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Credit: Rutgers University Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new...

Credit: Aaron Satkoski, UC grad student on the excursion. Somewhere between Earth's creation and where we are today, scientists have demonstrated that some early life...

Credit: American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2016 -- An estimated 133 billion pounds of food gets thrown out every year in the United States,...

Credit: University of Alberta Heart medication taken in combination with chemotherapy reduces the risk of serious cardiovascular damage in patients with early-stage breast cancer, according...

Credit: John Calambokidis, Cascadia Research Collective Scientists have long used satellite tags to track blue whales along the West Coast, learning how the largest animals...

Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science is honoring Vara Prasad, Kansas State University distinguished professor of...

Credit: Credit: NIH In a small study of young or recently retired NFL players, researchers at Johns Hopkins report finding evidence of brain injury and...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- They come from war zones and terrorist strongholds. From places where being the "wrong" religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation is a...

Credit: NASA On Sept. 21, 2014, NASA scientists and engineers launched RapidScat toward the orbiting International Space Station, 250 miles above the Earth's surface, with...

Credit: Adam Hammond/University of Chicago WASHINGTON, D.C., November 29, 2016 -- Fluorescence is an incredibly useful tool for experimental biology and it just got easier...

Credit: Pavel Tomkovich An international research group, including a scientist from the Zoological Museum (Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University) has conducted a comparative...

ANN ARBOR--When faced with potentially life-threatening diseases such as cancer, people often seek information about the disease and support from peers. The best resources involve...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Myocarditis, an assortment of heart disorders often caused by infection and inflammation, is known to be difficult to diagnose and treat. But...

Credit: Lena Mustonen/Umeå University A survey of nearly 1000 households in the north Indian state of Uttarakhand showed that six percent of adults were identified...

A joint study conducted by researchers from the universities of Liverpool and Manchester has found a link between birth defects and certain types of epilepsy...