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Credit: John Poulsen, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. - Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001....

ITHACA, N.Y. - A major study led by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine researchers reveals for the first time that water troughs on farms...

Credit: © D. Loftis/VIMS. Researchers at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards" to monitor and forecast changes...

Better known as glass, silica is a versatile material used in myriad industrial processes, from catalysis and filtration, to chromatography and nanofabrication. Yet despite its...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.), as the greatest source of natural fibre, is one of the most valuable crops grown worldwide. Like most major field crops,...

Credit: Laura Bolt TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers may be able to stop the replication of Ebola virus by mutating its most important protein, according to a paper...

Credit: Xin Zou Creating enough nanovesicles to inexpensively serve as a drug delivery system may be as simple as putting the cells through a sieve,...

ITHACA, N.Y. - A tree will drop hundreds of seedlings over the course of its lifetime, but only a small fraction will ever get to...

Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Infants who consumed soy-based formula as newborns had differences in some reproductive-system cells and tissues, compared to those who used...

How a losing a skin protein can lead to cancer Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is a rare, inherited skin fragility disorder characterized by severe...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - March 12, 2018 - One major problem in treating cancer is identifying the location of small tumors and treating them before they...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the draft Fourth National Climate...

Social connectivity and meaningful social engagement must be promoted as integral components of healthy aging, according to a new collection of articles in the latest...

Credit: Saint Louis University / Ellen Hutti. ST. LOUIS -- In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, Saint Louis University scientists report that they...