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Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., June 19, 2018--A new study by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists and colleagues confirms that increasing minimum winter temperatures allow...

Credit: Jun Ohta Look into one's eye and you might be able to see their soul. Or at least you can see signs of a...

Credit: Osaka University Cells in multicellular tissues adhere to each other. Epithelial tissues on the surface layer of the intestines and skin pack cells into...

Credit: IMAGE - Xavier Diego, EMBL A team of researchers at EMBL have expanded Alan Turing's seminal theory on how patterns are created in biological...

Credit: Photo by Alaska Department of Fish and Game Scientists published the first hearing tests on a wild population of healthy marine mammals. The tests...

(Madison, Wis.) June 20, 2018--Forgetting names, skills or information learned in class is often thought of as purely negative. However unintuitive it may seem, research...

Credit: Ulf Andersson Vang Ørom RNA modifications can encrypt the RNA code and are responsible for a very sophisticated control of RNA function. A Danish-German...

Credit: Sahlgrenska University Hospital The majority of people with severe obesity have a lonely and prolonged struggle with their weight. In one study spanning more...

Researchers find important new piece in the Huntington's disease puzzle In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered a hitherto unknown...

In water-limited landscapes sick animals can have increased contact with healthy individuals, which can facilitate disease transmission. Scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo...

From the spatter analysis made famous in the TV show Dexter to the frequent DNA profiling of CSI and the real cases covered in the...

As the world's population swells, humans will have to figure out how to keep feeding livestock without using even larger tracts of land to grow...

Deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, nitrogen pollution - today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environme..

Credit: B. Smit/EPFL "Metal-organic frameworks" (MOFs) are materials with nano-sized pores in their crystal structure. These pores allow MOFs to capture molecules so efficiently that...

Credit: Abbott Implementing a nutrition care program for malnourished surgical patients showed a nearly 50 percent reduction in readmission rates, according to new data from...