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In small amounts, vanilla flavoring enhances the taste of our baked goods, desserts and ice cream. But making it synthetically, which is the most common...

Public health officials are increasingly concerned over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The bacteria have developed resistance to a number of treatments, even antibiotics of last...

In the 1960s, the introduction of fabric softeners transformed rough, scratchy clothes into softer, more comfortable garments. But recently, the products' popularity has dipped in...

On March 6, President Donald Trump signed a second executive order to suspend immigration from six predominately Muslim countries, this time excluding Iraq from the...

Credit: Frank Ceballos | University of Kansas LAWRENCE - Common sense might dictate that for an object to move from one point to another, it...

Credit: University of Houston Zhifeng Ren, a University of Houston physicist and a principal investigator with the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, has launched...

Credit: Saarland University These tests produce millions of valid program inputs within minutes. In this manner the researchers can automatically extract the required information from...

Credit: Waisman Center/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have made a surprising and potentially crucial discovery about Alexander disease, a rare...

Credit: Credits: NASA/NRL Once a tropical storm, now a sub-tropical storm, the remnants of the tropical low pressure area formerly known as 11S was spotted...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that African-Americans have measurable differences in the number and type of bacteria...

Credit: Jennifer LaVista, USGS Public domain Arid and semiarid ecosystems are expected to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, which may affect soil...

(Chalmers University of Technology) More efficient sensors are needed to be able to detect environmental pollution. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have proposed a...

An international team of astronomers has observed evidence of a star that whips around a black hole at a rate of nearly twice an hour....

Credit: Erika Nesvold Washington, DC -- When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material...

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Tom Bridgman Earth's radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped regions of charged particles encircling our planet, were discovered more than 50 years..