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Annapolis, MD; Feb. 13, 2017 -- Pest ants like the red imported fire ant could be controlled more effectively with insecticide baits that can withstand...

BOSTON - Many of the toughest decisions faced by cancer patients involve knowing how to use numbers -- calculating risks, evaluating treatment options and figuring...

Credit: John Megahan Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that a decades-old paleontological mystery had...

Loading video... Credit: Philip Doherty The winter habits of Britain's basking sharks have been revealed for the first time. Scientists from the University of Exeter...

Credit: ASU DNA, the stuff of life, may very well also pack quite the jolt for engineers trying to advance the development of tiny, low-cost...

A new analysis indicates that many cancer survivors change their prescription drug use (including skipping doses or requesting cheaper medications) for financial reasons. Published early...

PORTLAND, OR - Nine years ago, SWOG researchers confirmed a new standard of care for patients with incurable gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), who could survive...

Credit: Jamie Vaudrey, UConn, 2016 A new model released today at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by UConn ecologist...

Caltech's Stan Whitcomb, who has been involved with nearly every aspect of the development and ultimate success of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), will...

Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most recent findings on the trials...

BOSTON - Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a leading marine...

Credit: GBSI WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2017 - One year after the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020 challenge and action plan for...

Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At what cost? -- seem to...

Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer is present, you want to...

Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands -- from California's Central Valley...