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Credit: Tatjana Baibakova / 123rf A team led by Motonari Uesugi, professor and deputy director of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), found...

Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which...

Credit: Professor Tetsuya Kida Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a group of carbon-based chemicals with low evaporation or vaporization points. Some VOCs are harmful to...

Amsterdam, February 1, 2017 - Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and solutions, and the International Federation of Automatic Control...

Washington, DC, February 1, 2017 - Early predictors of anxiety and depression may be evident in the brain even at birth, suggests a study published...

Newton, Mass. (Feb. 1, 2017) - Many Americans, with the start of the New Year, will resolve to cut back on fast food to avoid...

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...