Scientists in recent years have made great progress in characterizing the bacterial population that normally lives on human skin and contributes to health and disease. Now researchers have used state-of-the-art…

Scientists have determined how hydrothermal vents influence ocean carbon storage. Originally, the researchers thought the vents might be a source of the dissolved organic carbon. Their research showed just the…

Scientists have used national register information in more than one million children to study the association of early life contact with dogs and subsequent development of asthma. This question has…

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For four season, fans of the HBO show Girls have watched Allison Williams portray Marnie Michaels - the professional counterpart to Lena Dunham's aloof Hannah Horvath - but Williams's latest…

For four season, fans of the HBO show Girls have watched Allison Williams portray Marnie Michaels - the professional counterpart to Lena Dunham's aloof Hannah Horvath - but Williams's latest…

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Researchers have taken a new approach to understanding why so many breast cancer patients in Appalachia aren't getting the care they need, and their findings are set to change how…

When astronomers study protoplanetary disks of gas and dust that surround young stars, they sometimes spot a dark gap like the Cassini division in Saturn's rings. It has been suggested…

A new study finds similarities between how African immigrants were stigmatized during the recent Ebola crisis to how the gay community was stigmatized during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.