Girls who frequently consume sugary drinks tend to start their menstrual periods earlier than girls who do not, according to new research published on...
Dust from soil erosion due to wind can affect human health, traffic, and, on a larger scale, climate. Investigators compared different models that qua...
Scientists investigated why Ebola virus is so deadly when it spreads from animals to humans and then from human-to-human contact. The research team lo...
Many health advocates advise people to eat an orange and drink water rather than opt for a serving of sugary juice. But in ACS' Journal of Agricul...
The creation of genetically modified and entirely synthetic organisms continues to generate excitement as well as worry. Such organisms are already ch...
Earth's earliest primates have taken a step up in the world, now that researchers have gotten a good look at their ankles. A new study has found t...
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a population distribution model that provides unprecedented...
Positional cloning is a genetic mapping technique used to pinpoint the location of specific traits of interest, such as disease-causing genes or mutat...
The wild tiger Panthera tigris is considered critically endangered, and it faces unprecedented threats, including habitat loss and fragmentation, depl...
DNA molecules provide the "source code" for life in humans, plants, animals and some microbes. But now researchers report an initial study s...