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The world's "better" countries, with greater access to healthcare, experience much higher rates of cancer incidence than the world's "worse off" countries, according to new...

Massive amounts of plastic bits that are dangerous to aquatic life are washing into the oceans and into even the most pristine waters. But how...

Credit: American Chemical Society Wearable sensors are revolutionizing the tech-world, capable of tracking processes in the body, such as heart rates. They're even becoming fashionable,...

Credit: Park J. et al, Advanced Materials (2017) IBS scientists at the Center for Self-Assembly and Complexity, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), invented...

Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have identified a naturally occurring wheat gene that, when turned off, eliminates self-pollination but still allows cross-pollination -...

The damage caused to beaches by extreme storms on exposed energetic coastlines and the rate at which they recover can now be accurately predicted thanks...

Credit: Donald Danforth Plant Science Center ST. LOUIS, MO, October 11, 2017 - The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, one of the world's largest independent...

Credit: Rachel E. McNeish Restoration projects to remove invasive plants can make a positive impact on native plant species. But a new study featured in...

Credit: Donna Burton, U.S. Government Work LAWRENCE -- As U.S. cities begin to plan to adapt to impacts from climate change, local decision makers face...

Seniors need twice as long as young adults to realize they are falling, a delay that puts them at increased risk for serious injury, according...

Credit: Deborah Silliman, UTSA College of Engineering Vikram Kapoor, an assistant professor in The University of Texas at San Antonio Department of Civil and Environmental...

Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have determined that the Pacific Northwest was home to one of the Earth's largest known volcanic...

Credit: Paul Dent, Ph.D. Blocking the function of the Ras oncogenes is considered by many scientists to be the "holy grail" of cancer therapeutics because...

Credit: Alex Holt/NIST Cone snails have inspired humans for centuries. Coastal communities have often traded their beautiful shells like money and put them in jewelry....

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) A team of developmental biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Dominique Alfandari, with others at MIT, report...