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Credit: Andrius Pasukonis In general, male poison frogs of the species Allobates femoralis are observed as very caring and attentive fathers. Eva Ringler and her...

Credit: NeuroVision Imaging LLC SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - NeuroVision Imaging LLC ("NeuroVision") today announced its participation in a new substudy with investigators at the University of...

After three rounds of competition -- one of which involved a public vote -- a software tool developed by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Tens of millions of Americans with lung disease use metered-dose inhalers each day, and new studies by Rice University electrical engineers...

ATLANTA - February 28, 2017 - A new study finds that compared to people born around 1950, when colorectal cancer risk was lowest, those born...

DIPG (Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma) is a rare malignant cerebral tumour in children. It has only a 1% 5-year survival rate, amongst other things because...

Credit: Margherita De Marzio, Gaia Camisasca, Maria Martin Conde, Mauro Rovere and Paola Gallo WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- There are few things more...

WASHINGTON, D.C., February 28, 2017 -- The sight of propeller-like rotating blades positioned high up the pole of a tall horizontal-axis wind turbine (HAWT) may...

Credit: Brown et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2017 -- Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University...

Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. - Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created...

A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible key to developing a new...

Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources for fossil fuels, but a...

The aim of the present article is to compare the structural features of a particular group of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-dependent decarboxylases, namely the group II ?-decarboxylases....

Credit: Cockrell School of Engineering A team of engineers led by 94-year-old John Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2017 -- There's a new trend in agriculture called vertical farming. As humans learned to farm, we...