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OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Director Brian J. Druker, M.D., has been awarded the 2018 Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for his pioneering role in shaping...

Credit: Free-Photos, Pixabay The risk of mortality, and of developing a number of cancers, is lowest in light drinkers consuming an average of less than...

As humans continue to pump the atmosphere with carbon, it's crucial for scientists to understand how and where the planet absorbs and naturally emits carbon....

Credit: Paolo Tonato Individual speech sounds - phonemes - are statistically associated with negative or positive emotions in several languages, new research published in the...

Credit: Victor Sans Sangorrin The research, led by Dr Victor Sans Sangorrin from the Faculty of Engineering and Dr Graham Newton from the School of...

Credit: Huub Veldhuijzen van Zanten/Naturalis Biodiversity Center While 2018 marks the centenary of the death of the last captive Carolina parakeet - North America's only...

Credit: Polechová All species have restricted distributions. Yet a joint coherent theory explaining the span and borders of species' ranges has been missing both due...

Credit: Ma et al. The tropical circulation change under global warming arises great attention around the world in recent decades. It has a close relationship...

Credit: US Army photo by David McNally ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (June 19, 2018) - The U.S. Army Research Laboratory plans to license its discovery...

Credit: Gabriel Singer/IGB Climate change, pesticides and land use changes alone cannot fully explain the decline in insect populations in Germany. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute...

Even "modest" action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year 2050, according to a new...

Credit: University of Houston UH College of Optometry biomedical engineer Vijaykrishna Raghunathan has received $765,000 from the National Institutes of Health to examine an understudied...

Credit: University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A just-published paper in Science changes the formula scientists should use when estimating the speed of huge ice sheets...

Credit: EMPA The term alloy usually refers to a mixture of several metals. However, other materials can also be alloyed. In the semiconductor industry, for...

Credit: The Geological Society of America Boulder, CO, USA: Media registration is now open for The Geological Society of America's 130th Annual Meeting & Exposition,...