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If you have a new sensor or sensor technology that you want to establish in the marketplace, getting some advice from industry experts could prevent you from making mistakes that others have made. The Micro, Nano and Eme...

Roughly 85 percent of recently installed HVAC systems in K-12 classrooms investigated in California did not provide adequate ventilation, according to a new study.

Scientists have found that a chemical mark on histones - a key protein involved in the function of our DNA - occurs naturally under nutrient-limited conditions as cells change the way they make energy, and serves to repr...

A new study details the first comprehensive look across the scientific literature at the role of mind-body therapies in addressing opioid-treated pain. The researchers found that certain mind-body therapies can reduce pa...

(Credit: Alex Brylov/Shutterstock) Ageing is inevitable and is influenced by many things - but keeping active can slow aging and increase life expectancy. Evidence shows that ageing alone is not a cause of major problems...

A plane has to be going pretty fast for a mere raindrop to crack its windshield, but it can happen. While scientists knew surface waves were behind the phenomenon, the details have long remained fuzzy. But thanks to new ...

A new study reveals an unprecedented close-up view of cilia linked to blindness.

A new risk assessment model for the transmission of Ebola accurately predicted its spread into the Republic of Uganda, according to the researchers who developed it.

Chemical analysis of blood samples, combined with an artificial intelligence program, could speed up the diagnosis of brain tumors.

Increased levels of physical activity can significantly reduce the odds of depression, even among people who are genetically predisposed to the condition.

Researchers have developed a new, 'intelligent' metamaterial -- which costs less than ten dollars to build -- that could revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), making the entire MRI process faster, safer, and mo...

A new computational method can measure the forces cells exert on each other by analyzing time-lapse videos of cell colonies. It could enable researchers to gain fundamental insights into what role intercellular forces pl...

New research offers specific metrics that might qualify foods as hyper-palatable -- and finds most foods consumed in the United States meet these criteria.

Researchers describe how bad bacteria gain a foothold over good bacteria in IBD and how something as simple as a diet change might reverse it.

In almost all cases of colon cancer, a specific gene is mutated -- this offers opportunities to develop broadly effective therapeutic approaches. Research have taken this a step further.

Researchers have reported the detection of a picosecond electron motion in a silicon transistor. This study has presented a new protocol for measuring ultrafast electronic dynamics in an effective time-resolved fashion o...

Traditional quality improvement programs are yielding diminishing returns. As a result, many manufacturing environments are turning to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) to deliver the insights necessary to initiat...

A year before the 2020 presidential election, Americans report various issues in the news as significant sources of stress, including health care, mass shootings and the upcoming election.

Women with a genetic predisposition for breast cancer were 2.5 times more likely to develop a malignancy than women with the same genetic risk who underwent bariatric or weight-loss surgery, according to a new study.

Cardiac patients who feel lonely are at heightened risk of dying within a year of being discharged from hospital, reveals new research.

Any amount of running is linked to a significantly lower risk of death from any cause, finds a pooled analysis of the available evidence.