As noted, this loss poses a significant problem for the pharmaceutical industry as well as for rural populations who rely on ...

The opaque plumes of noxious smoke billowing out of a Georgia chemical plant are long gone. But the relentless effects of the ...

Transporting 663 U.S. prisoners from German prison camps, the Gripsholm, a Swedish ship, enters New York Harbor ready to ...

Cancer remains one of the leading global causes of mortality, with an estimated increase in cases due to lifestyle, ...

A professor at Brown University recently explained the harmful effects of coal plants across the United States, revealing the ...

Today, herbalism and wild plant foraging has become an increasingly popular alternative to modern medicine. Herbal medicine is still widely used among American-Indian, Chinese and European populations ...

For decades, drugmakers and researchers have found lifesaving medical advances in plants, animals and other organisms. But ...

Lives will be lost because of a shortage of specialist medicine used to detect diseases such as breast and bowel cancer. That ...

Researchers had given up on achieving photosynthesis in animals, Professor Sachihiro Matsunaga told Newsweek, but that didn't stop him and his colleagues.

A flowering plant might not be able to tell how many fingers you’re holding up, but it can tell whether it’s light or dark ...

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Fearing the the potential of air pollution and perhaps even toxic emissions, a group of residents around the trash-to-energy ...