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Credit: Theodore DuBose, Duke University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed and demonstrated the first handheld ophthalmology instrument with resolution-boosting adaptive optics technology t..

Fifty years ago, US ecologist Garret Hardin launched a global debate. In his essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" he warned of the consequences of...

LMU chemist Professor Ivan Huc, who heads a research group devoted to the study of Biomimetic Supramolecular Chemistry, has designed and synthesized a molecular structure...

Credit: NIBB A new study has found an effective way to cryopreserve - preservation by cooling to very low temperature - and subsequently transplant ovaries...

Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of developing a new type of...

(August 23, 2018) Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred thousand children annually. The condition...

Kelp forests in the UK and the wider North-East Atlantic will experience a marked change in ecosystem functioning in response to continued ocean warming and...

Credit: Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Philadelphia, August 23, 2018 - Dietary risk factors are among the key contributors to mortality and...

Credit: Matthew Gardner, University of East Anglia One of the rarest birds in the western hemisphere, the Bahama Nuthatch, has been rediscovered by research teams...

Credit: Prof Annemariè Avenant-Oldewage, Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg. Everyone needs safe and clean water to drink. Yet industry, agriculture and urban activities threaten...

Rockville, Md. (August 23, 2018)--Individual variations in genetic makeup and gut bacteria may explain the different effects of antibiotics on blood pressure, a new rat...

Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Victoria Coles CAMBRIDGE, MD (August 23, 2018)--The word Sargassum conjures up images of a vast floating island off...

Credit: The Li laboratory, UT Southwestern DALLAS - Aug. 23, 2018 - Sometimes it pays to take a closer look - especially when it means...

Scientists have identified the cause of outbreaks of enterovirus, one of the most prevalent types of virus in the world. The findings, from researchers at...

Credit: Gilles Mingasson FINDINGS A study of 63 healthy people showed that those with elevated microbiome levels of the metabolite indole -- produced when gut...