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Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania model neural structures in the brain to better understand traumatic brain injury.

NASA's new Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, a solar observatory, caught a huge coronal mass ejection, or CME, which was erupted on the sun on May 9, the space agency said on Friday, and added that this was...

Philosopher Sara Goering discusses neuroethics, the field emerging from the development and use of neural technologies.

Researchers at MIT and U.C. Irvine have developed a new algorithm that can detect actions in video much better than past efforts could. It does by applying the lessons of natural language grammar computer scientists have...

If you're facing a quandary, an iPhone app can help you make choices by getting you to evaluate each of your options from a set of ethical standpoints

A month-long research mission on the ocean floor, led by Fabien Cousteau, the grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, is slated to begin this weekend. Fabien Cousteau and a team of "aquanauts" will spend 31 day...

Unlike female nipples, male nipples appear to be purely decorative. But can they also be functional and secrete milk -- that is, can men lactate?Short answer: Yes, under certain circumstances.

First, a few housekeeping announcements: Those in New York City today can see me at the World Science Festival’s Science and Story Cafe at 1:30 PM, where I’ll be hanging out with... --

Commonly used over-the-counter painkillers such as paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen will usually be strong enough to alleviate common aches and pains.

Transistors are tiny switches that can be triggered by electric signals. They are the basic building blocks of microchips.

In many ways, the history of civilization is the history of chemistry. Humans have always sought to identify, use and change the materials in our environment.

Watermelons may be mostly water but these refreshing fruits are soaked with nutrients.

Watermelons may be mostly water but these fruits are soaked with nutrients. See how much you know about these refreshing fruits.

Photovoltaic cells directly convert sun light into electricity and hence are key technological devices to meet one of the challenges that humankind has to face in this century: a sustainable and clean production of renew...

Printable robots -- those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers -- have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Com...

Everything we know nowadays about novel materials and the underlying processes in them we also know thanks to studies at contemporary synchrotron facilities like BESSY II. Here, relativistic electrons in a storage ring a...

Sweet potatoes are a surprisingly nutritious vegetable. They are especially high in vitamins A, C, E, and B6, fiber and manganese. See how much you know about these special spuds.

About 40 million Americans suffer from seasonal allergies. The most common culprit is pollen.

Moss offers clues in the search for how molecular signals direct cell growth.

(University of Colorado Denver) A study presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting 2014 reports the results of a first-in-human, phase 1 dose escalation trial of crizotinib in 14 patients with ...

(University of Colorado Denver) At the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology, University of Colorado Cancer Center researchers reported results of a Phase I trial of OMP-54F28, an investigatio...

(University of Colorado Denver) Results of a University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology show that a test of organic compounds in exhaled ...