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Autophagy, a key cellular auto-cleaning mechanism, mediates the formation of amyloid beta plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease. It might be a potential drug target for the treatment of the disease, conclu...

One Bite To Change Songs Split via Kickstarter Say goodbye to getting wrapped up in miles of cord connecting your MP3 player to your headphones as you listen to music. These little earphones, named Split, make up a compl...

Virgin Shuttle Virgin Galactic Now that Bill Nye has been unfairly removed from the travesty of a television program Dancing With the Stars, there is a strange, science-y, reality TV show-shaped hole in my heart. But per...

Several newly identified markers could provide valuable insight to predict the risk of rupture abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). Imaging with PET/CT has shown that dense white blood cells in the outermost connective tiss...

Rising ocean surface temperatures caused by climate change could make fish accumulate more mercury, increasing the health risk to people who eat seafood, researchers report.

BepiColombo stack ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h Europe and Japan are on a mission to Mercury. The BepiColombo mission is expected to launch in 2015, and arrive in Mercury by 2022. Carried in a vessel creatively dubbed the "compos...

There are some giant stars out there. Our sun is more than 300,000 times more massive than Earth. That's pretty big, but there are stars much larger. One particularly big one, imaginatively named WR 102ka, is located nea...

Neuroeconomists have identified a specific brain region that controls compliance with social norms. They discovered that norm compliance is independent of knowledge about the norm and can be increased by means of brain s...

A team of pediatric neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists has developed a way to minimize dangerous radiation exposure in children with a condition that requires repeat CT scans of the brain. The experts say they reduced e...

Facebook and Twitter could provide vital clues to control infectious diseases by using mathematical models to understand how we respond socially to biological contagions. Authors reviewed social factors in epidemiology, ...

Failure to use science of science communication contributed to public controversy over HPV vaccine and could provoke similar conflict over other childhood vaccines.

Researchers have published a paper demonstrating that reading literary fiction enhances a set of skills and thought processes fundamental to complex social relationships -- and functional societies. These researchers per...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- a disease in which cardiac muscle thickens, weakening the heart -- can be prevented from developing for several months by reducing production of a mutant protein. This study has been perfor...

Researchers in Japan and China tested a novel urease fabrication process for coating titanium implants with bioactive CaP/gelatin composites. The research suggests that titanium implants coated with CaP and gelatin have ...

The teeth of the chiton mollusc are its answer to Wolverine's adamantium skeleton – they are made out of magnetite, the hardest material made by any organism     

The government shutdown was ironic from the moment it began -- It happened over the health care law, which started registration the moment the government shut down on Oct.1. The odd effects of the shutdown haven't ceased...

Dancers whirl and spin just metres away from where the Higgs was found. They're part of a contemporary dance work with a strong attraction, says Andew Purcell     

A team of researchers reports a new approach for turning induced pluripotent stem cells into hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells for in vivo disease modeling.

The more depressed someone feels, the harder it is for them to distinguish similar experiences they've had -- such as where they parked their car today.

The mix of bacteria in the vagina changes as women go through menopause. And a certain mix is typical after menopause in women who have vulvovaginal atrophy, a common cause of vaginal dryness and sexual pain. They suspec...

A tag team of two bacteria, one of them genetically modified, has a good chance to reduce or even eliminate the deadly disease African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, researchers conclude in a recent mathematical ...

An old home remedy called ipecac syrup, once stocked in medicine cabinets in case of accidental poisoning, is showing promise as a new chemotherapy drug for bladder cancer.