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Every year, scientists wade into jungles, deserts and museum collections to examine animals and, if they're lucky, discover a new species.

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For the first time, scientists have demonstrated over macroscopic scales the phenomenon exemplified by imaginary feline Schrödinger's cat, which can be alive and dead at the same time.

Modern schedules can lead us to eat around the clock so it is important to understand how this could dull some of the functions of the brain. New research in mice shows that clocks in different regions of the brain start...

Sparked by national debate and efforts to help make football safer for players, research has found that a novel set of helmetless-tackling drills are effective in reducing head impacts by 28 percent in one season.

Even under repeated stress, the brain maintains the potential to adapt and recover. Researchers have shown how changes in gene expression cause these transitory opportunities to open up. Their results suggest well-timed ...

14- and 15-year-olds are at a higher risk of becoming dependent on prescription drugs within a 12-month period after using them extra-medically, or beyond the prescribed amount, new research has determined.

Preclinical data based on experiments in mice suggest the promise of a novel drug directed against a novel target in malignant mammary tumors. The work excites researchers because in mouse models of human metastatic brea...

The world's first guidelines for chronic fungal lung infections for doctors and laboratories have been published for use by clinicians.

Among male kidney transplant candidates, prostate cancer screening was not associated with improved patient survival after transplantation, a new report concludes. Screening increased the time to listing and transplantat...

Blocking a molecule in the uterus could delay or even halt premature birth, the leading cause of death and disability of newborns worldwide, according to a new study in rodents.

There is no substance to multiple media reports that an asteroid passing by Earth will cause earthquakes on our own planet, according to asteroid experts at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The prevalence of chronic kidney disease varies across European countries, ranging from 3 percent to 17 percent. Differences in rates of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity -- which are risk factors for chronic kidney di...

New research using computational neuroscience has unraveled a longstanding mystery of a fundamental property of the brain, topographic organization. The research shows that in the case of pathology, brain maps may underg...

Fifteen years ago, scientists had determined the entire sequence of the genetic letters making up our DNA. But this was only a step in a long journey: in addition to the letters, information is also encoded in the packin...

A long, strange journey for the skull of a predatory dinosaur that lived 70 million years ago in Asia comes full circle, as the stolen fossil finally returns to Mongolia.

A recent study of elderly men found no evidence that obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) increased in severity (or prevalence) as a result of vitamin D deficiency. The researchers also found no evidence to support a link betwe...

The first complete model to describe the role that serotonin plays in brain development and structure has been created by researchers. Serotonin is an important neuromodulator of brain development and the structure and f...

A little information goes a long way in encouraging cancer patients to enroll in clinical trials, a decision that could be potentially lifesaving, new research demonstrates.

A new research discovery is opening a window on cell biology rarely seen before. The work has revealed a real-time look at how genetic information travels within a living cell. The discovery, observed through a specially...

Both acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease were common in patients undergoing major vascular surgical procedures and were associated with an increase in long-term cardiovascular-specific death compared with pati...

Engineers have successfully married electrons and photons within a single-chip microprocessor, a landmark development that opens the door to ultrafast, low-power data crunching.