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Credit: Stellenbosch University A team from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Tygerberg Academic Hospital has recently performed a second penis transplant, making it the first...

Credit: UPV/EHU Parkinson's disease is currently the second most widespread neurogenerative pathology. It is a motor disorder caused by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in...

Credit: ECDC/European Centre for Disease prevention and Control The incidence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection has been steadily increasing across the countries of the...

Credit: Courtesy Utah Division of State History On July 22, 1847, a scouting party from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stood above...

Credit: © Photo: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn How old were the oldest dinosaurs? This question remains largely unanswered. The natural life span of these long-extinct giants...

Credit: Ullas Karanth / WCS (Bangalore, India (03/29/17) – A new methodology developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) may revolutionize...

Sophisticated prenatal techniques, not yet in clinical practice, offer the potential to prevent a cruel multi-system genetic disease passing from mother to child long before...

Credit: National University of Singapore People tend to become more generous as they age. This certainly holds true when it comes to helping strangers, according...

Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of collecting samples at great depths....

TORONTO, April 20, 2016 — Who will win the women's singles tennis title at the 2016 Rio Olympics this August? That's a question recent York...

Credit: Alonso Nichols, Tufts University MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Massachusetts (Oct. 24, 2016) — David R. Walt, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious and exclusive National Academy...

Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), 2017 In a two-day conference organised in collaboration between the Maltese Presidency of the Council of...

Credit: Vladimir Lukhtanov What looked like a population of a common butterfly species turned out to be a whole new organism, and, moreover – one...

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it is providing incubator space and associated scientific resources on...

Credit: Thorin Jonsson The eggs of some butterfly and moth species vary to give females control over the paternity of their offspring, according to new...