Vitamin D plays an important part in the human immune response and deficiency can leave individuals less able to fight infections like HIV-1. Now an i...
For more than 30 million years after dinosaurs first appeared, they remained inexplicably rare near the equator, where only a few small-bodied meat-ea...
Most of us don't consider forests a source of pollution. As natural bodies, they should be good for the environment. But a recent study in Japan s...
Adults who use proton pump inhibitors are between 16 and 21 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than people who don't use the commonl...
Funnel-web spider venom contains powerful neurotoxins that instantly paralyze prey (usually insects). Millions of years ago, however, this potent pois...
Will some coral reefs be able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions in Earth's oceans? If so, what will these reefs look like in the future? As ...
Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs most likely do not cause short-term memory loss, according to a Rutgers University and University of Pennsylvania st...
The way insects see and track their prey is being applied to a new robot under development at the University of Adelaide, in the hopes of improving ro...
Computers and water typically don't mix, but in Manu Prakash's lab, the two are one and the same. Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengine...
Researchers in the University of Georgia's Regenerative Bioscience Center are visually capturing the first process of chromosome alignment and sep...