Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap ...

For about a year, an algal bloom in South Australian waters has had devastating effects on marine life. At my local beach, walks were a sad parade of dead sea life. But what of the health effects of ...

It's well known that alcohol consumption is an age-old method for coping with stress. But recent research led by the ...

Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or ...

Neuroscientists solve the "cocktail party problem," proving that neural amplification of vocal features like pitch and ...

The Oakland County Health & Human Services Department received the funding through separate state grants, each worth $500,000.

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Lead poisons and kills dozens of wildlife species and is also an acute threat to hunting families and others eating wild game shot with the toxic, irreducible metal ...

At Empa, an interdisciplinary research institute for materials science and technology within the ETH Domain, researchers are ...

Learn how an unlikely discovery in a venomous lizard led to one of today’s most influential drugs and why future breakthroughs still depend on the freedom to explore.