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Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma researcher, Andrea Contina, and his team have identified the genetic structure of the Painted Bunting, a neotropical...

(American Chemical Society) It has been called the smelliest food in the world. But surströmming -- Swedish for 'sour herring' -- is beloved in Sweden...

PHILADELPHIA (June 27, 2018) - The Monell Center, in partnership with the University of Florida Center for Smell and Taste and the Rocky Mountain Taste...

A new form of immunotherapy reactivates the response to hormone treatment in advanced prostate cancer, a study in mice and human prostate cancer cells has...

Credit: Yusuke Fukuda The south-east Asian island state of East Timor has a problem with crocodiles. Between 2007 and 2014 there was a sharp increase...

Credit: University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Fla. (June 27, 2018)- The University of South Florida continues to play an integral role in discovering the...

In 2016, three physicists received the Nobel Prize for using the mathematical concept of "topology" to explain the strange behavior of certain materials - for...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Autonomous robots excel in factories and other manmade spaces, but they struggle with the randomness of nature. To help these machines overcome...

Credit: Christi Bubac Female seals don't change their spots, according to a new study by University of Alberta biologists. In fact, individual differences in boldness...

Credit: © AMNH/D. Finnin Knowing what extinct animals ate has long been determined by analyzing carbon isotopes locked inside fossil teeth. For two decades, a...

Credit: Per T Smiseth Animals that are inbred make mistakes in response to changes in their surroundings, which threatens their survival, research has found. A...

Young women with high body fat have a decreased chance of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health...

Credit: Frontier Research Unit: Gene Expression,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) -led international researchers identify nuclear localization function for conserved section of heart ..

Credit: Osaka University Osaka - Though they occasionally play a role in animal development, transposons, also known as "jumping genetic elements," are in fact DNA...

Credit: F Freixo, IRB Barcelona The protein NEK7 regulates neuron formation, as it is required for dendrite growth and branching, as well as the formation...