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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...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Immunologic changes observed in an early study of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (MRCC) raised the possibility for a...

Credit: Greg Dunn, Brian Edwards, Will Drinker Today, Popular Science magazine and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announce the winners of the 15th Annual Vizzies...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Ex-Tropical Cyclone Debbie after it made landfall in eastern Queensland and weakened. On March 29, 2017...

Credit: (Photo: KIT) Nanotechnology constantly allows for new records in miniaturization. Reduction of the dimension of electronic components, however, has physical limits that will be...