The fatal shooting of Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, set off a national wave of dialogue...

IMAGE: Functional MRI scans show areas in the brains of poor children with normal connectivity highlighted in red and blue,...

Alexandria, VA - Toba volcano erupted 74,000 years ago, and is thought to have been the largest eruption in the...

In an article published ahead of print on November 24, 2015 in the journal Diabetes (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db15-0930), researchers from...

NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured an image of newborn Tropical Cyclone Victor in the South Pacific Ocean. On Jan. 15 a...

IMAGE: NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured this image of the remnants of Tropical Depression Pali in the North Central Pacific on...

IMAGE: Just outside the tiny town of Glenrock, Wyoming the footprints of a 66-million-year-old monster are cemented in stone. This...

New research on butterfly genomes has revealed that the genetic components that produce different splotches of colour on wings can...

(Duke University) Spending time in close contact with others means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may...

IMAGE: Two chimpanzees interact in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Credit: Steffen Foerster, Duke University Spending time in close contact with...

Biologists who use molecular data to study evolutionary dynamics between closely related organisms, such as populations, are constantly searching for...

IMAGE: Between 1999 and 2013 in the United States, between 279 (in 2000) to 507 (in 2012) people were killed...

IMAGE: This is K.C. Nicolaou. Credit: Rice University Rice University organic chemist K.C. Nicolaou has won the Wolf Prize in...

ATLANTA-January 14, 2016--A new report describes cancer among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs), and reports striking variation...

IMAGE: Rear Adm. Mat Winter, chief of naval research, discusses game-changing technology for the warfighter during a keynote address at...

(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Study led by world-renowned cardiologist Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., to...

IMAGE: The FDA recently approved a new Transcarotid Artery Revascularization (TCAR) procedure that utilizes the ENROUTE® Transcarotid Neuroprotection and Stent...

The 2016 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), the American Society...

IMAGE: This is the NIST concept for DNA sequencing through a graphene nanopore. Credit: Smolyanitsky/NIST Researchers at the National Institute...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Pediatric researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a key component of the pathogenesis of...