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A really weird, really tiny animal -- the microscopic tardigrade -- is the inspiration behind a new material that could improve the efficiency of things like LED lights to solar cells.

A giant slab of ice as big as California and Texas put together lurks just beneath the surface of Mars between its equator and north pole, researchers say. This ice may be the result of snowfall tens of millions of years...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has begun beaming home tens of gigabits of data gathered during its historic July 14 flyby of Pluto. The entire flyby data set should be on the ground in about 12 months.

High intensity training (HIT) is often recommended as a way to improve cardiovascular fitness in men and women. However, studies on these exercise regimens have focused on younger subjects. Researchers looked at whether ...

By more selectively targeting cancer cells, a newly discovered method offers a strategy to reduce the length of and physical toll associated with current treatments.

The bacteria in your gut may affect your heart health, a new study finds.

Editing errors in the DNA of developing T and B cells can cause blood cancers. Now, researchers have shown that when the enzyme key to cutting and pasting segments of DNA hits so-called 'off-target' spots on a chromosome...

Results of a randomized clinical trial of a cognitive intervention to improve learning and memory in individuals with traumatic brain injury have been published. The treatment protocol, the modified Story Memory Techniqu...

A prospective longitudinal study of US Marines suggests that reduced heart rate variability -- the changing time interval between heartbeats -- may be a contributing risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Young and middle-aged adults who get too much or too little sleep or have poor quality sleep are at higher risk for the early signs of heart disease than those who get adequate, good quality sleep, research shows.

Do you love surprises? What about surprises involving venomous spiders?

When it comes to sleep and heart health, it looks like there's a sweet spot.

Building a wall won't protect you from today's cyber-threats.

A new molecular 'switch' has been discovered that controls the properties of neurons in response to changes in the activity of their neural network. The findings suggest that the 'hardware' in our brain is tuneable and c...

Stanford scientists produced a common cancer drug -- previously only available from an endangered plant -- in a common laboratory plant. This work could lead to a more stable supply of the drug and allow scientists to ma...

What happens when you gather four thousand distinguished physicists in the nation's gambling capital for a conference? A bad week for the casino, but for a somewhat surprising reason.It was the American Physical Society'...

As part of a comprehensive treatment plan, a variety of technologies offer new hope to people living with chronic pain. This article reviews a few of these, in an effort to give hope to those who suffer.

A new risk assessment scoring system has been developed that could help physicians judge which patients can forgo invasive colonoscopy testing for cancer screening and which should receive the test.

It's not lightsaber time, not yet. But a team including theoretical physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken another step toward building objects out of photons, and the finding...

Treating depressed individuals and figuring out who will and won't respond to antidepressants is mostly trial and error, but a new study may shed some light on predicting the response of a group of depressed individuals ...

Staying on an internal schedule is important for health, and disease can occur if the body's internal clock is disrupted. A new study reinforces the importance of circadian rhythm, reporting that chronic drinking contrib...

A compound found in breast milk, named fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21), plays a key role in neonatal nutrient absorption and intestinal function. FGF21 also contributes to improve newborn growth and metabolic profile...