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The United States has lost its only stand of the massive Key Largo tree cactus in what researchers believe is the first local extinction of...

For those living in cities, space to play sports outside can be a scarcity. Recently, natural grass in parks or public sports courts has often...

A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere developed by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin works much faster than current...

In the campaign to restore Chesapeake Bay, oyster sanctuaries rank among the most hotly contested strategies. But new research suggests these no-harvest areas are working,...

University of Cincinnati researchers have pioneered an animal model that sheds light on the role an understudied organ in the brain has in repairing damage...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – While distress is well-documented in patients with sickle cell disease, sources of distress and how patients manage distress have not been well...

HOUSTON – (July 8, 2024) – Advanced materials are an important point of innovation for areas critical to national security such as energy, defense, aeronautics...

Hazards posed by using data-centric methods to engineer biology, have been identified by experts at the University of Bristol with the aim of making future...

In a recent discovery poised to enhance agricultural resilience, scientists have demystified the elaborate cold resistance mechanisms of the white water lily—a plant that flourishes...

WOODS HOLE, Mass. -- It sounds like science fiction, what today’s microscopes invite us to see. That may explain why nearly 100 excited people, a...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a ‘band-aid’ or plaster that measures body ‘biomarkers’ that can indicate health or disease through...

Extraordinary amounts of energy, water, and capital are put into food systems. However, anywhere from 30 to 40 percent of the food that is produced...

In 2020, suicide ranked as the third leading cause of death for adults aged 18 to 20 years in the United States.  Firearms were implicated...

Fukuoka, Japan —The climate crisis is hitting home with more frequent extreme weather events. Companies, particularly those in high-emission industries, are major contributors to global...

CLEVELAND—There’s only one U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy for an inherited retinal disease, and dozens of retinitis pigmentosa (RP) genes for which no therapy...