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Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 29, 2017 -- The Statue of Liberty is an iconic blue-green symbol of freedom. But did you know...

Bumble bees create foraging routes by using their experience to select nectar-rich, high-rewarding flowers. A study by Shohei Tsujimoto and Hiroshi Ishii of the University...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Trace amounts of flame retardants, banned in the U.S. for more than a decade, are still being passed through umbilical cord blood...

Credit: UBC Many nursing home residents have a fairly pain-free experience until the end of life, but at least a third suffer persistent, significant pain...

Credit: Kenta Maruyama Pain neuron exaggerates inflammation of contact dermatitis and psoriasis. Despite its importance in allergic and autoimmune inflammation, it is not known so...

University of Surrey research into innovative entrepreneurs starting to work in tourism has found, in some of the first analysis undertaken, how they have to...

Amsterdam, June 29, 2017 - Lung cancer screening is likely to be cost-effective, particularly if it also identifies other tobacco-related conditions in high-risk people, suggests...

In a new study, researchers inoculated mice with a new DNA vaccine candidate (pVAX1-D1ME) in order to evaluate its efficiency. They found that the vaccine...

A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands - a phrase commonly used to justify ones chocolate snacking behavior. A phrase now shown to actually...

A new study, conducted by a team of UK based researchers led by the University of Liverpool known as the ENIGMA Project, has revealed the...

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Leicester and other institutions has played a pivotal role in research investigating a possible link between...

Researchers from the University of Liverpool with colleagues from Gynuity Health Care in New York and the Government Medial College, Nagpur, India, have published a...

Many individuals with the blood disorder thalassaemia also carry the hepatitis C virus (HCV) due to contaminated transfusions before 1990. Due to the co-existence of...

Credit: University of Exeter Plants use hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) - best known for use in bleach and hair treatments - to control how their cells...

Although the basic outlines of human hearing have been known for years - sensory cells in the inner ear turn sound waves into the electrical...