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Fossil holds new insights into how fish evolved onto land
University of Calgary Professor Jason Anderson, right, and doctoral student Jason Pardo published a paper in Nature about new insights into the ancient Scottish...
Flooding risk: America’s most vulnerable communities
Thousands of homes were devastated by flooding in inland communities in Louisiana in August 2016.
Credit: Nina Lam, LSU
Floods are the natural disaster that kill...
Extra-virgin olive oil preserves memory, protects brain against Alzheimer’s
This is Domenico Praticò, MD, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology and the Center for Translational Medicine at the Lewis Katz School...
Parkinson’s is partly an autoimmune disease, study finds/-*/
Autoimmunity plays a role in Parkinson's disease, according to new research.
Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia
Researchers have found the first direct evidence that autoimmunity...
New inhibitor drug shows promise in relapsed leukemia
A drug offers new hope in acute myeloid leukemia.
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A new drug shows promise in its ability to target one of...
Chemistry of sea spray particles linked for first time to formation process
A "film" drop (red) and "jet" drop (blue) from bursting bubble filmed 8 milliseconds apart.
Credit: Dale Stokes
A team of researchers led by the University...
Sustainable ethanol from carbon dioxide? A possible path
Stanford scientists have designed a copper catalyst that produces ethanol from carbon dioxide and water.
Credit: Mark Shwartz/Stanford University
Most cars and trucks in the United...
Tiny fossils reveal backstory of the most mysterious amphibian alive
Chinlestegophis jenkinsi was a tiny subterranean carnivore and is an ancient relative of frogs and salamanders.
Credit: Illustration by Jorge Gonzalez
Researchers have determined that the...
Mapping how words leap from brain to tongue
Most adults can quickly and effortlessly recall as many as 100,000 regularly used words when prompted, but how the brain accomplishes this has long...
A wooden toe: Swiss Egyptologists study 3000-year-old prosthesis
Toe prosthesis of a female burial from the Theban tomb TT95, early first millennium BC. Egyptian Museum Cairo, JE100016a.
Credit: University of Basel, LHTT. Image:...
Star’s birth may have triggered another star birth, astronomers say
Protostar FIR 3 (HOPS 370) with outflow that may have triggered the formation of younger protostar FIR 4 (HOPS 108, location marked with red...
