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Loading video... Credit: Global Fishing Watch New research published in the journal Biological Conservation sheds light on the contentious debate surrounding large Marine Protected Areas...

Credit: American Chemical Society Grease-proof packaging has helped make pizzas, burgers and tacos on-the-go a less messy proposition. However, a new study in the ACS...

Flint, Michigan, continues to grapple with the public health crisis that unfolded as lead levels in its tap water spiked to alarming levels. Now the...

Credit: ESO NGC 6334 is located about 5500 light-years away from Earth, while NGC 6357 is more remote, at a distance of 8000 light-years. Both...

Engineers at MIT have fabricated transparent, gel-based robots that move when water is pumped in and out of them. The bots can perform a number...

Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab Using advanced imaging techniques, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been able to observe...

WASHINGTON -- Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have used animal models to reveal new information about the impact - positive and negative - that...

Background: Even though poor metabolic health is usually associated with obesity, 30 percent of normal-weight adults are believed to be metabolically unhealthy worldwide, according to...

Credit: Howard et al., 2017, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment In the global effort to mitigate carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, all options...

Credit: Sachi Wickramasinghe, UBC One in 12 Canadians aged 55 and older skipped prescriptions due to cost in 2014, the second-highest rate among comparable countries,...

Credit: Virginia Tech A revolutionary portable device invented by Virginia Tech architecture professor Mehdi Setareh with help from students promises to make structural vibration-reducing technolog..

CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology has been used for the first time to successfully produce live cows with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis, reports new research published...

Scientists have created a 'map' linking the shape of breast cancer cells to genes turned on and off, and matched it to real disease outcomes,...

Credit: Candler Hobbs/Alexis Noel: Georgia Tech A frog uses its whip-like tongue to snag its prey faster than a human can blink, hitting it with...

Climate change can have a different impact on male and female fish, shellfish and other marine animals, with widespread implications for the future of marine...