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An alternative way to access emails, tweets and texts uses a projector disguised as a necklace or brooch to interact with your digital life     

A new study describes the complexity of the new T cell repertoire following immune-depleting therapy to treat multiple sclerosis, improving our understanding of immune tolerance and clinical outcomes.

Experts reveal the spread of antibiotic-resistance to one of the most pristine locations in Asia is linked to the annual human pilgrimages to the region. The research team are now calling on governments around the world ...

A commonly-used HIV drug has been shown to kill off the human papilloma virus (HPV) that leads to cervical cancer in a world-first clinical trial. Researchers examined Kenyan women diagnosed with HPV positive early stage...

A chemist in Copenhagen has just taken out a patent for a drug that can make previously multidrug-resistant bacteria once again responsive to antibiotics.

Small non-coding RNAs can be used to predict if individuals have breast cancer conclude researchers who contribute to The Cancer Genome Atlas project. The results indicate that differences in the levels of specific types...

Scientists have deciphered the 3-D structure of a protein that confers antibiotic resistance from one of the most worrisome disease agents: a strain of bacteria called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), ...

Tularemia, aka "rabbit fever," is endemic in the northeastern United States, and is considered to be a significant risk to biosecurity -- much like anthrax or smallpox -- because it has already been weaponized in various...

Vitamin D as an add-on therapy could provide some relief for chronic hives, a condition with no cure and few treatment options, new research indicates. An allergic skin condition, chronic hives create red, itchy welts on...

On the heels of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's impassioned warning that climate change is pushing our planet towards it's tipping point, Bill Nye and Tennessee congresswoman Marsha Blackburn went head-to-head on NB...

Winter storms, especially in North America and Europe, seem nearly endless these days. After one marches through and dumps its freight, another is just a few paces behind. What's worse, the bitter winter weather we're ex...

(University of Maryland) An interdisciplinary team re-examines Kleiber's Law, a famous 80-year-old equation that accurately describes many biological phenomena, although scientists don't agree on why it works. The team s...

Plop living, swimming bacteria into a novel water-based, nontoxic liquid crystal and a new physics takes over. The dynamic interaction of the bacteria with the liquid crystal creates a novel form of soft matter: living l...

New insights into one of the molecular mechanisms behind light harvesting, the process that enables photosynthetic organisms to thrive, even as weather conditions change from full sunlight to deep cloud cover, will be pr...

CAPTCHA Wikimedia Commons Say good-bye to CAPTCHA, the boxes of warped text that separate humans from bots online. AI company Vicarious claims to have developed an algorithm that can pass the test about 90 percent of the...

Boys with high levels of cortisol and depressive symptoms have a high risk of developing depression. This could be prevented if they can be identified     

Simple sponges can live with 200 times less oxygen than present atmospheric levels, supporting the idea that animals evolved before oxygen-rich oceans     

More girls are seeing "triad" of disorders involving food, menstrual cycles and weak bones.

Step inside a cave of ice that hasn't been accessible since 1999 – now open to visitors brave enough to trek across the frozen surface of Lake Superior     

Scientists from the FOM Foundation and Delft University of Technology have manipulated a quantum particle, merely by looking at it in a smart way. By adjusting the strength of their measurement according to earlier measu...

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