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Ann Arbor, MI, Feb. 21, 2017 - In the U.S. more than 16 million people with smoking-related illnesses continue to use cigarettes. According to a...

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Bart has developed in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, has received a five-year, $5.1...

With the amazing ability to survey areas in complete darkness, night-vision cameras have revolutionized the security industry. But the materials and technology embodied in current...

Credit: Jennie Brewton / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 - Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States,...

Boston, MA-- Hearing loss affects 360 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Inner ear sensory cells, called hair cells, are responsible for...

Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience In a study published in Cell Reports in February 2017, Matt Rowan, Ph.D., a Post-doctoral researcher in the...

Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system that affects nearly 2.3 million...

Credit: Children's Mercy Kansas City KANSAS CITY, MO -- February 21, 2017 -- Children's Mercy Kansas City today announced it has been named a recipient...

Credit: L.A. Cicero For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible image of the Southern Pacific Ocean's newly formed tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Carpentaria....

Montreal, February 21, 2017 -- Of all the fishy predators in the Great Lakes, few are more destructive than the sea lamprey. There's something of...

Credit: Alan Boss Washington, DC--New planetary formation models from Carnegie's Alan Boss indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant planets orbiting...

PITTSBURGH--Alkaloids are natural nitrogen-containing compounds produced by plants and microbes. These molecules, such as morphine and quinine, are important human medicines. Alkaloids are typically p..

Credit: University of Pennsylvania In order for cancer to spread, malignant cells must break away from a tumor and through the tough netting of extracellular...