A new study documents how Southern Californians are chronically being exposed to toxic airborne chemicals called plasticizers ...

Researchers have discovered a plausible evolutionary setting in which nucleic acids—the fundamental genetic building blocks ...

Targeted livestock grazing is a successful and cost-efficient method to manage cheatgrass in the U.S. western Great Plains ...

Researchers have developed a banana plant that is resistant to both fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) and black sigatoka, two of ...

Out of 225 people awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, only five have been women. This is a very small number, and certainly ...

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Measuring the Hubble constant, the rate at which the universe is expanding, is an active area of research among astronomers ...

Some proteins in the human body are easy to block with a drug; they have an obvious spot in their structure where a drug can ...

Seven years after actor Alyssa Milano's tweet launched the #MeToo movement into the global consciousness, attitudes towards ...

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As climate change rapidly transforms Arctic marine systems, the dramatic image of a polar bear struggling on a melting ice ...

Over the past decades, heavy and more frequent rainfall and dry spells in southern Africa have caused loss and damage to ...