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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...

New Rochelle, NY, June 16, 2016–Women with premenstrual symptoms (PMS) including mood swings, weight gain/bloating, and abdominal cramps/back pain have elevated levels of C-reactive protein...

Credit: Jerome Waldispuhl You may not think of yourself in this way – but in some ways your body is just a host for hundreds...

Credit: Kessler Foundation. East Hanover, NJ -Oct. 6, 2017. Americans with disabilities continue to close in on pre-recession employment levels with yet another month of...

Credit: Courtesy of Marc Ancrenaz Washington, DC– Bornean orangutans living in forests impacted by human commerce seek areas of denser canopy enclosure, taller trees, and...

Credit: Qing Wang, Penn State Firefighters entering burning buildings, athletes competing in the broiling sun and workers in foundries may eventually be able to carry...

Crystals are solid materials composed of microscopic building blocks arranged in highly ordered patterns. They have countless applications, ranging from metallurgy to jewellery to electronics....

IMAGE: Journal of Women's Health published monthly, is a core multidisciplinary journal dedicated to the diseases and conditions that hold greater risk for or are...

Credit: Maharishi University of Management The rate of US drug-related fatalities fell 30.4% nationwide from 2007 to 2010 due to the reductions in societal stress...