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Credit: Wits University Why we sleep is one of the enduring unanswered mysteries of modern science. Along with such activities as eating, protecting oneself and...

Credit: Clair Keene Organic farmers have to make hard choices between protecting soil from erosion and controlling weeds. For example, large-scale organic farming relies heavily...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON ? Anyone who uses an employee badge to enter a building may understand how a protein called ENL opens...

ANN ARBOR -- Unavoidable vibrations, such as those on airplanes, cause rigid structures to age and crack, but researchers at the University of Michigan may...

Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can...

Credit: University of Washington Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if...

SEATTLE -- Mar. 1, 2017 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes...

Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one...

Credit: The European Space Agency (ESA) Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions...

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. - Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.8 million in available funding to research...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of up to $766,000 for...

Credit: Candice Emmons, NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC Restoring predator and prey species together helps accelerate ecosystem recovery efforts compared to pursuing restoration of one species at a...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Quitting smoking is hard. Yet success is more likely with strong communication between parts of the brain that inhibit...

KINGSTON/SUDBURY - New research, submitted for publication by the PICO Collaboration, has produced new direct-detection constraints on the existence of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles)...