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People who have type 2 diabetes may experience more cognitive problems later in life, according to a new study.

The NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto is reaching its conclusion and the spacecraft will wake up for the last time on Saturday. New Horizons will spend the next seven months gathering data on the distant dwarf planet wi...

Clues can be found in the young human brain's need for energy.

A new study will help researchers create longer-lasting, higher-capacity lithium rechargeable batteries, which are commonly used in consumer electronics. In a study published in the journal ACS Nano, researchers showed h...

Chemists and engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a fascinating new way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that's causing the greenhouse effect and use it to make an advanced, high-value mater...

Biologists have solved a long-standing mystery in neuroscience by identifying the "mechanoreceptor" protein that mediates the sense of touch in mammals.

The aging process affects everything from cardiovascular function to memory to sexuality. Most worrisome for many, however, is the potential loss of eyesight due to retinal degeneration.

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have figured out how to reverse the characteristics of a key bonding material -- polyurea -- providing an inexpensive alternative for a broad number of applic...

New technology may soon help lung disease patients around the world breathe a little easier, by helping their doctors make a clearer diagnosis and more individualized treatment plan.

First developed in China in about the year A.D. 150, paper has many uses, the most common being for writing and printing upon. Indeed, the development and spread of civilization owes much to paper's use as writing materi...

Fossil fuel shares are no longer the "safe bet" they once were.

The Orion spacecraft atop a Delta IV rocket waits at the Kennedy Space Center for Thursday's launch.Credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett NASA plans to launch its new human spacecraft, Orion, this Thursday December 4th in its first ...

Researchers working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have combined key features of two highly acclaimed X-ray spectroscopy t...

Using a novel gene knock-in technique, effective insertion of an exogenous gene was demonstrated in human cells and in animal models, including silkworms and frogs. This strategy universally enables gene knock-in not onl...

Researchers have created brain-reading techniques to use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy. This establishes the first biologically based diagnostic tool that ...

A new method for determining lung cancer risk could more efficiently identify individuals for annual screening and catch more cancers early, according to a new study. The study evaluates a lung cancer risk prediction mod...

To stop the spread of HIV in Africa, researchers, using a complex mathematical model, have developed a strategy that focuses on targeting "hot zones," areas where the risk of HIV infection is much higher than the nationa...

The amount of sleep that you get on an average night is influenced by two regions of your DNA, new research finds.

People could be putting their lives at risk by dismissing potential warning signs of cancer as less serious symptoms, according to new research. More than half (53 per cent) of 1,700 people who completed a health questio...

We rely on brain maps to tell us where our bodies are, says Making Space, a clever book that explains the making of the maps

Most scientific research on the topic of physical inactivity has focused on the consequences of physical inactivity for physical health, with significant attention to obesity and medical conditions such as diabetes. A ne...

(Phys.org)--Our current understanding of the universe is that the majority of its mass consists of dark matter (DM) - but there's a wrinkle: Despite having an idea about some of its properties - dark matter is cold, mass...