E-cigarette use among teenagers is growing in the U.S., and Hawaii teens take up e-cigarette use at higher rates than their mainland counterparts, a n...
Leading conservation scientists from around the world have called for a substantial role for nuclear power in future energy-generating scenarios in or...
The Greenland Ice Sheet is the second-largest body of ice on Earth. It covers an area about five times the size of New York State and Kansas combined,...
Nearly 269,000 tons of plastic pollution may be floating in the world's oceans, according to a study published December 10, 2014 in the open-acces...
Hair loss can be devastating for the millions of men and women who experience it. Now scientists are reporting that a substance from honeybee hives mi...
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have uncovered the mechanism that enables the enzyme Lecithin: retinol acyltransfera...
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important greenhouse gas that doesn't receive as much notoriety as carbon dioxide or methane, but a new study confirms t...
Scientists have named the first definite horned dinosaur species from the Early Cretaceous in North America, according to a study published December 1...
When it comes to remembering where a tasty titbit was left, female great tit birds are miles ahead of their male counterparts. This ability might have...
Off the West Coast of the United States, methane gas is trapped in frozen layers below the seafloor. New research from the University of Washington sh...