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Credit: Scott Stewart JACKSON, Tenn. - While recent media reports have condemned a commonly used agricultural pesticide as detrimental to honey bee health, scientists with...

Mission Viejo, Calif. (May 2, 2017) - A new analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data, compared avocado consumers to non-consumers...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) -- a condition that can lead to liver cirrhosis and cancer -- isn't typically detected until it's well advanced. Even...

Credit: NHLBI NIH discovery in mice could lead to new class of medications to fight mid-life obesity A team of scientists led by researchers from...

Credit: NASA/CXC/University of Massachusetts/D. Wang et al.; Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Menlo Park, Calif. -- A mysterious gamma-ray glow at the center of the...

Credit: Bazyleva/NIST Amantadine hydrochloride may be the most common medication you've never heard of. This compound has been around for decades as the basis for...

SEATTLE -- Sarcomas -- cancers of the connective tissues like muscles, joints, fat and bone -- come in dozens of subtypes. Clinical trial results have...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 2, 2017 - Kidney cancer patients may soon have more treatment choices that provide a higher quality of life,...

Credit: Yidong Xia WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2017 -- Most of the world's oil and natural gas reserves may be locked up inside the tiny...

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements...

Credit: Fletcher/Close WASHINGTON, D.C., May 2, 2017 -- When spacecraft and satellites travel through space they encounter tiny, fast moving particles of space dust and...

Chemists at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) headed by Prof. Dr. Svetlana B. Tsogoeva at the Chair of Organic Chemistry I have made research into pharmaceutical...

Credit: MIDAS project, A. Luckman, Swansea University The rift in the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica now has a second branch, which is moving...

Credit: (Photo: KIT) 3D printing by direct laser writing produces micrometer-sized structures with precisely defined properties. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now...

TUCSON and FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- May 1, 2017 -- The Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens (CPTR), an initiative of the Critical Path Institute (C-Path),...