A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group's ...

Credit: Asoka A, 2017 Changing rainfall is the key factor driving changes in groundwater storage in India, according to a ...

Even a mild rise in temperature damages insect's ability to reproduce Insect populations in high latitude countries are worst affected ...

Hoboken, NJ - January 10, 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) George Mason University have ...

The graphics cards found in powerful gaming computers are now capable of solving computationally intensive mathematical problems common in science ...

As part of the study, people had to guess what a group of three white or black actors had in ...

Theoretical physicists from the University of Plymouth have been awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the world and the ...

Credit: Polytechnique Montréal Carbon nanotubes have made headlines in scientific journals for a long time, as has 3D printing. But ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a national initiative took aim ...

Credit: James K. Liebherr While new species are most commonly described based on recent field collections, undertaken at poorly explored ...

Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, ...

Plants with a particular breeding system change their sex depending on how much light they receive, new scientific research has ...

Credit: Osaka University The formation and refinement of neural networks is known to be often an activity-dependent process, but mechanisms ...

Because it is impossible to predict which acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients will benefit, all patients are routinely treated with ...

(University of Granada) Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and from hospitals Virgen de las Nieves and San Cecilio ...

Credit: Osaka University The importance of glutamine metabolism for colon cancer was revealed by Masamitsu Konno, Ph.D, Masaaki Miyo, M.D. ...

Credit: University of Leicester Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found ...

TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2017 - A new study could explain how migrating to another country increases a person's risk of ...

Credit: Osaka University Autophagy has long been considered as a physiological process solely for degradation, but its secretory role has ...

Predicting how species will respond to climate change is a critical part of efforts to prevent widespread climate-driven extinction, or ...