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Scientists in the STAR collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), a particle accelerator exploring nuclear physics and the building blocks of matter at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven Nationa...

It's not every day my Twitter feed is full of people talking about flat-tops, squeezing and injections, but then Wednesday 3 June was not an average day for the Large Hadron Collider.

The MERS virus could be imported into the United States but is unlikely to spread very much, one expert says.

A small spacecraft launched last month has overcome technical difficulties to unfurl a sail designed to catch the solar wind

Electronics that can be used to monitor brain activity are getting more flexible.

Greater life satisfaction in adults older than 50 years of age is related to a reduced risk of mortality, new research shows. The researchers also found that variability in life satisfaction across time increases risk of...

An upset in the body's natural balance of gut bacteria that may lead to life-threatening bloodstream infections can be reversed by enhancing a specific immune defense response, researchers have found.

A rare and deadly form of inherited arrhythmia has been identified by researchers, who have developed a method to treat it. Arrhythmia is a malfunction of the heart's electrical system that causes irregular heartbeats. M...

Inhibiting the immune receptor protein TLR4 may not be a wise treatment strategy in all cancers, researchers have discovered, countering previously held beliefs,

A new approach for studying the cancer genome has been described by researchers who say that it will let scientists account for both the individual tiles and the whole mosaic. It enables researchers and clinicians to loo...

I often consult for Fortune 500 companies who are looking for ways to innovate (quickly). Perhaps they've heard the stat that 40 percent of today's Fortune 500 companies will no longer...

One hundred species every day ... species extinctions may be masked by our focus on big vertebrates, instead of tiny invertebrates that make up most of biodiversity

As Ebola devastated West Africa, Ian Crozier flew in to help. Weeks later he too became infected. Dubbed the sickest man ever to survive Ebola, this is his story (full text available to subscribers)

Children with traumatic brain injuries have poorer sleep and more daytime sleepiness in comparison to healthy children, new research confirms. The children with TBI also had impaired emotional, physical and social functi...

In a finding important for preventing the development of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, researchers have determined that the duration of antibiotic treatment for complicated abdominal infections can be cut by half and r...

A recently developed tool can accurately predict the risk of death for patients within one year after admission to hospital using routinely collected data, reports a new study.

A potentially important discovery has been made in the battle against one of the most devastating forms of leukemia that accounts for as many as one in five children with a particularly aggressive form of the disease rel...

Public reporting of health care quality and patient safety information has reached unprecedented levels, allowing patients to play an increasing role in their own health care decisions; however, as access to information ...

New research offers insights about why healthy people are interested in getting their genomes sequenced and interpreted, even when there is no immediate medical need.

Augmenting a naturally occurring molecule in the body can help protect against obesity-related diseases by reducing inflammation in the fat tissues, researchers report.

Our longer lives have upped the number of years for which we are plagued by disease, and the conditions we get are changing

A survey about men and their cars reveal that 80 percent of men could remember the make and model of their first car but only 50 percent could remember their last physical exam.