A new, free app will allow smartphone users to measure their cellphone use. Computer scientists and psychologists from the University of ...

A team of scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the University of California at Davis describe ten new species of Temnothorax ants, doubling the number of species of this ...

This news release is available in German. All of us backboned animals – at least the ones who also have jaws – have four fins or limbs, one pair in front ...

BOSTON (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to ...

Do scientific papers written by well-known scholars ...

Alcohol use is more likely ...

Poor-quality sleep marked by frequent awakenings can speed cancer growth, increase tumor aggressiveness and dampen the immune system's ability to control ...

"You can't compare apples and oranges. For the most part, children whose parents immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s have a working-class background, while the children of the majority population ...

A biomarker widely used to diagnose brain injury has shown early promise ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique ...

"I didn't see it, because I wasn't expecting it there," might be the more accurate ...

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The response of a patient with metastatic brain tumors to treatment with stereotactic radiosurgery in the first six-to-twelve weeks can indicate whether follow-up treatments ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The sponges of the future will do more than clean house. Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny ...

Rice University scientists have created a way to interpret interactions among pairs of task-oriented proteins that relay signals. The goal is to learn how the proteins ...

Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to Penn State and University of Florida researchers. The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone ...

New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Building on previous evidence showing that religious belief involves cognitive activity that can be mapped to specific brain regions, a new study has ...

WHAT: Scientists supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the ...

Researchers in India have developed a relatively low-temperature process to convert certain kinds of plastic waste into liquid fuel as a way to re-use discarded plastic bags and other products. They ...

Researchers find changes to protein SirT1 can prevent excess metabolic stress associated with obesity, diabetes and aging. Studies ...

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CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Every time you open your eyes, visual information flows into your brain, which interprets what you're seeing. Now, for the first time, MIT neuroscientists have noninvasively mapped this flow of information ...

An estimated 25.8 million Americans have diabetes. Another 79 million are thought to have "prediabetes," meaning they are at ...

A new study led by Professor Bert De Smedt (Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven) ...

New Rochelle, NY, January 27, 2014—Drugs comprised of single strands of DNA, called aptamers, can bind to targets inside tumor cells causing cell death. But these DNA ...