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COLUMBIA, Mo. - The loss of fertile topsoil from agricultural fields is an economic problem for modern farmers. When runoff water washes topsoil from agricultural...

Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 1 million older Americans depend on nursing...

Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA satellite data provided a look at the cloud cover and rainfall rates within Tropical Cyclone Vardah. The...

Credit: McMaster University, Faculty of Engineering HAMILTON, Ont. (Dec. 13, 2016) -- Dr. Ali Emadi of McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering has been named a...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 13, 2016 -- Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the U.S., making early, reliable diagnosis and treatment a priority...

If we put the galaxies for which we have the relevant data into a graph relating the mass of stars in each galaxy with the...

Credit: Journal of Investigative Dermatology Philadelphia, PA, December 13, 2016 - Basal cell carcinoma (BCC), a type of skin cancer, is the most common form...

Despite being on the market for nearly a decade, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing continues to be controversial among experts and raises concerns among health care...

Credit: Xiaojiang Chen, USC For years, scientists have puzzled over what prompts the intertwined double-helix DNA to open its two strands and then start replication....

Credit: CSU Photography Wildlife disease experts at Colorado State University are investigating whether a test developed to detect early-stage chronic wasting disease in deer might...

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Although mutations in the PARK2 gene that encodes the Parkin protein are associated with developing early-onset Parkinson's disease (PD), much remains...

Credit: Nereo Kalebic/EMBL For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch - even just their clothes touching their skin - can be agony. Scientists...

Credit: Hiroshi Yoshinada A group of Japanese researchers developed a prototype construction robot for disaster relief situations. This prototype has drastically improved operability and mobility...

Credit: Giampaolo Pisano, Cardiff University WASHINGTON -- Researchers have created a new magnetic mirror-based device that could one day help cosmologists discover new details about...

Credit: Soterix Medical Inc The EEG-Guided High-Definition tES (HD-tES) system is a breakthrough in allowing identification of brain regions associated with brain disease and then...