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Walking is good, but for older adults, walking faster may be better.

It's OK for pregnant moms to sip their morning mug.

They were the worst of times. (Really, the worst.)

Scientists have made the first-ever calculation of a prediction involving the decay of certain matter and antimatter particles. Sometimes the tiniest difference between a prediction and a result can tell scientists that ...

Entanglement is one of the strangest phenomena predicted by quantum mechanics, the theory that underlies most of modern physics. It says that two particles can be so inextricably connected that the state of one particle ...

Merging biology with electricity could help us control and direct the growth of crops and trees, or even grow computers in plants

The 13-foot-tall trees were tightly packed into this 385-million-year-old forest. Here's a look at the fossilized remains of the sprawling ecosystem.

The giant rock weighs nearly half a pound.

Global deforestation cuts already agreed by corporations could help meet the 2 °C warming target expected at the Paris summit, but progress has been slow

Success will depend on whether claims of the salmon's commercial benefits prove true and if supermarkets change their plans not to stock it

Ali M. Ismail, Entrepreneur Graduate Studies Program 2015 Graduate Baghdad, Iraq Ali Ismail had been patiently waiting in Baghdad for the arrival of a visa the US embassy was mailing him....

An ancient fossil forest in Norway with tropical origins is one of the earliest forests to appear on Earth.

Preeclampsia is generally diagnosed later in pregnancy, but new research reports that the protein copeptin can predict the development of preeclampsia as early as six weeks of gestation. The findings could lead to diagno...

A personalized method for testing the effectiveness of drugs that treat multiple myeloma may predict quickly and more accurately the best treatments for individual patients with the bone marrow cancer. The process also m...

Countywide reductions in psychiatric services -- both inpatient and outpatient -- led to more than triple the number of emergency psychiatric consults and 55 percent increases in lengths of stay for psychiatric patients ...

Sperm cells mature during their transit in the epididymis and thus acquire their ability to fertilize ova. Scientists have now discovered that signaling molecules of the Wnt family coordinate this maturation process. A s...

A trunk containing about 2,600 undelivered letters -- 600 of them unopened -- was recently rediscovered. Researchers are now collaborating on a new project to study the rare archive.

Due to disease-related changes in their brain, pain patients often suffer from an impaired tactile ability in their hands. In a new study, high frequency repetitive stimulation was investigated as a therapeutic approach ...

New data show that the air along the coasts is full of hazardous nanoparticles from sea traffic. Almost half of the measured particles stem from sea traffic emissions, while the rest is deemed to be mainly from cars but ...

Instead of focusing on drawing out the length of life, researchers have created a tool that can be used for accurately predicting lifespan as well as assessing the current health state, and discovered the regulatory mech...

Many European hospitals fail to routinely test people who may be at risk of an HIV-infection, a new study reveals. If tests were more widely used in healthcare, fewer HIV-patients would go unnoticed, especially in Northe...

Virtual reality has potential to revolutionize some aspects of medicine and healthcare. Several medical specialties are already using it to train physicians and assist diagnosis and it also has potential for treatment. A...