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(Cornell University) Human-caused habitat loss looms as the greatest threat to some North American breeding birds. The problem will be most severe on their wintering...

Credit: Steven Park Just as parents are not the root of all their children's problems, a single gene mutation can't be blamed for complex brain...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 24, 2017) - Injury or disease in combination with too little vitamin D can be bad for the window...

New Orleans, LA - Research conducted by Jason Middleton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans School...

COLLEGE PARK -- Engineers at the University of Maryland have invented an entirely new kind of battery. It is bio-compatible because it produces the same...

URBANA, Ill. - Research from the University of Illinois is helping swine producers know what they're getting when they buy soybean meal from different countries....

Credit: © 2015 MBARI MOSS LANDING, CA--An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B describes two remarkably different hydrothermal vent fields...

Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Tiny eel-like creatures called nematodes are surrounding us. While they can be free-living (a cup of soil or seawater...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had...

Credit: Deanna Dent, Arizona State University Alzheimer's disease tragically ravages the brains, memories and ultimately, personalities of its victims. Now affecting 5 million Americans, Alzhe..

Credit: Carlos Ortiz-Ramírez, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Glutamate receptors play a central role in the human nervous system. Scientists estimate 90 percent of the human...

Credit: Photo: Patrick Cabrol Copyrights: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) Using the largest and most informative molecular phylogenetic dataset ever analysed, evolutionary biolo..

Credit: Illustration courtesy of Ken Caldeira. Earth image courtesy of NASA. Geoengineering is a catch-all term that refers to various theoretical ideas for altering Earth's...

DETROIT - The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae - or V. cholerae - causes cholera, an infectious and often fatal disease of the small intestine. The...

Credit: Sobolevsky lab/Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (July 24, 2017)?Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have captured the first three-dimensional snapshots of th..