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Researchers at The University of Akron are again spinning inspiration from spider silk -- this time to create more efficient and stronger commercial and biomedical adhesives that could, for example, potentially attach te...

The Black Knight Transformer is an unmanned vehicle designed to combine the capabilities of a truck and a helicopter. The futuristic flying machine could one day be used by the U.S. military to deliver cargo or evacuate ...

There is no longer any good reason to preserve lab samples of smallpox virus, an organism responsible for mass death and destruction, says Gareth Williams

Government, business and science are teaming up to fight one of the biggest threats to modern civilization. No, it's not terrorism or climate change - it's a fungus known as coffee rust that's attacking coffee crops worl...

Parents in low-income families were less likely to delay asthma care for their children or avoid taking their children to see a doctor if they had lower vs. higher levels of health insurance cost-sharing. "The Affordable...

Increased physical activity among women who had gestational diabetes mellitus can lower the risk of progression to type 2 diabetes mellitus. The authors examined the role of physical activity, television watching and oth...

Pulmonary hypertension patients from lower socioeconomic groups present for initial evaluation at a more advanced disease state than those from higher income groups, according to a new study. "Lower socioeconomic status ...

The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer successfully completed its first flight on March 22nd, 2014. The truck and its eight propellors can perform autonomous casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions.

A mysterious and sometimes deadly childhood heart disease called Kawasaki disease may be caused by an airborne fungus, new research suggests.

Six-month-old infants require more information from a cochlear implant than an adult or older child, a study has demonstrated. This may be due to the lack of experience infants have with speech and their inability to fil...

Overweight political candidates tend to receive fewer votes than their thinner opponents, finds a new study by a weight bias expert. Both obese men and women were less likely to get on the ballot in the first place. When...

Even though it could impact their admission or care in the hospital, few seizing patients receive a diagnostic electroencephalogram, or EEG, in the emergency department, says a new study. The team studied the use of EEGs...

Individuals are more genetically similar to their spouses than they are to randomly selected individuals from the same population, according to a new study. Scientists already knew that people tend to marry others who ha...

Researchers have invented a way to wirelessly beam power to programmable devices deep inside the body. These medical chips could be as small as a grain of rice. They would sit alongside nerves, muscles and other tissues....

Biologists used induced plenipotent stem cell technology to discover a destructive cellular process in progeria, a rare genetic disorder that causes premature aging. Patients die in their teens of heart disease or stroke...

This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your... --

Perhaps one of the keys to good health isn't just what you eat but how you taste it. Taste buds -- yes, the same ones you may blame for that sweet tooth or French fry craving -- may in fact have a powerful role in a long...

The likely causative agent of Kawasaki disease (KD) in Japan is a windborne agent originating from a source in northeast China, an international research team has concluded. KD is a mysterious childhood ailment that can ...

A Reaper Drone Landing At Kandahar Airbase in Helmand, Afghanistan. This specific drone used by the United Kingdom in Afghanistan, but many more of the same type are used by the United States for both surveillance and ar...

Researchers say that soon it will be possible to smash photons together to create matter in the laboratory.

A female, clouded leopard cub has joined the Denver Zoo's two existing cubs of the same species in an effort to breed the rare cats.

Pancreatic cancer is projected to become the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States in 2030, overtaking deaths from breast and colon cancers, according to a new report.