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Credit: American Chemical Society Think of life as a house: if DNA molecules are blueprints, then messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are orders, describing the required parts...

Credit: ESO/VISTA VMC The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a dwarf galaxy, the more petite twin of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). They are two...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - New research further illuminates the surprising relationship between blood sugar and brain tumors and could begin to shed light on how certain...

Better known as an anesthetic or as an illicit hallucinogenic drug, ketamine has also long been noted for alleviating depression. But ketamine has not been...

Credit: Photo by Kazuyasu Sakaguchi A new method combining tumor suppressor protein p53 and biomineralization peptide BMPep successfully created hexagonal silver nanoplates, suggesting an efficient..

Credit: University of Bath Thousands of new homes, schools and offices may be using much more energy than they should, and the reason is rather...

Credit: A. McBride The Gulf of Mexico is hugely important to birds that migrate between North America and the Neotropics--almost all migrants have to go...

Credit: Fritz Wobig China has invested more resources than any other country in reversing deforestation and planting trees. However, given the large scale of these...

Receiving 'likes' on social media posts doesn't make people feel better about themselves or improve their mood if they are down. These are the findings...

Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to humans,...

Credit: Yuanxi Wang, Penn State. Thinning a material down to a single-atom thickness can dramatically change that material's physical properties. For example, graphene, the best-known...

Credit: Rachel Skubel In recent decades, trusted first aid resources have recommended stings from man o' war (Physalia species) be treated differently from other jellies....

Prostate cancer cells depend on signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) to grow and survive. Many anti-cancer therapies that target ARs are initially successful in...

Credit: National Cancer Institute DURHAM, NC -- Viruses are notorious for taking over their host's operations and using them to their own advantage. But few...

Credit: W.W. Norton In the introduction, University of Washington geologist David R. Montgomery writes that he never thought he'd write an optimistic book about the...