The smoke rising from a cookstove fills the air with the tantalizing aroma of dinner – and a cloud of [...]
Too often, communication barriers exist between those who can hear and those who cannot. Sign language has helped bridge such [...]
Medicare’s new method for buying medical supplies and equipment—everything from wheelchairs and hospital beds to insulin shots and oxygen tanks—is [...]
The U.S. had the second-lowest proportion of students who used tobacco and alcohol compared to their counterparts in 36 European [...]
The glacier lily as it’s called, is a tall, willowy plant that graces mountain meadows throughout western North America. It [...]
Hiding your true social identity — race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability — at work [...]
The nation’s food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study by [...]
Scientists have discovered a “switch” in the Hepatitis C virus which could be used as a target for new kinds [...]
More than 2 billion years ago, a much fainter sun should have left the Earth as an orbiting ice ball, [...]
Enormous volcanic eruptions with potential to end civilizations may have surprisingly short fuses, researchers have discovered. These eruptions are known [...]
Language is so much more than a string of words. To understand what someone means, you need context. Consider the [...]
The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against [...]
Pattern formation in physical, biological, and sociological systems has been studied for many years. Despite the fact that these subject [...]
On May 17, 2012 an M-class flare exploded from the sun. The eruption also shot out a burst of solar [...]
An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray [...]
A laboratory test used to detect disease and perform biological research could be made more than 3 million times more [...]
New research recently announced at the Canadian Nutrition Society annual meeting in Vancouver, B.C., suggests eating raisins as an after-school [...]
Individual homes and entire neighborhoods could be powered with a new, small-scale solid oxide fuel cell system that achieves up [...]
Care for patients with fecal incontinence costs $4,110 per person for both medical and non-medical costs like loss of productivity, [...]
Neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have reached an important milestone, publicly releasing the first installment out of 500 [...]
Quantum computers are still years away, but a trio of theorists has already figured out at least one talent they [...]
NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, Sun, [...]
Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip [...]
A new international study, published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, shows that seagrasses are a vital part of [...]
East Timor is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and Australia has a moral and historical obligation to [...]
Advertisers spend enormous amounts of time and money attempting to tailor their advertising campaigns to the needs of different demographic [...]
Indiana University School of Medicine scientists have successfully transplanted primary kidney cells intravenously to treat renal failure in rats, pointing [...]
University of Florida researchers have described a new extinct giant turtle species from the same Colombian mine where they discovered [...]
Radiation from the nuclear reactor disaster in Japan has been found in bluefin tuna in waters off San Diego by [...]
Mayo Clinic researchers, in collaboration with other research institutions and youth mental health experts, are publishing new guidelines for primary [...]
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