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People who enjoy life maintain better physical function in daily activities and keep up faster walking speeds as they age, compared with people who enjoy life less, according to a new

Cancer cells have something that every prisoner longs for --- a master key that allows them to escape. A new study describes how a protein that promotes tumor growth also enables cancer cells to use

Scientists in Singapore will market novel plastic cell membranes to be used as low-cost, easily maintained drug targets that may help shorten the drug discovery process by weeks or months and cut

Eating high levels of flavonoids including anthocyanins and other compounds (found in berries, tea, and chocolate) could offer protection from type 2 diabetes -- according to research. The study of

Most successful businesses would not accept spending $218 million on lost time, but that's the amount NHL owners pay out every year to players who miss games due to injury, according to new

A new study shows that exposure to secondhand smoke at home or in the car dramatically increases the odds of children being readmitted to the hospital within a year of being admitted for

If the pressure in a patient's brain is too high, physicians implant a system in the head that regulates the pressure. A sensor can now measure and individually adjust brain pressure. The sensor

Public health researchers have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among overweight children and will not halt the global epidemic in

Higher levels of melatonin, a hormone involved in the sleep-wake cycle, may suggest decreased risk for developing advanced prostate cancer, according to results of new

After a mysterious half-hour delay, the Rosetta spacecraft has phoned home that it is alive and well - and has started chasing comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko     

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Cows, pigs and sheep have been fitted with a silicone implant that generates small amounts of energy from the body's natural rhythms – enough to power a pacemaker     

Pockets of water have been detected in dust from our solar system – suggesting that life's ingredients may be spread across the universe     

Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineers say.

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset. Though it is still a prototype, each time Oculus unveils a new update, the applause grows louder. The most recent version, dubbed Crystal Cove, received almost uniformly awed...

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It's difficult to judge distance in the open ocean, but bigfin reef squid have evolved a solution: part of their visual field is completely out of focus     

The Wellcome Library's stunning collection of images reveal centuries of our quest to understand the human body and its illnesses - and they're now free     

Found by accident, an injectable material may vastly reduce damage from inflammation in a range of conditions including heart attack and multiple sclerosis     

(Phys.org) --With the rise of social media, it is possible to organize public demonstrations on larger scales and in less time than ever before. In response, some governments are trying to decide how to regulate and impe...

Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) reveal the physical phenomenon that explains beer's rapid transformation from a liquid to a foamy state as the result of an impact. This research has applications in ...

Until recently measuring a 27-dimensional quantum state would have been a time-consuming, multistage process using a technique called quantum tomography, which is similar to creating a 3D image from many 2D ones. Researc...