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Credit: Brad Gellman/Nemours Feb. 1, 2018 | Wilmington, DE – The Toy Foundation (TTF) has awarded a second grant of $425,000 to the Center for...

Credit: Alexei Churilov Research into crystal growth in microgravity was one of the earliest investigations conducted aboard the International Space Station and is continued to...

Credit: Shutterstock/Argonne National Laboratory Instead of hauling food waste to landfills, we might want to use that organic waste to power garbage trucks, your car,...

Credit: Jenna McHenry, PhD, UNC School of Medicine CHAPEL HILL, NC – The ancient impulse to procreate is necessary for survival and must be hardwired...

Credit: Rutgers University Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new...

Credit: Sean Mattson, STRI Bottlenose dolphins in Panama's Bocas Del Toro Archipelago should be designated as endangered say the authors of a new study. Biologists...

Credit: Mark R. McNeill Contaminated soil frequently arrives at the borders through transported items, and is widely recognised as a vector for non-native species, potentially...

Credit: CNIC Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares Carlos III (CNIC) have identified a possible therapeutic target for 2 types of very aggressive...

The human brain may be the most complex piece of organized matter in the known universe, but Allen Institute researchers have begun to unravel the...

Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Nov. 3, 2016 — Few treatments exist for bacteria-caused intestinal inflammation that leads to diarrhea, fever and abdominal...

Credit: Lauren Brent Some individual animals are prone to social isolation, new research suggests. The study of rhesus macaques showed some of the monkeys remain...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (Sept. 7, 2016) – Scientists are trying to turn up the heat-burning ability of brown fat with the long-term goal of combatting obesity....

Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (October 13, 2017) – Nurse bioethicists are a small but special subset of the nursing profession and bioethics community, focusing on...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA–(December 5, 2016) Ever since researchers connected the shortening of telomeres–the protective structures on the ends of chromosomes–to aging and disease,...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. – When trace elements rise to toxic levels, bad things happen. Patients suffering from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease...