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Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At what cost? -- seem to...

Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer is present, you want to...

Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands -- from California's Central Valley...

Credit: © 2017 Tane Sinclair-Taylor Advances in genomic research are helping scientists to reveal how corals and algae cooperate to combat environmental stresses. KAUST researchers...

Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently, she would have to walk...

New research from scientists and economists at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and Environmental Defense Fund identifies the dramatic future impacts...

(BOSTON - February 18, 2017) New Research finds that climate change will cause dramatic impacts in the world's fisheries, but with effective management most fisheries...

Credit: Gary Felton, Penn State What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is likely a three-way battle that...

Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A new study, published Feb. 6...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Creating tiny muscle-powered robots that can walk or swim by themselves -- or better yet, when prompted -- is more complicated than...

Credit: courtesy Joe Roman How do you redeem a place like Gitmo, the notorious U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba? Reboot the naval base...

Credit: Courtesy of MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Imagine being able to view microscopic aspects of a classical nova, a massive stellar explosion on the...

Credit: (NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Deepwater Wonders of Wake) Home to an immense diversity of marine life, the deep ocean also contains...

Gene drives are a rapidly developing field of research that holds promise for addressing persistent problems, such as eradicating mosquito-borne diseases and conserving endangered species,...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA examined the heavy rainfall generated by Tropical Cyclone Dineo as it made landfall in Mozambique and NASA's...