal cancer....

The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that overall cancer death rates continue to decline in men, women, and...

Credit: 2018 Shoji Takeuchi, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo Tokyo - The human brain is an exquisitely complex, organic CPU, made of...

Credit: Ali Freibott, US Forest Service When Mount St. Helens erupted 38 years ago today, it not only dramatically transformed more than 200 square miles...

Credit: University of Basel, Yasunori Okamoto Complex reaction cascades can be triggered in artificial molecular systems: Swiss scientists have constructed an enzyme than can penetrate...

Credit: Copyright: Ulrich Technau During embryonic development genetic cascades control gene activity and cell differentiation. In a new publication of the journal PNAS, the team...

Credit: PLOS PLOS, in collaboration with GARDP, is delighted to announce the launch of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Channel during the World Health Assembly, Geneva....

LSTM's Dr Maxine Caws is co-lead investigator on an advanced genetics study published in Nature Genetics(link is external), which has shown that a virulent strain...

Credit: Leibniz IZW, WWF Vietnam, USAID Song Thanh Nature Rerserve In November 2017 - under a biodiversity monitoring and assessment activity supported by the US...