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UBC scientists have scanned the genome of cannabis plants to find the genes responsible for giving various strains their lemony, skunky or earthy flavors, an...

Credit: NASA In 2011, researchers observed something that should be impossible -- a massive bloom of phytoplankton growing under Arctic sea ice in conditions that...

Credit: Image by Yelena Khavina, courtesy of the MIPT press office In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from the Institute of Theoretical and...

Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought...

Credit: American Chemical Society Since ancient times, people have used lustrous silver, platinum and gold to make jewelry and other adornments. Researchers have now developed...

Discoveries of hormones related to weight and appetite in the '90s helped spur a search for obesity treatments targeting those hormones-- with disappointing results. Now...

Credit: Photo by Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University Growing up on an island or mainland location can shape the way children think about wildlife,...

Credit: Mary Drewnoski It makes sense that a 1,200 pound Angus cow would place quite a lot of pressure on the ground on which it...

Credit: Dr Mark Lee 27th March 2017; Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research...

(De Gruyter Open) Following a new NASA bill, passed in March by the US Congress and which authorizes $19.5 billion spending for space exploration in...

Credit: Western University, Ontario, Canada For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun has been playing a cosmic...

Credit: Justin Kelley/MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (March 29, 2017) -- Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer in the United States, with...

Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Nearly 50 years into the "war" on cancer, doctors possess weapons that once would have seemed magical in their tumor-killing...

Credit: Brewing Institute, Prague Stashed away and long-forgotten, a trio of century-old bottled beers recently discovered in the Czech Republic could help scientists better understand...

ATLANTA - March 29, 2017 - The proportion of women in the United States undergoing surgery for early-stage breast cancer who have preventive mastectomy to...