A new study showed that neighborhood factors such as housing quality, violence, education, access to healthy food and poverty may play a role in maternal and fetal health related to gestational ...

Researchers examined individual trees and their neighbors to quantify diversity for their new study. This photo shows inside an experimental site in Putuo, China. Individual trees of one species ...

High-resolution aerial imagery captured in January 1983 by the U.S. Geological Survey compared to modern high-resolution satellite imagery collected 36 years later.  Since then, the landscape has ...

Study co-authors Dave Drapeau (left) and Bruce Bowler (right) prepare to launch an probe on a rare sunny day to collect optical data down to the top of the euphotic zone.

Researchers used data from 15 tree diversity experimental sites—like this one in Putuo, China—to find that richer diversity promotes more tree growth in wetter climates. This photograph shows a dense ...

Illustration shows a visual timeline shown to participants, representing a potential partner’s sexual history. Each timeline showed the same number of past partners (12), but with different patterns – ...

Researchers, including study lead author Barney Balch, prepare to launch an probe on a rare sunny day to collect optical data down to the top of the euphotic zone.

In the study, the researchers examined the activity of ADSL by measuring the concentration of protein substrates SAICAr and S-Ado (in red), which increase when ADSL activity decreases. Below, the ...

McGill University researchers have developed and are licensing a digital tool to help safely reduce patients’ use of medications that may be unnecessary or even harmful to them. When clinicians review ...

A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a low-cost, non-invasive method to estimate total leaf area in dwarf tomato plants using 3D reconstruction from standard video footage. The ...

Over the past decade, the number of picture books that parents can read to young children about personal boundaries and saying “no” to inappropriate touching has ballooned, as attention to preventing ...

When given nutritionally matched diets, participants lost twice as much weight eating minimally processed foods compared to ultra-processed foods, suggesting that cutting down on processing could help ...