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Credit: Iqbal Hamza COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Scientists at the University of Maryland and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified for the first...

A promising avenue for the future of clean energy is to store it in the form of carbon-based fuels produced from renewable sources, effectively enabling...

Credit: iCeMS / Sivaniah Lab Around 2800BC, the ancient inhabitants of Ur, Mesopotamia made a discovery that was to change civilization. They learned that if...

Credit: © 2017 Christian Voolstra Excess nitrogen is shown to disrupt coral-algae symbiosis, triggering bleaching even in the absence of heat and light stress. With...

Credit: Michael Shribak, Irina Arkhipova WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- Rotifers are tough, microscopic organisms highly resistant to radiation and repeated cycles of dehydration and rehydration....

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Heart muscle is one of the least renewable tissues in the body, which is one of the reasons that heart...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 5, 2017--The devastating effects of Zika virus on the brain of the developing fetus during...

Credit: Ann Ross Forensic anthropology researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that can provide an approximate age for juveniles and young...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has long had a stigma of being a painful and barbaric method of treatment, but a new study found that patients undergoing...

Credit: Juan. A. Amat Most bird chicks need parental care to survive. In biparental species the chicks have greater chances of success if both parents...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - In recent years, smoking rates among adults in America have steadily declined; yet tobacco use remains the largest preventable cause...

Credit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Researchers from the Indiana University Center for Aging Research and the Regenstrief Institute are developing and testing the nation's first...

The brain is a complex organ--a network of nerve cells, or neurons, producing thought, memory, action, and feeling. How does this complex system change from...

Credit: Rohan Dharmakumar. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center RESTON, Va. -- More than 5 million cardiac stress tests performed annually in the U.S. employ injectable forms of...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 5, 2017--A new study examined the role parental mediation can play in protecting children from...