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Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University Most Michigan residents would prefer policymakers prioritize the environment over economic growth, finds a new survey by Michigan State...

Credit: Photo by Jean-Baptiste Deffontaines One of Africa's last remaining wilderness areas is in good shape and could potentially support 50,000 elephants and 1000 lions,...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell biomedical engineers have developed specialized white blood cells – dubbed "super natural killer cells" – that seek out cancer cells in...

Credit: Gwenn Smith lab In a study looking at brain scans of people with mild loss of thought and memory ability, Johns Hopkins researchers report...

Credit: Clemson University New research at Clemson University could improve a technology that many experts see as crucial in helping automakers meet increasingly rigorous fuel...

Credit: Vuokko Heikinheimo Researchers from the Digital Geography at the University of Helsinki have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand...

Credit: C. O'Connor What's in a face? In addition to their plumage, Pukeko–large purple swamphens found in New Zealand–convey information about their status through their...

Credit: University of Huddersfield "…the device allows early assessment of the effects of drugs, speeding up the adoption of those that are shown to be...

LOS ANGELES – Patients with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) face a much higher risk of succumbing to a deadly fungal infection, known as mucormycosis, than healthy...

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) March 11, 2016 — A biological process in the brains of zebra finches shows that the songbirds respond quickly to trauma and are...

Men with prostate cancer run the risk of brittle bones as a side-effect of their treatment. But one hour's football training a few times a...

Ocean acidification may well be helping invasive species of algae, jellyfish, crabs and shellfish to move to new areas of the planet with damaging consequences,...

R&D Magazine named the handheld single-cell pipette (hSCP), a Houston Methodist Research Institute invention, as one the 100 most innovative technologies and services of the...

Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS , in collaboration with Imperial College London and the University of Vienna, Austria, have identified antibodies that...

Credit: MIT News CAMBRIDGE, MA — Red blood cells must be small and flexible enough to squeeze through the tiniest capillaries of the body, where...