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Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents -- enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans, these thoroughfares are a boon,...

This story begins in the kelp forest and ends with a very important climate change message: All is not lost -- at least not for...

Each day, normal human cell tissues express a protein known as p53 that wages war against potential malignancies. However, between 30 and 40 percent of...

(PHILADELPHIA) -- Skin melanoma, a particularly insidious cancer, accounts for the vast majority skin cancer deaths and is one of the most common cancers in...

In response to America's opioid crisis, public health departments and community organizations across the country have started to train opioid users to reverse overdoses in...

Credit: NIST The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now providing a new measurement service that can improve the quality of magnetic resonance...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina A new device worn like a visor can detect emergent large-vessel occlusion in patients with suspected stroke with 92...

Arlington, Va., March 26, 2018 -- Infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs are inextricably linked, according to a joint position paper...

Credit: Bernie Poitras, Canadian Glycomics Network (GlycoNet) People diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer have a five-year survival rate of more than 93 per cent. However,...

University of Sheffield analysis considered the rapid switch from coal to natural gas generation in Britain in 2016, and found a meaningful carbon price was...

Credit: (Credit: Chickmarkley) Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a new...

Blue-green algae are one of the oldest organisms in the world and have an important role to play in many ecosystems on Earth. However, it...

EDMONTON (Monday, March 26, 2018)--Half of Alberta's upland boreal forest is likely to disappear over the next century due to climate change, a new study...

Credit: UCF: Karen Norum The Department of Homeland Security could benefit from a reliable, real-time instrument that could scan the atmosphere for toxic agents in...

EPFL biologists and geneticists have uncovered how the circadian clock orchestrates the 24-hour cycle of gene expression by regulating the structure of chromatin, the tightly...