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Credit: University of British Columbia Cyclists should be riding at speeds between 12 and 20 kilometres per hour on city roads, while pedestrians should be...

Baltimore, Md. – June 15, 2016. It's hard to think of the typical muffin, often loaded with saturated fat and a high calorie count, as...

Credit: Children's Hospital Colorado Aurora, Colo. (Oct. 25, 2017) – As reported in the Journal of Perinatology, researchers from Children's Hospital Colorado (Children's Colorado) rec..

Credit: © A. Colden/Virginia Institute of Marine Science. We're all familiar with tipping points, when crossing what might seem a minor threshold can lead to...

Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure of DNA. In a new...

Credit: Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have discovered a way to make influenza visible to the naked eye,...

As world leaders convene in Washington, DC this week for the Climate Action 2016 summit, a new report by Maryland public health leaders, the Maryland...

Credit: NIAID An experimental treatment developed from cattle plasma for Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus infection shows broad potential, according to a small clinical...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors — even as...

Australia's largest predator, the dingo, is resistant to one of the main threats to its survival as a species — changes to skull shape brought...

Credit: Keena Kareem, LSU The first 1.5 billion years of Earth's evolution is subject to considerable uncertainty due to the lack of any significant rock...

DALLAS – July 21 2016 – Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new way that tuberculosis bacteria get into the body, revealing...

Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON – (Jan. 27, 2017) – Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according to a study by researchers...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 13, 2017–A study of all 3rd-5th grade youth in one U.S. county examined differences in...

Credit: (Patrick McGuire / UC Davis) Sequencing the bread wheat genome has long been considered an almost insurmountable task, due to its enormous size and...