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Credit: (Photo: Anna Kühnel) The diversity of plants and animals in Earth's arctic regions is moderate. Tropical latitudes in contrast are teeming with different species...

Credit: Insilico Medicine Summary: Clinical trial failure rates for small molecules in oncology exceed 94% for molecules previously tested in animals and the costs to...

Credit: Kevin Jiang/Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (December 22, 2016) - Female fireflies have long known that the best romances are with a male firefly who offers...

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY -- Building nanomaterials with features spanning just billionths of a meter requires extraordinary precision. Scaling up that construction while...

UConn medicinal chemists have developed experimental antibiotics that kill MRSA, a common and often deadly bacteria that causes skin, lung, and heart infections. The success...

Reindeer may be best known for pulling Santa's sleigh, but a new study suggests they may have a part to play in slowing down climate...

Credit: Mindy C. Miller/UF Health GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- As cancerous tumors fester in the body, they need an ever-increasing blood supply to deliver the oxygen...

Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. A multi-partner program coordinated by UT Extension forestry specialist David Mercker has been awarded the 2016 Family Forests Education Award by...

Credit: Photo courtesy UTIA. Shirley Hastings, director of UT Extension Strategic Planning and former associate dean of Family and Consumer Sciences, has been honored as...

Credit: Photo courtesy CSSA. Among the awards presented by the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) at its November 6-9 annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona,...

It's no secret that discrimination is stressful for those who experience it, but turns out the issue is more than skin deep -- these stressors...

Loading video... Credit: Tracy Langkilde, Penn State Whether a wild cottonmouth snake will attempt to strike in an encounter depends on its baseline stress level,...

Credit: Linda Koffmar A recent study from Uppsala University shows how smartphones can be used to make movies of living cells, without the need for...

Cambridge, Mass. - December 21, 2016 - When Regina Dugan, Facebook's Vice President of Engineering and head of Building 8, spoke at Harvard University on...

Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State A new concept in energy harvesting could capture energy currently wasted due to its characteristic low frequency and use it...