Winston-Salem, N.C. – Jan. 27, 2014 – More than 25 million people in the United States have asthma, a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways ...

An article entitled "Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region"was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, ...

Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use ...

Contract killing is one of the least studied, but most intriguing areas of organized crime; and new research into British hitmen has found that in some cases victims were murdered for as little as £200. The ...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified how a mutated protein can lead to holes in a protein sitting in a cell's membrane. Such holes cause high blood pressure, and the discovery can now lead ...

This news release is available in German. Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism ...

New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty ...

This news release is available in Spanish. This innovation enables 3D images of living organisms to be obtained with greater speed and precision. In broad terms, helical optical projection tomography consists in ...

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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 ...