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Immunizing adults against insect-sting allergies has proved highly effective since it was first tested in the 1970s. But while many children receive shots for allergies such as hay fever, they're much less likely than adults to receive allergy shots...

A Caribbean coral that fluoresces orange appears to be the first ever found to contain a symbiotic microbe that converts elemental nitrogen into a biologically usable form, as bacteria in the roots of bean plants do. The glow of Montastraea cavernosa...

A drug combination commonly given to people with HIV, the AIDS virus, can knock out precancerous growths on a woman's cervix, a new study indicates. Previous research had suggested that HIV-positive women are particularly susceptible to such growths,...

A research team has invoked protein chemistry to propose a solution to one of the most puzzling parts of Guam's longstanding neuroscience mystery. During the 20th century, the prevalence of the neurologic disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/Parkinsonism...

The danger of lead poisoning is well known, but how best to protect infants from its effects hasn't been established. Scientists have now shown that by taking calcium supplements during pregnancy, a mother can significantly reduce the lead exposure...

It's a story of fear, loathing, and crazed college boys trapped in perhaps the most notorious social psychology study of all time. In the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo randomly assigned male college students to roles...