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Women in group prenatal care had improved birth outcomes, a finding that could inform future policy decisions.

Barenaked Ladies: It's All Been Done Every physics student has heard the story about how some prominent thinkers at the end of the 19th century were convinced that we had discovered all there was to know about physics. O...

Researchers have identified a cellular switch that potentially can be turned off and on to slow down, and eventually inhibit the growth of the most commonly diagnosed and aggressive malignant brain tumor.

Half of those in nursing homes fear falling, which can turn into a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Researchers have determined that fingerstick cardiac troponin I assay testing using the point-of-care i-STAT device is not accurate enough to determine the exact troponin level without the application of a corrective ter...

The Midwest is experiencing very dangerous levels of mold in the air which will result in headaches, itchy throats and runny noses for those with sensitive respiratory systems. The mold count today is 125,000, a high for...

Mixed-income neighborhoods help improve the safety and wellbeing of low-income residents, but cannot relieve deeply entrenched poverty or provide upward mobility without additional social services and supports.

The Farm Bill currently under debate on Capitol Hill contains many facets, but two may be the most important initiatives affecting the health of the American people: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Suppleme...

The country has been hit on both coasts by two tropical storms landing within 24 hours of one another. The lethal combination has already claimed 97 lives     

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From heron yoga to a torch-bearing ant, we reveal our favourite entries from this year's Animal Photography Prize     

The spring-mounted laser scanner does its work while sproinging around comically. The Zebedee, created by Australia's national space agency, is a 3-D scanner, but it's not quite like any 3-D scanner we've ever seen befor...

Iconic works of art get exhibited worldwide. But as those paintings age, they can become too fragile to withstand travel around the globe. The paint can be visually examined to gauge its integrity.... --

Forget batteries, power your cooking timer and digital scales by harnessing the energy that escapes through your microwave door     

From balloons to Mars probes, astronomers have rallied the best instruments in the solar system to observe this four-billion-year-old chunk of rock     

They may lack the glamour of rainforests, but in the fight against global warming peat bogs could be our best ally... or our complete undoing (full text available to subscribers)     

The enormous, bottom-dwelling coelacanths have sprung another surprise: unlike other fish species, each female's clutch of young has the same father     

Groove to your own personal rhythm with music made from your body's biodata     

Seattle's urban waterfront -- a noisy highway viaduct and failing seawall -- is being transformed to create a welcoming environment for salmon and people.

It might be called a shock finding. Coating plastic or rubber materials with antioxidants such as vitamin E stops static charge from building up on the polymer’s surface, chemists report today.... --

Most tech players are now engaged in a race to distance themselves from the NSA by safeguarding user data. Such efforts, if they reach fruition, will help users, who have ever-expanding parts of their lives in digital fo...