Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Microplastics contaminate the world's surface waters, yet scientists have only just begun to explore their presence in...
Credit: Manu Friedrich Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. Latin America accounts for a...
Over the past 40 years, there has been a dramatic decline in fishery landings of an iconic Baltic Sea fish: the flounder. In the 1980s,...
Increasing evidence supports an association between tobacco use and psychotic experiences, such as paranoia and hallucinations, due in part to shared genetic influences Washington, DC,...
Credit: Bjorn Panyella Pedersen, Aarhus University Sugar transport through Sugar Transport Proteins (STP) is unique to plants, and is important for the proper development of...
Research could help experts more accurately classify which patients with atrial fibrillation are at a higher risk of stroke MINNEAPOLIS, MN- January 25, 2019 -...
The crucial hormone insulin needs help acquiring the right structure. A protein that assists in the process of insulin folding has just been discovered in...
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba: While fighting over females for the right to breed is common among male animals in the wild, these fights rarely...
Credit: NTU Singapore Researchers from Singapore and South Korea have uncovered new details of a brain pathway that can cause impulsive behaviours. Using mice, the...
Credit: © Helmholtz Zentrum München Patients undergoing long-term treatment with steroids may suffer from metabolic side effects. Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the...
Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study published January 24 in the...
Researchers find some cancer cell lines are more sensitive to NSAID treatment Regular use of a common type of medication, such as aspirin and ibuprofen,...
Credit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Hedberg), University of Arizona (Bauman), and University of California, San Francisco (Peyser/Grandis). Regular use of aspirin or other...
Credit: Kosik et al., 2019 Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered that antibodies that may form the basis of a universal flu...
Carbon dioxide is unlikely to escape through geological faults, study showsCredit: Johannes Miocic Carbon dioxide emissions can be captured and securely stored in underground rocks,...
