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URBANA, Ill. - What happens when meat scientists get their hands on nearly 8,000 commercially raised pigs? They spend a year running dozens of tests...

Loading video... Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - In recent decades, scientists and land managers have realized the importance of controlled forest fires for...

Credit: Sanil George + Jessica Shartouny A component of the skin mucus secreted by South Indian frogs can kill the H1 variety of influenza viruses,...

The malignant transformation of hepatocytes is the origin of most hepatocellular carcinomas, an aggressive type of liver cancer with high mortality rates. But these cells...

Credit: Nathan Rogers Four hundred and thirty million years ago, long before the evolution of barracudas or sharks, a different kind of predator stalked the...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A certain cytokine, or small protein that helps cells communicate during immune responses, can control whether immune cells promote or suppress...

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Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Storm Maarutha became the first tropical cyclone of 2017 in the Bay of Bengal when it formed...

Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response The remnant clouds associated with former Tropical Cyclone 02W continued to linger in the South China Sea when NASA's...

Credit: Harel WASHINGTON, D.C., April 18, 2017 -- Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new method to extract the static and dynamic structure of...

WASHINGTON D.C., April 18, 2017 -- There are many processes, such as propulsion, in which fluid in a supercritical state, where the temperature and pressure...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Sometimes it takes a lot of trees to see the forest. In the case of the latest discovery made by astronomers...

Credit: JAMA BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study led by Indiana University suggests that mothers' use of antidepressants during early pregnancy does not increase the risk...

Credit: University of Houston Microscopes can offer a detailed look at organisms too small to see with the naked eye, but they have limitations: Tissues...

Credit: Ryan Strutin, International School of Stavanger, Norway The cybersecurity workforce, which is currently struggling to fill seats with qualified talent, may have some newfound...