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Credit: University of Utah When it comes to crime and punishment, how judges dish out prison sentences is anything but a game. But students from...

Credit: U.S. Navy / Matthew Poynor WASHINGTON -- Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Chemistry Division have developed a safer alternative to fire-prone...

Credit: Tom Maniatis/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Columbia scientists have identified a gene that allows neurons that release serotonin -- a neurotransmitter that regulates...

While increased carbon dioxide levels theoretically boost the productivity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the world's oceans, because of its "fertilizing" effect, a new study reveals...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- The most barren regions known are the far-flung corners of intergalactic space. In these vast expanses between the galaxies there is...

Credit: Xin Zhang/PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. -- Like two magnets being pulled toward each other, tiny crystals twist, align and slam into each other, but due...

CHICAGO (April 27, 2017): Expectant mothers need not be concerned that they are more prone to develop melanoma, or will have a worse prognosis if...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Storm Frances has formed in the Beagle Gulf, east of the Timor Sea near Darwin, Australia,...

Loading video... Credit: UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences Girls start believing they aren't good at math, science and even computers at a young...

Credit: © D. Malmquist/VIMS. An annual survey led by researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows the abundance of underwater grasses...

Credit: UTA Two University of Texas at Arlington College of Science students have been named recipients of National Science Foundation funds to further their graduate...

Credit: Cell Reports / IDIBELL Researchers from the transformation and metastasis group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Eva González-Suárez, have...

Credit: Photograph courtesy of Medical University of South Carolina immunologist Dr. Chrystal M. Paulos and Dartmouth's Dr. Mary Jo Turk. The molecule CD103 is key...

Credit: Allen Institute Putting a turbo engine into an old car gives it an entirely new life--suddenly it can go further, faster. That same idea...

Credit: Photo: JAGO-Team, GEOMAR Because they build their skeletons from calcium carbonate, cold-water corals such as the globally distributed species Lophelia pertusa are considered particularly...