Month: March 2018

Credit: Laurent Hebert-Dufresne Tropical forests have been called the lungs of the planet. They soak up vast quantities of carbon ...

March 30, 2018 -- Genome Research recently published a paper (Bhattacharya et al. 2018) describing the whole-genome sequencing of the ...

Credit: UT Arlington Last year, 16 U.S. natural disasters caused 362 deaths and a record $306 billion in damages. Hurricanes ...

It seems simple enough: Taking a hard hit to the head can give you a concussion. But, Stanford researchers report ...

Credit: Monash University Every year, more than 100 million people worldwide develop the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhoea, with health consequences ...

Credit: VCU The gut microbiome -- a collection of bacteria and other microbes in the gut -- could be a ...

Credit: Professor Marc McKee, McGill University How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, ...

Credit: University of Texas at Dallas By learning how water is collected by living organisms, including rice leaves and pitcher ...

Modern neuroscience, for all its complexity, can trace its roots directly to a series of pen-and-paper sketches rendered by Nobel ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Despite Latinas' and African-American women's increased risks of perinatal depression and ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Latinos who are the most optimistic are more likely to have ...

Credit: Luca Galuzzi The Sahara Desert has expanded by about 10 percent since 1920, according to a new study by ...

Teenage drivers ages 16 to 19 are three times more likely to get into fatal accidents than their older counterparts. ...

Groups of basking sharks ranging from as few as 30 to nearly 1,400 individual animals have been observed aggregating in ...

A series of six articles appearing in the March issue of The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and ...

Leaders from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) today announced a new five-year collaboration ...

The disease mechanism for adult-onset progressive degenerative diseases begins much earlier than previously thought, according to a Northwestern Medicine study ...

Credit: © Toshiya Nishimura Nagoya University-led study shows for the first time germ cells have an inherent property to feminize ...

Credit: Andrew Morffew In the latest peer-reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, ...

March 29, 2018 -PHILADELPHIA - The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and Chester ...