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New technology called spectral CT imaging allows clinicians to get a more complete picture of patients' health. The technology for colored imaging is not only on the horizon, but it is also on the campus of a research fa...

Wearing video cameras, the world's smallest penguins have revealed their hunting secrets: The little blue birds swim together to stalk groups of prey, but when it comes to catching and killing their meals, it's every pen...

Researchers fastened a camera to a little penguin in order to study its foraging behavior. The study found that the penguins tend work together to capture 'schooling prey' and are likely to work alone for 'solitary prey'...

Using genetic tools to interrogate cell types sheds light on how the brain processes visual information, report scientists. Learning how the brain analyzes visual information at a detailed level may one day help doctors ...

Using 20 years of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from tens of thousands of brain imaging experiments, computational neuroscientists have created a geometry-based method for massive data analysis to rea...

Waiting 30 seconds in between bites of food allows children to realize they're no longer hungry before they overeat -- preventing excessive weight gain, concludes a new study.

There was no additional incidence of gastroenteritis or water-related diseases caused by use of treated greywater in gardens, even when compared to tap water and other irrigation water sources, researchers report at the ...

To prevent preeclampsia, new research suggests that low-dose aspirin should be given prophylactically to all women at high risk (those with diabetes or chronic hypertension) and any woman with two or more moderate risk f...

A new cellular structure responsible for previously unexplained rejection of organ transplants has been identified. This discovery could one day revolutionize transplantation practice by modifying risk assessment of reje...

A team of researchers has found quantitative evidence proving that extrinsic risk factors, such as environmental exposures and behaviors weigh heavily on the development of a vast majority (approximately 70 to 90 percent...

The first clinically-relevant mouse model of human breast cancer to successfully express functional estrogen receptor positive adenocarcinomas has been created by researchers. This model should be a powerful tool for tes...

A tongue-in-cheek medical journal article takes a spooky tone with its metaphor for infectious disease.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Duke University have developed a metamaterial made of paper and aluminum that can manipulate acoustic waves to more than double the resolution of acoustic imaging, foc...

New reports on the modular construction of certain types of protein molecules are the latest in a series of advances in protein structure prediction and design. Because naturally occurring proteins act as nanomachines to...

The gigantic accelerator in Europe has produced hints of an exotic particle that defies the known laws of physics --

Tuberculosis (TB) is a highly infectious disease and a major global health problem, especially in countries with developing health care systems. Because there is no fast, easy way to detect TB, the deadly infection can s...

A picture is worth a thousand words, or, in Greenland, a thousand scientific measurements.

An early look at what to expect from Episode VII.

Using antibiotics alone to treat children with uncomplicated acute appendicitis is a reasonable alternative to surgery when chosen by the family. A new study has found that three out of four children with uncomplicated a...

Author and PBS host Robert Lawrence Kuhn brings his unique, mind-bending questions to the Expert Voices platform.

Intermittent fasting, or fasting just a few days a week, was initially decried by health experts as unhealthy. But new studies show it might not be so bad.

Are real lightsabers possible?