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British-American scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian couple May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for discovering an "inner GPS" within the brain. This mechanism, discovered in...

A new study, conducted on more than 250,000 subjects, has almost doubled the number of known gene regions -- including nearly 700 genes -- that influence height. The study by the international Genetic Investigation of An...

Tiny vesicles containing protective substances that they transmit to nerve cells apparently play an important role in the functioning of neurons. As cell biologists have discovered, nerve cells can enlist the aid of mini...

Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer type in the United States, and it's also the deadliest form of skin cancer, causing more than 75 percent of skin-cancer deaths. If caught early enough though, it is almost always ...

The XMASS collaboration, led by Yoichiro Suzuki at the Kavli IPMU, has reported latest results on warm dark matter search. Their results rule out the possibility that super-weakly interacting massive bosonic particles (B...

New theoretical physics models could help us better grasp the atmospheric chemistry of ozone depletion. Indeed, understanding photoabsorption of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a process which involves the transfer of the energy o...

Researchers have taken an important step towards developing a new X-ray lens made of diamond. A team of scientists from the Technische Universität (TU) Dresden and Technische Universität Chemnitz as well as from DESY h...

Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. They were first discovered in the 1950s as a product of radioactive decay, but they are also produced in nuclear fusion reactions. As a result, copious ...

(Phys.org) --It's the most powerful accelerator-based neutrino experiment ever built in the United States, and the longest-distance one in the world. It's called NOvA, and after nearly five years of construction, scienti...

In a randomized clinical trial of antibiotic treatments for community-acquired pneumonia, researchers did not find that monotherapy with ²-lactam alone was worse than a combination therapy with a macrolide in patients h...

Prenatal exposure to bisphenol A, a common chemical used in some plastics, appears to be inconsistently associated with diminished lung function and the development of persistent wheeze in children.

HIV drug regimens that do not include efavirenz are effective as first-line antiretroviral therapy, a new American clinical trial found. The finding is important for patients who are not eligible for treatment with efavi...

Doctors appeared to 'wear down' during their morning and afternoon clinic sessions, and antibiotic prescribing rates increased the later the day got. "This corresponds to about 5 percent more patients receiving antibioti...

Two studies published by health economists examine spending on oral anti-cancer drugs as well as a federal program designed to help the poor, which researchers say instead helps hospitals boost profits.

The children born to women who were exposed to the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) during pregnancy may be at an increased risk of lung problems, according to a new study.

Hello readers! I would like to introduce myself as the new APS science writing intern, starting work this gloriously sunny and autumnal day in College Park. I have just landed back in the States after completing my PhD i...

To stop identity thieves and counterfeiters, a group of researchers is looking for inspiration from an unlikely source: butterflies.

Study finds the upper levels of the planet's oceans have been warming much faster than previously realized.

Imagine being able to tune the properties of a solid material just by flashing pulses of light on it, for example turning an insulator into a superconductor. That is just one potential payoff down-the-road from the physi...

Many trees put on a show in fall, with their leaves turning hues of orange, yellow, red, purple and brown. But these changing colors can also serve as a marker to help identify trees.

The next generation of aircraft could be thinner and lighter thanks to the development of a new imaging technique that could detect damage previously invisible to acoustic imaging systems.

Anyone who has blown a bubble and seen how quickly it pops has first-hand experience on the major challenge in creating stable foams.