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(University of California - Los Angeles) Glaucoma is a pervasive disorder that occurs when there is a buildup of pressure in the eye. If left untreated, this can damage the optic nerve, resulting in vision loss. Bioengin...

(University of California - Irvine) University of California Irvine researchers have found a specific genetic flaw that is connected to sudden death due to heart arrhythmia -- a leading cause of mortality for adults arou...

How do you picture the stock market: a bunch of guys yelling at computer screens on Wall Street? A long list of figures in the paper? Or, perhaps, an ever-shifting, higher dimensional jewel? The latter vision is that of ...

Climate change occurs at different speeds in different regions around the planet. Now, researchers have created global maps showing the speed and direction in which certain temperature regimes will change this century.

Habitat ranges shift with climate change, but at different speed around the world. These maps help show how different regions might experience different rates of habitat shifts.

About a quarter of Americans have used websites that rate physicians, and although some people said the sites helped them pick a doctor, others said they distrust the ratings, according to a new study.

Early-warning systems will miss more than half of the space rocks like the one that burst apart over Russia last year, but maybe that's OK     

A 12-year-old student from California has created a Braille printer by repurposing parts from a Lego set. The low-cost invention could be an accessible solution for disadvantaged and visually impaired people across the g...

The Great Lakes are almost completely frozen over for the first time in 10 years, thanks to persistent cold weather.

Right now, the Milky Way hosts about 100 billion stars and each year that number grows. The growth rate of new stars, however, is a sluggish crawl compared to what it was a few billion years ago, explained Dominik Rieche...

With efficiency, energy costs can plummet.

Like long security lines and bad coffee, turbulence is one of the headaches travelers face when they decide to board an airplane. But there are times when turbulence can cause more than just a headache.

Information has been sent from the brain of one animal to the spinal cord of another – another step towards returning movement to paralysed people     

It turns out that Northern California's earthquake lull may be an anomaly. In the 70 years before the 1906 earthquake, the San Andreas Fault unleashed three earthquakes bigger than magnitude-6 in the Santa Cruz Mountains...

A satellite circling the globe captured pictures of the steep peaks outside of Sochi where skiers and snowboarders are striving for Olympic glory.

Personalised, moving models of ballet dancers' internal tissue have allowed doctors to home in on sources of injury – footballers are next     

A new technique can visualize the process of genes being silenced in individual cells, and could one day help doctors understand how sex-linked diseases function.

Change ringing, in which a band of ringers plays long sequences of permutations on a set of peal bells, is a little-known but surprisingly rich and beautiful acoustical application of mathematics --

Research claiming to have turned adult cells into the most versatile stem cells is now under investigation     

The next generation of electricity cables may well be made from lettuce, based on the innovation of a U.K. researcher. The advance could pave the way to biological computers and bio-robots of the future.

Even the International Space Station has to deal with chores and garbage day. Orbital Sciences' first resupply mission was completed on Feb. 18 as the Cygnus spacecraft was loaded with close to 1.5 tons of trash and rele...

The city of Chicago is considering several plans to keep an invasive species of fish from overrunning the Great Lakes, including spending $18 billion to shore up Chicago's canal system. The measure comes on the heels of ...