MADISON — As many American public school districts adopt single-sex classrooms and even entire schools, a new study finds scant evidence that they offer educational or social benefits. The study was the largest and ...

Maybe you've seen the movies or played with toy Transformers, those shape-shifting machines that ...

WHAT: NIH scientists have discovered a mechanism involved in stabilizing key HIV ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- A new study finds that a dedicated team that makes decisions based on data ...

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WHAT: A team of researchers has reported a novel method for tracking CD4+ ...

Alexandria, VA – A complex interaction between lava and water, rather than a fight between mythical troll-beasts of lore, is responsible for the occurrence of rare terrestrial ...

One of the hopes for victory against cancer hinges on naturally-occurring proteins whose job is to make their host cell die. Since their natural role is to stop ...

Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Massey Cancer Center have discovered a new signaling pathway in sterile inflammation that could impact the ...

Amsterdam, NL, February 4, 2014 – There is a growing need for Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapy (CRT) due to the huge influx of soldiers ...

While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by comet and meteor ...

Boston, MA-- Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have found that exposure to short wavelength, or ...

New insights into how the cells in our bodies divide could improve our knowledge of a condition linked to cancer, a study suggests. Errors in the cell division process – which allows us to grow ...

OAK BROOK, Ill. – Digital mammography screening with new photon-counting technique offers high diagnostic performance, according to a study published online in the journal Radiology. As ...

PHILADELPHIA — Among patients with advanced melanoma, presence of higher levels of the protein vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in blood was associated with poor response ...

Charlottesville, VA (February 4, 2014). Using susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI), researchers ...

An alternative approach to the traditional introductory laboratory course at the undergraduate level significantly increases student retention rates, according to research published ...

Ann Arbor, MI, February 4, 2014 – Researchers consider infant mortality to be ...

A new assessment tool published today in the Journal of Hospital Medicine can help hospital medicine groups across the country improve their patient care and make their operations more effective. Published ...

The pomp. The pageantry. The exciting wins and devastating losses. Unbelievable feats of athleticism and sheer determination. That's right – it's time for the winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Everyone ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – A group of Washington State University researchers have developed a chewing gum-like battery material that could dramatically ...

FINDINGS: Women who are 65 and older routinely undergo bone-density testing to screen for osteoporosis. But for those between the ages of ...

By simulating the environment when corn was first exploited by people and then domesticated, Smithsonian scientists discovered that corn's ancestor; a wild grass called teosinte, may have looked ...

February 2, 2014, Shenzhen, China - Researchers from Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fisheries Sciences, BGI-Shenzhen and other institutes have successfully decoded the first ...

BOSTON -- A new microscopy method could ...