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Scientists report first ever successful nose reconstruction surgery using cartilage grown in the laboratory. Cartilage cells were extracted from the patient's nasal septum, multiplied and expanded onto a collagen membran...

John DiFazio has been to war, fought fires and beat cancer - but his battle with hepatitis C has been the longest.

Researchers have embarked on an effort to revitalize the Colorado River delta.

Women with a certain genetic marker may be at increased risk for breast cancer, especially if they are overweight or obese, a new study suggests.

Why do humans seek out alcohol even though it can lead to destructive behavior? One biologist looked to evolution for an answer, and came up with The Drunken Monkey Hypothesis.

When the sun heats water in the oceans, rivers, lakes and other sources, some of it evaporates, or transforms from liquid water to water vapor. This is the first step in cloud formation.

Mitochondria produce energy for cells through oxidative metabolism, but the process produces toxic byproducts that can accumulate and cause defects in the cell's mitochondria. These defects, in turn, affect the cell's ab...

Women with diabetes are 14 percent less likely to be screened for breast cancer compared to women without diabetes, according to a study. "Managing the demands of a chronic condition such as diabetes is challenging for m...

Children and adolescents in foster care and institutional settings often face complex developmental trauma related to multiple or continuous traumatic experiences. However, successful clinical interventions are difficult...

Most Americans say they support the idea of organ donation, yet fewer than half of eligible donors ever register, national polls show. That may be because supporting a good cause doesn't mean people will take action. How...

The public does not realize -- in fact, police themselves may not realize -- that the dangers police officers are exposed to on a daily basis are far worse than anything on "Law and Order."

A technique using anesthesia-containing nanoparticles --- drawn to the targeted area of the body by magnets --- could one day provide a useful alternative to nerve block for local anesthesia in patients, suggests an expe...

For patients undergoing surgery, adding a sedative drug called dexmedetomidine can reduce the necessary doses of other anesthetic drugs, reports a study. The results of this randomized trials show that a relatively low d...

Synthetic cannabis, or 'spice,' seems to be the drug of choice among substance-using American soldiers.

First Flight Of The Black Knight Advanced Tactics Yesterday Advanced Tactics announced the successful first flight of their Black Knight Transformer, a hybrid truck helicopter designed for military missions. In December,...

Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has determined that homeopathy is utterly, totally, glaringly useless. It's nice when governmental organizations get things right.You could read the NHMRC ...

If you've ever had a tooth pulled, then you might be familiar with a severely painful -- and aptly named -- condition known as dry socket (alveolar osteitis).

The Malaysian government has reportedly launched an investigation into the actions of civil aviation and military officials in connection with the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

100 Years of Life, As Extrapolated By Software You might notice the algorithms were unable to remove the milk mustache from its original reference photo. U of Washington Look at a kid under the age of five, and it's hard...

Astrophotographer Steve Zigler created this image of Zodiacal light in Death Valley, California. See how he did it here.

Bushmeat is still on sale in Ghana despite worries that fruit bats and other bushmeat may be behind the spread of an Ebola outbreak in nearby Liberia and Guinea which has claimed around a hundred lives.

Rising temperatures are affecting the size of salamanders in the Appalachian Mountains.