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(Stanford University) Stanford University scientists have created a silicon-based water splitter that is both low-cost and corrosion-free. The novel device -- a silicon semiconductor coated in an ultrathin layer of nicke...

Six tons of carvings, jewelry, trinkets and tusks were being reduced to powder today (Nov. 14) as the United States, for the first time, destroyed its ivory stockpile.

On Nov. 14, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) destroyed its stockpile of seized ivory at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City, Colo., just outside of Denver.

A new study shows that caffeine consumption even six hours before bedtime can have significant, disruptive effects on sleep.

Nursing leaders from 38 children's hospitals demonstrated that nursing education and experience significantly impact outcomes for patients who underwent cardiac surgery. The researchers recommend that there be no more th...

Most popular smartphone apps do not include evidence-based practices known to help smokers quit, finds a new study.

The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano became the first in the nation to treat a patient with the catheter-based SAPIEN 3 heart valve using the transapical approach (through the ribs). This new phase of a clinical trial, also k...

A new study finds that many local health departments aren't able to meet goals to increase health care access.

With all this information, you might expect new breakthroughs in cancer treatment to come in thick and fast. But the more of these goldmines of raw material we have, the harder it actually becomes to make sense of it.

A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers.

An international team of scientists has shown for the first time that atoms can work collectively rather than independently of each other to share light.

To combat the rising tide of complaints about the smell of pot, officials are turning to a high-tech weapon: the Nasal Ranger, a device that measures the intensity of odors like marijuana.

Once thought unpredictable, the erratic march of wildfires across a landscape can now be forecast like the weather, researchers say.

Medical researchers have discovered the structure of a potential drug target for a rare genetic disease, paving the way for an alternative treatment for the condition.

Research with baboons may help explain why some people who take bone-strengthening drugs like bisphosphonates are at risk for atypical fractures in the long bones in their legs.

In a lab devoted to increasing healthy lifespans, the transplant anti-rejection drug rapamycin showed unexpected health benefits and increased survival in a mouse model of a fatal mitochondrial defect. Children with the ...

Biologists have uncovered a complicated chain of molecular events that leads from insulin to protein degradation in muscles and significantly diminished life span in fruit flies. The new study, which may have broad impli...

Now, in what is a fascinating tale of serendipity, researchers have found that these events don't entirely destroy all traces of life at the site of impact.

Dogs were first domesticated by European hunter-gatherers, according to a new genetic analysis of prehistoric dog remains. The study is a step forward in understanding how the only large domesticated carnivore came to be...

A new system has kept a quantum bit of information in an entangled state for 39 minutes at room temperature, more than 10 times longer than the previous record.

Some 888,000 square miles (2.3 million square kilometers) of forest have vanished since 2000, according to a new global map of deforestation that shows the effects of clear-cutting in more detail than ever before.

A normally fragile quantum state has been shown to survive at room temperature for a world record 39 minutes, overcoming a key barrier towards building ultrafast quantum computers.