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Human nutritionist says to look past the social media headline when choosing a diet, because you could be missing important information. "Social media is a great way to get information, but people need a filter and to be...

Even the mildest form of a traumatic brain injury, better known as a concussion, can deal permanent, irreparable damage. Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is using mathematical modeling to better understand t...

In a surprise finding, researchers discovered that several chemotherapeutics that do stop fast growing tumors have the opposite effect on stem cells in the same animal, causing them to divide too rapidly. Not only is the...

The hunt is on to find biomarkers that detect cancer, but it's a challenging process. Early successes often are followed by heartbreaking failures. But now, researchers have verified that glycans (sugars attached to prot...

A new study shows that the use of cocaine dropped by half across the United States from 2006 to 2010, while use of marijuana jumped by more than 30 percent during the period. Studying illegal drug use nationally from 200...

Older people are being denied proper access to cancer care, according to a study. The British lead author of a newly published editorial said: "There is increasing evidence that elderly patients are being 'undertreated,'...

A survey of primary care physicians suggests they often face uncertainty in ordering and interpreting clinical laboratory tests. Physicians have developed their own strategies for ordering and interpreting lab tests, suc...

Young people who have been diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer related to sun exposure, under the age of 25, face a higher risk of developing melanoma and other cancers later in life, a study has shown. The researche...

A healthy and balanced diet, as well as probiotics, have been known to be helpful in preserving gastrointestinal health for quite a long time. But it is only recently that the underlying mechanisms have become somewhat c...

Significant improvements have been made to the diagnostic procedure called sentinel node biopsy for melanoma patients. Sentinel nodes are the first lymph nodes to which cancer cells from a primary tumor like melanoma wil...

In a new study, participants completed a scientifically evaluated questionnaire about what they had been eating and drinking since becoming pregnant. The results show that the group of women with the 'healthiest' pregnan...

What if the use of a product influenced your perception of it, making you even more susceptible to its positive aspects and altering your understanding of its drawbacks? This is precisely what happens with cigarettes in ...

Food picked up just a few seconds after being dropped is less likely to contain bacteria than if it is left for longer periods of time, according to new research. The findings suggest there may be some scientific basis t...

It would take a year for Pam Mace, a registered nurse living in Gross Ille, to understand why she had a stroke at age 37. Signaled by something as seemingly benign as headaches and high blood pressure or dramatic like a ...

Italian physicist Carlo Di Castro, professor emeritus at the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy, shares his recollections of how theoretical condensed matter physics developed in Rome, starting in the 1960s. Luisa Bonoli...

"Cosmos" returned to television with a primetime debut on Fox on Sunday. The show featured an introduction by President Barack Obama and on Twitter, NASA let viewers explore some of the featured moments in the episode, f...

It's difficult to imagine that man could have evolved from an organ-less, multicellular sponge. Then again, that's what hundreds of millions of years of natural selection will do to a species. According to a new study, p...

Genghis Khan had a key ally you might not have expected: a stretch of nice weather. That's at least, what a group of scientists is saying is written in the trees of Mongolia.

Three International Space Station Expedition 38 crew members are set to depart the space station following 166 days in space. NASA will provide a live stream of the ISS departure beginning at 4:30 p.m. EDT when the crew ...

Calling all citizen scientists, NASA wants you to take part in the Asteroid Grand Challenge Contest. The space agency has set up $35,000 in rewards for improved asteroid-hunting algorithms.

On the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, scientists report that radiation from the crippled Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan will reach the west coast of the U.S. sometime next month. But far from painting a nig...

MR-1 Radar System Ukraine's new RADAR system. Ukroboronprom State Concern Last week, Ukraine's state-owned defense conglomerate Ukroboronprom State Concern unveiled the new MR-1 radar system, which, according to a Ukrain...