Next time you need to choose between vegetable oil and margarine in that favorite recipe, think about your health and reach for the oil to get vitamin E.

Scientists have identified a link between different malaria parasites that cause severe disease and could help develop vaccines or drugs for the disease.

The boundary between electronics and biology is blurring with the first detection of ferroelectric properties in an amino acid called glycine.

Researchers discover promising anti-diabetic substance in the amorfrutin class of natural substances (liquorice root) because they reduce blood sugar.

The first Las Cumbres telescope in a planned suite of telescopes of the Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network achieved first light recently at McDonald Observatory.

Coming to an area near you: snakes, with venomous snakebites and plenty of them. With unusually warm temperatures experts say this could be a bumper crop year for snakes.

Like snow sliding off a roof on a sunny day, the Greenland Ice Sheet may be sliding faster into the ocean due to massive releases of meltwater from surface lakes, according to a new study from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the University of Colorado Boulder (CU). Such lake drainages may affect sea-level rise, with implications for coastal communities.

Marine researchers have linked the collapse of Larval oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon to an increase in ocean acidification.

Scientists used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to discover planets orbiting the star Fomalhaut are smaller than originally thought.

Global warming and climate change may initially make the grass greener, but not for long, according to new research results.