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Credit: NASA image courtesy of the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (ESDIS) project. Caption by Lynn Jenner with information from...

NASA's Aqua satellite captured the image of the fires and smoke blowing from them on August 06, 2018 with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS,...

Credit: Virpi Lummaa The study shows that even years after capture, the mortality rate of wild-caught elephants remains increased, and their average life expectancy is...

The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere was thanks, in part, to iron and silica particles in ancient seawater, according to a new study by geomicrobiologists at...

The JRC assists other services of the European Commission in preparing the groundwork for the entry into force of the new EU Type Approval framework,...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine They are the most common repeated elements in the human genome; more than a million copies are scattered among and...

Credit: Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana The Ecological Society of America (ESA) will donate over $17,500 to the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) to...

Credit: UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA bioengineers have demonstrated that a gel-like material containing tiny magnetic particles could be used to manage chronic pain from disease...

Credit: Gabriel Jacobs, Tanner McArdle and Brian T. Freeman WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7, 2018 -- Metastasis, or the formation of secondary tumors, is a leading...

Credit: Simon Mitchell Protected riverbank habitats within areas of oil palm cultivation can play a key role in reducing the negative impacts on tropical bird...

Scientists have identified a key gene that helps seeds decide whether to germinate. The MFT gene stops seeds germinating in the dark or under shady...

Credit: Chris Fithall A koala virus could help researchers explain millions of years of accumulated 'junk' DNA in the human genome. An international team of...

Credit: Kostaki et al., 2018 Researchers have provided new insight on the geographical origins and global spread of two classes of the hepatitis B virus...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Researchers report in Nature Communications they figured out why air sacs in the lungs clog up with a thick substance...

Credit: Heidi L. Fuchs/Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The warming ocean may cause the larvae of bottom-dwelling snails to hatch earlier in the spring, when waves are...