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Credit: WU Zhenying Plant cell walls, as repositories of fixed carbon, are an important source of biomass, which is mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and...

Field testing commenced with aim to improve animal welfare in dairy farming and livestock industriesCredit: Research Center for the Earth Inclusive Sensing Empathizing with Silent...

Credit: ATS April 19, 2019-- A short video describing the potential benefits and risks of low-dose CT screening for lung cancer in addition to an...

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University Augusta, Ga. (April 19, 2019) - Identifying a protein that plays a key role in cancer cell growth...

New study shows how your moral behavior may change depending on the context When it comes to making moral decisions, we often think of the...

More than a quarter of children with autism spectrum disorder are also diagnosed with disruptive behavior disorders. For the first time, Yale researchers have identified...

University of Arkansas physics professor Daniel Kennefick writes about the 1919 eclipse, which provided the data to confirm the revolutionary theoryCredit: Royal Astronomical Society No...

Four UC Santa Barbara professors join the 2019 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences UC Santa Barbara professors Alison Butler, José Cabezón,...

A U of A study finds a surprising division of labor among motor cortex neurons, which could lead to insight on neurological disordersCredit: University Relations...

A neural network can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The work of a science writer, including this one, includes...

Pitch contest showcases cutting-edge products, technologies from around the world BOSTON -- Entrepreneurs developing new technologies to treat blood clots, congestive heart failure, incontinence and...

Credit: Photo by Susan Urmy Asian countries are in the early stages of a tobacco smoking epidemic with habits mirroring those of the United States...

Maternal vaccine effectively protects against HSV-1, HSV-2 in mouse offspring Between 60 and 95 percent of adults worldwide are infected with herpes simplex virus 1...

Credit: K. D. Swisher Grimm and S. F. Garczynski St. Paul, MN (April 2019)--Named after the dark stripes that form inside potatoes after they are...

Credit: University of Washington About 3.6 million adults in the United States use a wheelchair to get around, according to census data. But unless you're...