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(Aarhus University) Newborn humpback whales 'whisper' to their mothers to avoid being overheard by killer whales, researchers have discovered. The recordings -- the first obtained...

Geneva, Switzerland, April 26, 2017 - Lung cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors may be at increased risk of adverse events after receiving the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 25, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $4.8 million in available...

Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long that dwells in the foul...

Credit: © Jean-Marc Alliot - IRIT (CNRS/INP Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Université Toulouse Capitole). The ELO system, which most chess federations us..

Credit: Gray Lab Our bodies are made of biomolecules like proteins, nucleic acids, fats and sugars. These biomolecules are folded into specific 3D structures --...

Credit: (Graphic courtesy of the Department of Energy) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The Department of Energy has chosen five more small, clean-energy businesses to work with...

Credit: Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute Cancer is often able to craftily outwit the best techniques modern medicine has developed to treat it. In...

Credit: Peter Frey/UGA Athens, Ga. - High-fat foods are often the primary target when fighting obesity, but sugar-laden "diet" foods could be contributing to unwanted...

Credit: UTA Shannon Beston, a third-year Ph.D. student in biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, was selected to receive funds from the National...

Twenty-three experts involved in the study "Antarctica and the strategic plan for biodiversity," recently published in PLoS Biology, debunked the popular view that Antarctica and...

Credit: LANL LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 24, 2017-- A new computer modeling study from Los Alamos National Laboratory is aimed at making epidemiological models more...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Depression 03W formed in the Pacific Ocean west of Guam on April 24, 2017, and data from...

MAYWOOD, IL - Prostate cancer patients are willing to pay up to $2,000 of their own money for a new high-tech biopsy technique that significantly...

Credit: Dr Y. Kikuchi et al. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000219 An international collaboration of neuroscientists has shed light on how the brain helps us to predict what is...