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A study published today examines the evolutionary and epidemiologic history of an epidemic strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) -- called LAM4/KZN. This strain was first reported in a 2005 outbreak ...

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The U.S. Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane returned to Earth on Sunday after completing more than two years in orbit.

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Physicists have figured out what's lurking inside of white dwarfs, revealing the stellar corpses are creamy and filled with exotic quantum liquids.

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Researchers describe how to find wormholes in the folds of our galaxy.

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There was no doubt that the US Air Force's X-37B was going to break its own record for time spent in orbit, but it's now clear by how much. The mysterious Boeing-made space plane has landed at Kennedy Space Center after ...

Spending an hour in talk therapy with a trained counselor costs much more, and takes more time, than swallowing an inexpensive antidepressant pill. But for people with a new diagnosis of major depression, the costs and b...

An international team has discovered a cheap and efficient way to identify transmission hotspots for schistosomiasis. The research uses rigorous field sampling and aerial images to precisely map communities that are at g...

A study of Wisconsin Medicaid enrollees with Down syndrome has found that more than half of those ages 55 and older have filed at least three claims for dementia and nearly a third have filed at least three claims for Al...

A new study shows how a parent's use of marijuana, past or present, can influence their child's substance use and well-being.

Widespread adaptation of healthier diets would markedly reduce the environmental impact of agriculture and food production. For the first time, researchers have tied the health impacts of foods to their overall environme...

Chemists match models and experiments to see how salt modifies surface interactions in chromatography used to separate valuable drug proteins. The research could be a step toward simplifying drug manufacture.

A sweeping study looking at an extensive collection of data -- involving more than a million offenders at 30 different Canadian and US research sites -- found that while fewer people were being locked up, crime rates sho...

Between 2005 and 2015, as the opioid crisis in America came into focus, prescriptions for gabapentinoid medications -- gabapentin and pregabalin -- to adults with cancer saw a two-fold increase, a new study has found.

Researchers have used the Drosophila embryo to model human disease mutations that affect myosin motor activity. Through in vivo imaging and biophysical analysis, they demonstrated that engineering human MYH9-related dise...

Contrary to the belief that drinking can literally shrink one's brain, a new study that includes researchers suggests that a small brain might be a risk factor for heavier alcohol consumption.

As if you didn't already have enough to worry about to keep you up at night, a new study indicates that poor sleep can negatively affect your gut microbiome, which can, in turn, lead to additional health issues.

As robots and gadgets continue to pervade our everyday lives, they increasingly need to see in 3D -- but as evidenced by the notch in your iPhone, depth-sensing cameras are still pretty bulky. A new approach inspired by ...