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The "Bloody Mary" illusion evokes strange sights in the mirror. Douglas Heaven braves an apparition that could help people with schizophrenia (full text available to subscribers)     

GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth, 4G, GPS: a smartphone already has to handle many wireless standards. And this number will only increase further. There are still no good filters to keep all those future standards separate. Research...

Knowing who your doctor is -- and a couple of facts about that person -- may go a long way toward improving patient satisfaction.

Malaria is one of the major infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitos, with enormous impact on quality of life. According to World Health Organization, as of 2010 there were over 219 million reported cases of malaria ...

A leading cause of heart disease remains overlooked in North America's most impoverished communities, researchers assert. Chagas disease has rendered a heavy health and economic toll, yet insufficient political and medic...

Researchers have discovered that one gene in a common fungus acts as a master regulator, and deleting it has opened access to a wealth of new compounds that have never before been studied -- with the potential to identif...

The factors involved in VL transmission are poorly understood, especially in urban and densely populated counties. Researchers in Brazil have conducted studies on urbanization and expansion of VL in Belo Horizonte, capit...

Bacterial infections in dialysis patients leave an "immune fingerprint" that can be used to improve diagnosis and to guide treatment. Routine monitoring of these complex immune fingerprints could benefit patients with di...

Researchers have shown that mastectomy is more used and radiation is less used in male compared to female breast cancer patients.

Image of German-designed e-bike via Wikimedia There's a new class of electric bicycles prompting oodles of attention, collecting millions of dollars in funding and providing little more than dust-collecting, spider web-e...

For Halloween, we have compiled the United State's scariest weather by state, including highlights of some of the most extreme weather events in history.

Hurricane Sandy's powerful storm tide flooded 70 percent of New Jersey's historic submerged marshes. Now, geologists are plumbing for past storm records.

A new documentary that investigates the impact of U.S. drone strikes premiered this week in New York City.

Snoring during pregnancy may be more than a nuisance -- mothers who snored three or more nights a week had a higher risk of poor delivery outcomes.

Humpback whales feed on fish just off the seafloor, making them vulnerable to entanglement in seafloor fishing gear.

Bartendro Camper English Revelers sipped into the future last weekend at BarBot 2013.75. The event, part of Bay Area Science Week, gathered the greatest in cocktail robotics in a basement event space in downtown San Fran...

Using lasers, scientists can now surgically blast holes thinner than a human hair in the heads of fruit flies, allowing them to gaze at how the rodents' brains worked while still alive.

They look like snazzy sunglasses, but these computerised specs don't block the sun - they make the world a brighter place for people with partial vision     

Almost a kilometre down, the biggest ocean on Earth has warmed 15 times faster in the last 60 years than at any time since the last ice age     

As growing numbers of America's baby boomers reach retirement, neuroscientists are expanding their efforts to understand and treat one of the leading health issues affecting this population: age-related neurological dete...

Despite the best intentions of those working in public health, some policies and practices inadvertently further disadvantage marginalized populations, according to a commentary by a researcher.

An experimental vaccine to protect against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a leading cause of illness and hospitalization among very young children, elicited high levels of RSV-specific antibodies when tested in anima...