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Last month in a Ted Talk, Shiv Gaglani showed that a standard physical exam can now be done using only smartphone apps and attachments. From blood pressure cuff to stethoscope and otoscope -- the thing the doctor uses to...

A new initiative to understand the human brain, announced by President Barack Obama earlier this year, has left people wondering exactly what its goals will be. The project's leaders provided some answers and a healthy d...

All over the world, we're finding art tens of thousands of years older than it should be. What awoke our creative minds so early, asks Alison George (full text available to subscribers)     

A team of researchers has uncovered critical information that could help scientists understand how protein polymers interact with other self-assembling biopolymers. The research helps explain naturally occurring nano-mat...

In a new study, people who ate about one ounce of nuts each day were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period.

Ununtrium -- Element 113: Properties, sources and uses.

Electronic health records collect non-clinical information that can be used to measure a medical practice's patient-centeredness, finds a new study.

A national group of leading scientists says fewer people are dying of stroke, but the mechanisms remain unknown.

An engineering professor has developed a computational model that can more accurately predict when an epileptic seizure will occur next based on the patient's personalized medical information.

While this might read like a scenario from a George Orwell novel, it is actually a reasonable step into the not-so-distant future of the next generation of robots.

In our universe there are particle accelerators 40 million times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Scientists don't know what these cosmic accelerators are or where they are located, but new res...

For all the promise of graphene as a material for next-generation electronics and quantum computing, scientists still don't know enough about this high-performance conductor to effectively control an electric current.

Despite genius moments, dogs can't grasp some concepts.

Researchers have studied the role of a peculiar class of small non-coding RNAs that are mainly expressed in the human male germline.

Obesity may alter the way we taste at the most fundamental level: by changing how our tongues react to different foods. Biologists report that being severely overweight impaired the ability of mice to detect sweets.

An intact population of microorganisms that derive food and benefit from other organisms living in the intestine is required for optimal response to cancer therapy, according to a mouse study.

National Geographic recognized the achievements of 13 individuals in their list of 2014 Adventurers of the Year.

Scientists have made cheeses from bacteria cultured from belly lint, toes, and noses. The cheeses are apparently infused with the bacterial aroma of their original owners.

Imagine that you begin your day at an auction, purchasing a myriad of equipment for your laboratory. You then spend the afternoon recording data on the radioactive half-life of uranium, and you end the evening by looking...

Scientists have found a huge but diffuse ring of dust near the orbit of Venus, marking the second time such a structure has been discovered in our solar system. The dust ring stretches about 137 million miles from end to...

So much for space cowboys. Multi-millionaire Dennis Tito says his Inspiration Mars mission, originally a much-hyped private venture, can only work if NASA helps pay for it     

A single layer of tin atoms could be the world's first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computer chips operate, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by res...