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What causes throat-tightening EoE?

Audio-visual feedback helps women who have had an epidural to know when to push, speeding up labour and making tearing and infections less likely

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alerts the public about how plastic is a real detriment to the environment.

This week brought us sensational images of strange animal hearts, a cosmicly provided smiley and even the answer to an age-old question -- how many licks does it take?

If you're a clean-living individual and can pass a few tests, what comes out of your bottom could add to your bottom line

If there's a theme running through the best tech stories this week, it's convergence. There's a tendency to track tech trends in isolation (for example, the iterative steps in smartphone technology). In isolation,...

Valentine's Day may inspire people to buy chocolates for their loved ones or treat their sweetheart to a romantic, candlelit dinner, but animals have entirely different courtship behaviors.

Today is Valentine’s Day. In love? Or just the opposite? Express how you feel with physics-inspired Valentines—and anti-Valentines for those who perhaps aren’t huge fans of the... --

(Ohio State University) The future of electronics could lie in a material from its past, as researchers from The Ohio State University work to turn germanium -- the material of 1940s transistors -- into a potential repla...