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The discovery of thousands of bones at a site near Cardiff suggests massive bring-your-own-pig festivals helped Britons deal with the collapse of Bronze Age

Drugs used to treat common complaints could delay the recovery of brain injury patients according to new research.

Patients with community-acquired pneumonia who received corticosteroids were discharged from hospital sooner, new research indicates, and results showed a reduction in the need for mechanical ventilation and the likeliho...

A first-of-its kind study found that knee replacements effectively treat degeneration caused by a bone deformity called Blount disease. Patients who underwent total joint replacements on one or both knees were found to h...

Through identification of increased toxin production by epidemic forms of group A streptococcus (the 'flesh-eating' bacterium), for the first time scientists are able to pinpoint the molecular events that contribute to l...

Teens with major depression or bipolar disorder are at high risk of early heart and blood vessel disease. For the first time, experts urge early monitoring and assertive intervention to reduce risk factors for heart and ...

Adults who chow down on traditional Southern foods -- such as fried chicken, gravy-smothered liver, buttered rolls and sweet tea -- may be at an increased risk of acute heart disease, a new study finds.

American researchers assessing clinical performance measures examined 16 national collections of performance measures and found that more than 90 percent of 521 outpatient measures targeted underuse of care and only 7 pe...

A researcher is studying ways to advance the next generation of cell culture technologies--the removal of stem cells from an organism and the controlled growth of those cells in an engineering environment--that could tre...

Southern favorites like fried chicken and bacon may taste great when consumed, but they can have negative effects on heart health, according to researchers.

Scientists have identified a molecular partnership in pancreatic cancer cells that might help to explain how the disease spreads -- metastasizes -- in some cases. Their findings reveal urgently needed new targets to trea...

New research demonstrates a new technology advancing the field of genome engineering. The method significantly improves the ability of scientists to target specific faulty genes, and then 'edit' them, replacing the damag...

Researchers who have revealed a highly efficient way that bacteria use toxins to interrupt the immune response say that until now, the trickery of these toxins has been underappreciated in science.

Scientists have identified two proteins that appear to have a protective effect in the set of neurons most affected by this degenerative disease. When their activity wanes, disease sets in. This discovery suggests new av...

A new study defines the core set of genes and functions that a bacterial cell needs to sustain life. The research, which answers the fundamental question of what minimum set of functions bacterial cells require to surviv...

Human memory is the result of different mental processes, such as learning, remembering and forgetting. However, these distinct processes cannot be observed directly. Researchers have now succeeded at describing them usi...

Number crunching can be a powerful tool, but only if we all think carefully about the data behind the results.

A schematic illustration of the IceCube detector array.Image courtesy Phys.psu.edu Astrophysicists from IceCube, a neutrino research facility near the south pole, have just reported the observation of a neutrino moving ...

Wind energy pricing is at an all-time low, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The prices offered by wind projects to ...

An analysis of pregnant women has suggested that children's IQ would rise if mothers-to-be took iodine supplements, but others question the benefits

Beijing has seen explosive growth in recent years, with the physical size of the city quadrupling in just a decade, a new study reveals.

NASA needs your help to bolster current earthquake detection technologies, and they're offering $25,000 to the team that develops the best way to detect an oncoming quake.