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Credit: Richard Wrangham MADISON, Wis. — In the wild, chimpanzees face any number of dire threats, ranging from poachers to predators to deforestation. That's why...

Credit: (Photo by George Poinar, courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in...

PHILADELPHIA–Palbociclib, a new oral drug whose efficacy in combating breast cancer has been demonstrated alone and in combination with endocrine therapy, also has potential to...

A team of Swedish scientists have used national registries of more than 3.4 million Swedes aged 40 to 80 to study the association between dog...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 27, 2017–With a mortality rate estimated at 10%, the life-threatening condition known as thyroid storm...

Credit: Photo by Roy Caldwell, University of California, Berkeley DURHAM, N.C. — To a mantis shrimp, walking away from a fight doesn't mean being a...

Credit: CREDIT: ©Charlotte Spira/WCS. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo (May 26, 2017) – A new study by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has revealed how mining...

(Edmonton, AB) Groundbreaking research from the University of Alberta has identified the structure of the infectious prion protein, the cause of "mad cow disease" or...

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In both cell cultures and mouse models, a drug used to treat Hepatitis C effectively protected and...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities continued to show strong gains...

Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health According to the American Heart Association, approximately 2,200 Americans die each day from heart attacks, strokes and other...

A combination of two compounds found in red grapes and oranges could be used to improve the health of people with diabetes, and reduce cases...

Credit: University of Exeter Organelles are the functional units of a cell. Like different parts of a production line in a factory, they perform specialised...

Credit: R.M. Brown LAWRENCE — A new paper appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a varied collection of lizards throughout Asia to...

Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Smart windows that act as blinds in the summer and let all the sunlight through in the winter. That's the...