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Credit: Fritz Wobig China has invested more resources than any other country in reversing deforestation and planting trees. However, given the large scale of these...

Receiving 'likes' on social media posts doesn't make people feel better about themselves or improve their mood if they are down. These are the findings...

Chickens were domesticated from Asian jungle fowl around 6000 years ago. Since domestication they have acquired a number of traits that are valuable to humans,...

Credit: Yuanxi Wang, Penn State. Thinning a material down to a single-atom thickness can dramatically change that material's physical properties. For example, graphene, the best-known...

Credit: Rachel Skubel In recent decades, trusted first aid resources have recommended stings from man o' war (Physalia species) be treated differently from other jellies....

Prostate cancer cells depend on signaling through the androgen receptor (AR) to grow and survive. Many anti-cancer therapies that target ARs are initially successful in...

Credit: National Cancer Institute DURHAM, NC -- Viruses are notorious for taking over their host's operations and using them to their own advantage. But few...

Credit: W.W. Norton In the introduction, University of Washington geologist David R. Montgomery writes that he never thought he'd write an optimistic book about the...

Credit: UT Arlington Bob Woods, a longtime UTA mechanical engineering professor and founder of the UTA FSAE racing team, has been named a 2017 Piper...

Credit: The authors BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA , and CARDIFF, UK -- Two researchers from Zygo Corporation are recipients of the Rudolf Kingslake Medal and Prize...

Credit: Julie O'Connor, Wayne State University DETROIT - Wayne State University received notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes...

Washington, DC (May 2, 2017) It's easy to think in terms of linking genetics to behavior in simple ways. Are you calm or do you...

Credit: Bao Lab As electronics become increasingly pervasive in our lives - from smart phones to wearable sensors - so too does the ever rising...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research from Oregon State University will aim to make eagles less likely to collide with wind-turbine blades. The U.S. Department of...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (May 2, 2017) - Biology must be in a hurry. In balancing speed and accuracy to duplicate DNA, produce...