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A team led by a Texas A&M University anthropologist has discovered a group of primates not seen alive in 85 years.

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, led by Ajit Varki, M.D., have shown a new mechanism for how human consumption of red meat and milk products could contribute to the increased risk of cancerous tumors.

Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that a walk of just fifteen minutes can reduce chocolate cravings.

Like something from a horror movie, the swarm of bacteria ripples purposefully toward their prey, devours it and moves on.

It has all the hallmarks of a Cretaceous melodrama. A dinosaur sits on her nest of a dozen eggs on a sandy river beach. Water levels rise, and the mother is faced with a dilemma: Stay or abandon her unhatched offspring to the flood and scramble to safety?

In future, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA for short) – better known as acrylic glass – could be made from natural raw materials such as sugars, alcohols or fatty acids.

New 3-D animations of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake scenario are now available to the public.*

Researchers have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function.

It could become a reality thanks to a new study by Rice University bioengineers.

About 10 million people in the United States alone—from troops returning from war to students with music blasting through headphones—are suffering from impairing noise-induced hearing loss.