When a ship grounds on coral reef, the accident can severely damage the reef and scatter countless small coral fragments onto the seafloor.

When the body is fending off an infection, there are changes in temperature, pH balance, and metabolism.

Cooking organic aerosol (COA) is one of the most important primary sources of pollution in urban environments.

Why is it that you can remember the name of your childhood best friend that you haven't seen in years yet easily forget the name of a person you just met a moment ago? 

Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide, but research about the health effects of this cooking technique has been largely inconclusive and focused on healthy people. 

Heavily polluted areas have a higher rate of angioplasty procedures to treat blocked arteries than areas with clean air, according to research to be presented at ESC Congress 2019 together with the World Congress of Cardiology.

There are only two northern white rhinos left worldwide, both of them female.

An epidemic of chronic kidney disease that has killed tens of thousands of agricultural workers worldwide, is just one of many ailments poised to strike as a result of climate change, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

An enzyme induced by stress to help reduce production of damaging free radicals is also used by liver cancer to regulate two major cell proliferation pathways that enable the cancer to thrive, scientists report.

Parents, siblings and children of people with celiac disease are at high risk of also having the disease, according to a Mayo Clinic study.