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Credit: Nick Dentamaro/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The human brain contains about 90 billion neurons, but Stephanie Jones, an associate professor of neuroscience at Brow..

WASHINGTON -- Simulations with animal models meant to mirror galactic cosmic radiation exposure to astronauts are raising red flags for investigators at Georgetown University Medical...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- Cattle ranching and conservation may seem an unusual pair in the American West, but new research reveals a clear link between...

ITHACA, N.Y.- Scientists from the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) and Cornell University have boosted a carbon-craving enzyme called RuBisCO to turbocharge photosynthesis in corn. The...

Credit: NASA As Hurricane Florence ground its way through North Carolina, it released what might politely be called an excrement storm. Massive hog farm manure...

Cancer research and the future of precision cancer treatment will be accelerated by a new tool developed by scientists at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. The...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Maybe the genetic test report your doctor ordered says your DNA contains many "variants of unknown significance." Currently, up to...

Credit: Christian Sieben/EPFL Super-resolution microscopy is a technique that can "see" beyond the diffraction limit of light. The technique has garnered increasing interest recently, especially...

Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Delaying pregnancy may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in both women and their children, with boys at higher risk of...

Knoxville, Tenn. (October 1, 2018)--Exercise may reduce the risk of osteoporosis associated with the loss of ovarian function, but fitness may not protect against related...

Crops such as wheat and maize have undergone a breeding process lasting thousands of years, in the course of which mankind has gradually modified the...

Credit: Abigail Swann Plant scientists have observed that when levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rise, most plants do something unusual: They thicken their...

Credit: Photo: Anja Lode, TU Dresden An international team of researchers led by Professor Michael Kühl at the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen has...

Credit: J. Geist/ TUM The majority of Bavaria's watercourses are in poor ecological condition. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now...

(CNRS) A research team including the CNRS and l'Université des Antilles has just launched an 18-month research project, largely financed by Ademe, on the brown...