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Even before birth, concerned parents often fret over the possibility that their children may have underlying medical issues. Chief among these worries are rare genetic conditions that can drastically shape the course and...

There are three distinct types of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that match up with children's personalities, some researchers suggest.

A staple food for millennia, wheat is now accused of causing everything from gut ailments to mental disorders. Linda Geddes separates the facts from the chaff (full text available to subscribers)

The U.S. military has chosen two universities to lead a program to develop brain implants to restore memory to veterans who have suffered brain injuries, officials said at a news conference yesterday (July 8).

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times. The key material: sand. Yes, sand.

Satellites could be a promising tool for tracking Arctic wildlife on the ground, a new study suggests.

Russia successfully launched Wednesday its first new space rocket design in more than two decades. The Angara 1.2PP rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in the subarctic north. The Angara 1.2PP is th...

Nikola Tesla, genius inventor, and Thomas Edison, expert businessman.

A Northern anchovy school was the largest group of anchovies ever seen offshore of La Jolla in the last 30 years.

NANOG, an essential gene for embryonic stem cells, also regulates cell division in stratified epithelia in adult organisms, researchers have found. According to the conclusions of the study this factor could also play a ...

Obesity is common among US Hispanics and is severe among young Hispanics. The first large-scale data on body mass index (BMI) and cardiovascular disease risk factors among U.S. Hispanic/Latino adult populations suggests ...

The ability to switch out one gene for another in a line of living stem cells has only crossed from science fiction to reality within this decade. As with any new technology, it brings with it both promise -- the hope of...

Bacteria found in the bladders of healthy women differ from bacteria in women with a common form of incontinence, according to researchers. Approximately 15 percent of women suffer from UUI and yet an estimated 40 -- 50 ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN), the largest professional association of neurologists and a leading authority on sports concussion, is releasing a new position paper that states doctors have an ethical obligation...

Focusing on the center -- and it's wide -- how polarized is the United States?

This 4th of July let's enjoy the spectacular displays inside us, too.

Nearly 90,000 U.S. adults visit the emergency room for side effects from prescription psychiatric medications yearly, more than 10,000 of which are related to the sleep drug Ambien.

Two satellite images show how the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo has grown over two decades, with spreading suburbs and new ring roads.

Hundreds of women are raped in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo every day. A new app for doctors could help prosecute some of the perpetrators

A massive school of anchovies swarmed offshore of La Jolla, San Diego, on July 8, 2014. Scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography swam with the silvery fish and collected samples for study.

Nikola Tesla, who gave science some of its greatest technologies, has been somewhat overlooked for his achievements. Here are a few other scientists who were robbed of their dues in the annals of science.

When a superconductor is exposed to a magnetic field, a current on its surface appears which creates a counter field that cancels the magnetic field inside the superconductor. This phenomenon, known as "Meissner-Ochsenfe...