Mexico City once topped lists of places with the worst air pollution in the world. Although efforts to curb emissions have improved the situation, tiny…
The signals the researchers detected originated in dendritic cells – the sentinels of the immune system that identify microscopic invaders – and was received…
But scientists in Montana have found that through complex community interactions among deer mice, native plants and seeds, the presence of an introduced fly…
Amidst the semi-arid stretches of Phoenix, a visitor might blink twice at the sight of a sailboat cutting across the horizon. Tempe Town Lake, on the northern…
Using global satellite data, FSU geography Professor James B. Elsner, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor James P. Kossin and FSU postdoctoral researcher…
The development of powerful supercomputers capable of analyzing decades of data in the blink of an eye mark a technological milestone capable of bringing…
“We show that men in upper range of the normal distribution of serum calcium subsequently have an almost three-fold increased risk for fatal prostate cancer,”…
International research reveals that as cycling participation increases, a cyclist is far less likely to collide with a motor vehicle or suffer injury and death…
Both countries will use the resulting data to establish the outer limits of the continental shelf, according to the criteria set out in the Convention on the…
Using two abundant and relatively inexpensive elements, Boston College chemists have produced nanonets, a flexible webbing of nano-scale wires that multiplies…
The degree studied the relationship between the speed of growth of young dogs and the development of common skeletal diseases such as elbow dysplasia and hip…
Colorectal adenomas, the precursor polyps in virtually all colorectal cancers, occur infrequently in younger adults, but the rate sharply increases after age…
Researchers at Mayo Clinic and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) have revealed that eosinophils, a particular type of white blood cell, exert a…
The research team combined data on water chemistry, the distribution of five “nuisance invaders” and boating activity from the Great Lakes region. The results…
Parents expect to pass on their eye or hair color, their knobby knees or their big feet to their children through their genes. But they don't expect to pass on…
However, free radicals should by no means be considered as being exclusively destructive. On the contrary, processes such as energy metabolism (in the…