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BROOKLYN, New York - The U.S. Department of Transportation has selected a research consortium led by the New York University Tandon School of Engineering to...

WASHINGTON - Recent scientific and technological advances have the potential to improve assessment of public health risks posed by chemicals, yet questions remain how best...

ATLANTA -January 5, 2017- A steady decline over more than two decades has resulted in a 25% drop in the overall cancer death rate in...

WASHINGTON (Jan. 5, 2017) -- A large international survey on sun exposure behaviors and skin cancer detection found there are many imperfections and geographical inequalities...

Credit: Photo courtesy of VIMS. Earth's oceans have soaked up about a third of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere by humans through use...

Credit: J. Ruvalcaba, STRI Thirty years ago a mysterious disease wiped out long-spined black sea urchins across the Caribbean, leading to massive algal overgrowth that...

Credit: Peter and Michelle Wong The exhaustive international trade of wildlife has pushed many species to the brink of extinction. Coincidentally, many of the same...

Credit: Dr. Qiu Jianwen, Dr. Stella Wong and Mr. Gomen See Hong Kong is best known as a bustling harbour, a financial centre and a...

Credit: Dr. Mingqiang Wang A group of beautiful snout moths from China was revised by three scientists from the Institute of Zoology at the Chinese...

Philadelphia, PA, January 5, 2017 - Treatment with an inhibitor of 12/15-lipoxygenase, an enzyme elevated in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), reverses cognitive decline and...

Since the first reports on a dramatic increase in microplastic contamination in the sea twenty years ago, research efforts have intensified worldwide. A review in...

Credit: Marco Tedesco/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory When summer temperatures rise in Greenland and the melt season begins, water pools on the surface, and sometimes disappears down...

Credit: Kambiz Rahbar, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, and Wolfgang Peter Fendler, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Munich Reston, Va....

Credit: Peter H. Becker Many birds choose partners for life - it offers many advantages and often improves a couple's breeding output. New research reveals...

Credit: Photo by Andrea Kratzenberg. New research conducted by the University of Adelaide shows there is no greater risk of Salmonella contamination in the production...