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What is your comfort food? Credit: © lightwavemedia / Fotolia A big bowl of mashed potatoes. What about spaghetti and meatballs? Sushi? Regardless of what you...

Getting caught in fishing nets is a major cause of death for the increasingly endangered New Zealand sea lion, according to new research from...

Four-cell embryo (stock illustration). Credit: © nobeastsofierce / Fotolia Researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have created Expanded Potential Stem Cells (EPSCs)...

Figure 3 from the paper: Simulated changes in climatic controls on hurricane activity between the Younger Dryas (YD, 12.0-12.5 ka) and early Holocene (EH,...

Current trends predict more obese than underweight 5 to 19 year olds by 2022. Credit: © Prazis / Fotolia The number of obese children and adolescents...

JILA's three-dimensional (3-D) quantum gas atomic clock consists of a grid of light formed by three pairs of laser beams. Multiple lasers of various...

Behavioral experiments have shown that women share a sum of money more generously than men. Credit: © suthisak / Fotolia Behavioral experiments have shown that women...

This is an image of hippo teeth products for sale in an ivory shop in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. Credit: Alexandra Andersson Global wildlife trade is...

The researchers planted out different wheat plants in the test field in China. Credit: Jacob Weiner Survival of the fittest is a fundamental concept in Darwin's...

This is a white-lipped peccary, which is likely a key mammal in the carbon dynamics of tropical forest soils. It may influence the carbon...

This image depicts a trap nest containing a mason wasp (Antherhynchium flavomarginatum) pupa, left; and a mason wasp larva, right, that has been parasitized...