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Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., June 7, 2017 -- An increase in mean temperature of 0.5 degrees Celsius over half a century may...

GeoSpace Offshore wind turbines vulnerable to Category 5 hurricane gusts Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the...

Credit: Jennifer Geib, Appalachian State University According to recent studies, declines in wild and managed bee populations threaten the pollination of flowers in more than...

The probability of continuing your life following bypass surgery is close to being the same as for the population in general - once the patient...

A 10-year study, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology Katherine Hartmann, M.D., Ph.D., disrupts conventional wisdom that uterine fibroids cause...

Credit: (UAHS BioCommunications) New prediction tools to help health-care providers identify patients at risk of inappropriate prescription opioid use, while allowing safe administration of legitim..

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--The Salk Institute's Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center and ZEISS announced today a global partnership to accelerate the frontiers of microscopy and...

Credit: Marshall et. al./Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Fentanyl, a highly potent prescription opioid, has Rhode Island drug users on high alert. But despite widespread...

WASHINGTON (June 7, 2017) -- Centenarians have a lower incidence of chronic illness than those in their 80s and 90s, according to research from the...

University of Sydney researchers have found that smartphone apps for treating back pain have questionable value as they are generally of poor quality, and have...

Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(June 7, 2017) Despite advances in neuroscience, the brain is still very much a black box--no one even knows how many...

Credit: Image courtesy NASA Using seismic data and supercomputers, Rice University geophysicists have conducted a massive seismic CT scan of the upper mantle beneath the...

You've been there: Trying to carry on a conversation in a room so noisy that the background chatter threatens to drown out the words you...

New insights into the control of DNA replication and cell division in Corynebacterium glutamicum, a biotechnologically important microorganism, could help to optimize the industrial production...

Credit: © KAUST Anastasia Khrenova A different approach to analyzing the motion of diffusing molecules has helped overturn the long-held assumption that DNA molecules move...