The cause of the deadly landslide and flood along the Nepal–Tibet border isn't yet certain, but experts say the dangers ...

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A protein that sticks cells and tissues together has been found to have a surprising second job: helping cells that are ...

A team of Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has developed a computer model that will help scientists more efficiently ...

When the temperature heats up, so do emergency rooms, according to a massive study of Chicago hospital and urgent care ...

A team of researchers from the University of Bonn, Heidelberg University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico has ...

Sea turtles are famous for being prodigious wanderers. Guided by Earth's magnetic field, ocean currents and the sun, they ...

Imagine a plume of brown sediment washed off the land into Queensland rivers and carried out to sea. Here, it can settle on ...

From high in the hills around Las Vegas, tourist Choune Osterero gazes down at the line of chalky mineral deposits left on the rocks around Lake Mead as the level of America's largest reservoir has ...

Acting as armor, a scaffold and a communication platform in one, our cells' plasma membrane lies at the heart of many crucial cellular processes. Traditionally, it has been thought to function through ...

Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E. coli cells, to produce ...

The majority of plant seeds have the special ability to almost completely dry out and yet remain viable. While most living ...