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Researchers have found brain activity beyond a flat line EEG, which they have called Nu-complexes (from the Greek letter n). According to existing scientific data, researchers and doctors had established that beyond the ...

What can antique telescopes reveal about finding exoplanets? Originally published: Sep 19 2013 - 11:00am, Inside Science News Service By: Amanda Alvarez, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- A team of French researchers has shed l...

Like normal cells, cancer cells require amino acids for growth, maintenance, and cell signaling, and L-type amino acid transporters (LATs) are the delivery vehicles that supply them. Metastatic, castration-resistant pros...

The long-serving Nintendo president died today at 85. Hiroshi Yamauchi was the president of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, and might be the person most responsible for bringing gaming into mainstream culture. He shepherded ...

Mundane business know-how combats gut-wrenching human tragedy. Making sure that there's enough shelter available for populations displaced by war is a challenge of cost and scale. Fortunately, challenges of cost and scal...

Ikea Flatpack Refugee House Ikea Foundation and Graphic News Making sure that there's enough shelter available for populations displaced by war is a challenge of cost and scale. Fortunately, challenges of cost and scale ...

Adding mood management strategies to smoking cessation programs helped people with depression or a history of depression quit smoking for longer periods than a standard program.

New study provides evidence for the effects of carbon monoxide in pregnancy, and the role it might have in attenuating the signs of preeclampsia.

In just a few months, Summit Europe -- the first European conference hosted by Singularity University -- will take place in Budapest, Hungary on November 15-16, 2013. This special two-day program will play host to a thea...

If the development of our nervous system is disturbed, we risk developing serious neurological diseases, impairing our sensory systems, movement control or cognitive functions. This is true for all organisms with a well-...

The bodies of mammals, including humans, respond to injury by releasing endogenous opioids -- compounds that mitigate acute pain. A team of researchers has uncovered groundbreaking new information about how the body resp...

Today, computerized smart systems can deliver drugs intravenously in exact volumes to hospital patients. However, these systems cannot recognize which medications are in the tubing, nor can they determine the concentrati...

Scientists have shown how a protein fragment known as beta-amyloid, strongly implicated in Alzheimer's disease, begins destroying synapses before it clumps into plaques that lead to nerve cell death.

Overweight patients with type 2 diabetes continue to experience the benefits of bariatric surgery up to nine years after the procedure, according to new research.

Working with cells in test tubes and in mice, researchers have discovered that a chemical commonly used as a dog food preservative may prevent the kind of painful nerve damage found in the hands and feet of four out of f...

Educators describe how a three-year medical degree, a radical rethinking of medical education, can increase the number of productive years clinicians and physician scientists spend in the workforce, as well as reduce stu...

Pinning down an effective way to combat the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus, the viral precursor to AIDS, has long been challenge task for scientists and physicians, because the virus is an elusive one that mu...

Concerns have been raised over an IVF technique that stops a mother passing on faulty mitochondrial DNA to her child - but others say the analysis is flawed     

The Mars rover's first deep breaths are methane-free, contradicting previous results that hinted at life     

Elon Musk and his companies have been a PR treasure trove of late. SpaceX continues to make strides in reusable rocket tech with its Grasshopper rocket. Musk showed off an Iron Man 3D design interface his engineers are b...

All the latest on newscientist.com: flatlining brain, prize-winning astronomy photos, what thinking is, baby pictures of the universe and more...     

The ability to customize how words appear on the page is a boon to dyslexic readers. A new study performed by the Smithsonian Institute found that ebook readers like the Amazon Kindle can actually help those with dyslexi...