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To be human is to be curious. Our constant interrogation of the world around us has led to pretty much every bit of knowledge we hold as a species. This is what scientists do, through carefully controlled experiments and...

Product Announcement PEM S-RT self-clinching locknuts install into aluminum or steel sheets as thin as .030"/0.8mm and become permanent parts of an assembly ... Contributed Author: PennEngineering

Videos Researchers from Purdue University have developed a technology that interprets fMRI scans ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Neurology

News gK223 is unique among pseudokinases because it acts as a molecular scaffold ... Contributed Author: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

News These "artificial beta cells" (ABCs) mimic the functions of the body's natural glucose-controllers ... Contributed Author: University of North Carolina Health Care Topics: Diabetes

News The device is a handheld laser, VivoSight, used to see 1mm underneath the skin. It creates a 3D color image of the blood vessels. It uses Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: On...

For the first time in its history, the FDA attempts to revoke a previously authorized health claim. Here's why the federal health agency may no longer allow companies to claim soy protein may reduce heart disease risk.

Suicidal people were found to exhibit distinct brain activity patterns. Brain scans hold potential in preventing suicide, which claimed more than 41,000 lives in the United States in 2013.

Can you get infected with viruses when you try on lipstick and makeup samples? A woman sues Sephora claiming she contracted herpes from a lipstick sample at one of their stores.

(FECYT - Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology) Almost 10 percent of the world population suffers dyslexia. Establishing an early diagnosis would allow the development of training programs to palliate this disord...

(Duke University) When it comes to brainpower, humans aren't as exceptional as we like to think. For years, scientists assumed that humans devote a larger share of calories to their brains than other animals. Although th...

(American College of Physicians) In a letter sent today to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma, the American College of Physicians (ACP), expressed support and appreciation for ...

(Field Museum) Lemurs eat way less fruit than most other primates, and scientists have a new hypothesis as to why: the fruit on Madagascar, where the lemurs live, is unusually low in protein. Scientists posit that the ev...

(Howard Hughes Medical Institute) A microscope lens implanted deep inside a mouse's brain shows different patterns of neural activity when the mouse interacts with males, females, or other stimuli. Now, researchers have ...

(Loyola University Health System) Mini-strokes known as transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), can be an 'ominous prelude' to catastrophic strokes.

(Ohio State University) Upwardly mobile blacks and Hispanics are more likely to experience racial discrimination than their socioeconomically stable peers, new research has found. And that might help explain racial dispa...

(National University of Singapore) Researchers from the National University of Singapore have recently discovered a mechanism that could explain how the brain retains working memory when faced with distractions. These fi...

(Portland State University) Development of a new mobile app that helps prevent HIV among transgender women and keeps them connected with supportive peers anytime, anywhere is the focus of a grant recently awarded by the ...

(Brigham and Women's Hospital) Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are leveraging the power of artificial intelligence to develop a new technique to detect ovarian cancer earl...

(The Francis Crick Institute) A new statistical model has enabled researchers to pinpoint 27 novel genes thought to prevent cancer from forming, in an analysis of over 2,000 tumors across 12 human cancer types. The findi...

(North Carolina State University) Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) at levels below those currently considered safe for humans affects gene expression related to sexual differentiation and neurodevelopment in the de...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The worldwide pattern of religious affiliation at the time of death is expected to change over the next 50 years, with distinct regional trends. This is the first s...