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Credit: The Morton Arboretum If you had been in northern Canada 45 million years ago, you might have encountered the distant ancestor of all of...

Credit: Kent State University The mental and physical stress on individuals caring for elderly loved ones with chronic and terminal disease is well-documented and known...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Solitary weasel-like animals called tayra might look pretty harmless, but some may actually be incubators for a parasite that...

Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University Biochemical engineers at the Johns Hopkins University have used sequences of DNA molecules to induce shape-changing in water-based gels, demonstrating...

Alison Butler has never met Canadian chemist and philanthropist Alfred Bader, but they have something important in common. Harvard-educated Bader is considered by the American...

New Haven, Conn. -- Scientists have uncovered two closely related cytokines -- molecules involved in cell communication and movement -- that may explain why some...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - People who tend to trust their intuition or to believe that the facts they hear are politically biased are more likely to...

Credit: Illustration: Oliver Day, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Animals in the Goldilocks zone -- neither too big, nor too small, but just the...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 18, 2017--Researchers used gene transfer to block the expression of one of the two main...

An enzyme discovered at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) proves adept at breaking down cellulose fibers regardless of whether...

HOUSTON-(Sept. 18, 2017) - Researchers at Houston Methodist have solved a 100-year-old mystery, providing them a possible key to unlock a pathway for treating diseases...

Credit: MU College of Veterinary Medicine In the United States, therapeutic horseback riding offers equine-assisted therapy to diverse populations, including children and adults who have...

Credit: Binghamton University Electrical and Computer Science Assistant Professor Seokheun Choi BINGHAMTON, NY - A new paper-based sensor patch developed by researchers at Binghamton University,...

Credit: The University of Akron In the colorful world in which we live, colors are significant for not only aesthetics and pleasure, but also for...

New research links the equipping of mobile fruit and vegetable stands with wireless banking devices programmed to accept food stamps to the buying of more...