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From vanishing sea ice to blistering air temperatures to zombie fires, climate change is reshaping the Arctic. And that transformation may be permanent, researchers said.

A single strand of hair in a crime scene contains many clues that can help identify a perpetrator. In a recent study, scientists have combined two modern techniques, called surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and X-ray f...

New study in mice finds that a high-fat diet allows cancer cells to outcompete immune cells for fuel, impairing immune function and accelerating tumor growth. Cancer cells do so by rewiring their metabolisms to increase ...

Reductive stress promotes protein aggregation in neuroblastoma cells and impairs neurogenesis.

People with pre-diabetes or diabetes who live in ozone-polluted areas may have an increased risk for an irreversible disease with a high mortality rate. These findings are especially important today in the midst of the C...

Understanding how individual we all are means grappling with genetics and neuroscience. Unique: The new science of human individuality by David Linden is a great place to start

When wounded, our body sets off a complex immune response. As part of it, the wound produces small antimicrobial molecules to fight off the pathogens locally. Researchers have found that these natural antibiotics can als...

Updated national guidelines for treating infections caused by the deadly superbug Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) have been examined and approved.

Protein therapies are often more potent and selective toward their biochemical targets than other types of drugs, particularly small molecules. However, proteins are also more likely to be quickly degraded by enzymes or ...

Investigators identified 565 mammalian species that have been used to source products used in traditional medicine around the world, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

A group of 19th-century sisters excavated and protected the House of Jesus in Nazareth. Here's their story.

Tasmanian devils infected with a transmissible jaw cancer become socially isolated and interact with others less as the tumour grows, which could help limit the spread

An innovative new model helps predict how damaging conditions in the brain can be triggered by complex dynamics in branching neural networks.

Researchers discovered that most people no longer produce the Siglec-12 protein, but some of those who do are at twice the risk for advanced cancer.

A large meta-analysis of breast cancer survivors of childbearing age indicated that they are less likely than the general public to get pregnant, and they face higher risk of certain complications such as preterm labor. ...

Whether you are a happy carouser or a small-time tippler could depend on a hormone produced by your liver that tells your brain to stop boozing

Astronomers have found a pair of enormous bubbles of X-rays above and below the Milky Way, which were probably created by our galaxy's supermassive black hole

Scientists have produced a tomato enriched in the Parkinson's disease drug L-DOPA in what could become a new, affordable source of one of the world's essential medicines.

One of the chief obstacles facing quantum computer designers--correcting the errors that creep into a processor's calculations--could be overcome with a new approach by physicists from the National Institute of Standards...

The remnants of circular and rectangular villages dating to 1300 were discovered in the Amazon rainforest.

From Earth's perspective, Jupiter and Saturn will appear a moon's distance apart on Dec. 21.

Signs of disease in the bones of hominins who lived in glacial Europe half a million years ago hint they hibernated to cope with harsh winters - but the evidence is disputed