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Sometimes, in the decades after he came home from World War II, it seemed as if the movie camera was surgically attached to Christoffel Teeuwissen's hand.

The nine-spotted ladybug was considered so common, charismatic and crop-friendly that it was adopted as New York’s official state insect in 1989.

Researchers report the discovery of the first new living species of giant clam in two decades.

Over the course of seven decades the urologist John Lattimer amassed more than 3,000 objects that ranged in age from a few years to tens of millions of years.

Children with lower IQs are more likely decades later to develop vascular dementia than children with high IQs, according to new research in Neurology.

Researchers have developed a technique that controls the number of electrons on the surface of high-temperature superconductors, a procedure considered impossible for the past two decades.

The rise of gadgets like the iPhone, Blackberry and Xbox threatens to unravel the decades of innovation that helped to build the Internet, a leading academic has warned in a new book.

The recent release of data by the National Oncologic PET Registry showing that positron emission tomography produced scans revealing disease at a molecular level, which then caused physicians to change treatment plans for more than one-third of participating patients, has corroborated decades of nuclear medicine research.

The European anchovy supports an important fishing industry, and it is also fundamental in marine growth chains.

European anchovy catches have dropped alarmingly over the last few decades, going from 83,615 tons in 1965 to 4,456 tons in 1982 and only 950 tons in 2005.

A new tool determines the age of anchovies with greater accuracy on a monthly or even weekly basis, will enable studies of the earliest phases of life to be undertaken.

About 35 percent of the world's population is at risk of contracting deadly malaria, but many people are at a lower risk than previously thought, raising hope that the disease could be seriously reduced or eliminated in parts of the world.