Month: August 2008

Ecologist are studying how woody vines, or lianas, are affecting tropical forests and atmospheric carbon…

Researchers have pinpointed a gene mutation that accounts for a previously unidentified form of hearing…

Climate models have long predicted that global warming will increase the intensity of “extreme” precipitation…

The links between HIV transmission and the degree to which people are able to adopt…

Scientists have unraveled a potential mechanism for how top-level rowers develop enlarged strengthened hearts as…

A researcher suggests that the struggles of adolescence can be particularly painful for children who…

To avoid producing vaccines that treat the wrong strains during flu season, the FDA should…

In a retrospective study of 174 tuberculosis patients, patients with extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis were almost eight…

A shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation threatens the world’s tropical forests but offers new…