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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...

Credit: Robert Lachlan American swamp sparrows may have sung the same songs for more than 1,000 years and passed them on through generations by learning,...

Credit: Photo by Robert Lachlan. DURHAM , N.C. -- What makes human cultural traditions unique? One common answer is that we are better copycats than...

Abandoned mines can serve as roost sites for bats, but because the mines pose serious risks to humans, officials often install gates at their entrances....

Credit: @IMDEA Networks Institute The University of Haifa (Israel) and two teams from the IMDEA Networks Institute have developed an innovative autonomous system, SYMBIOSIS, to...

Credit: Piotr Trebicki A heat wave sweeps through a city and people swelter, running indoors to find air conditioning. But crops out in a field...

DENVER - The lungs can be a difficult organ to biopsy with a needle, so the promise of identifying lung cancer through a blood-based biopsy...

Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS Amputees often experience the sensation of a "phantom limb"--a feeling that a missing body part is still there. That sensory illusion is...