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Planetary Resources, which aims to extract water and other useful materials from asteroids, has 3D-printed an object using metals from a space rock.

Wearables that track steps and heartbeats are a dime a dozen these days. Now some new health gadgets aim to look deep inside the body.

A new statement supporting increased coverage of exercise programming by health plans for individuals with mental illnesses has been released. The brief includes an assessment of current policies and recommends policy ac...

Despite good intentions, short-term international training programs for medical students may create problems for local health care.

Fibrocartilage tissue in the knee is comprised of a more varied molecular structure than researchers previously appreciated. New work informs ways to better treat such injuries as knee meniscus tears -- treatment of whic...

Our eyes are especially demanding when it comes to energy: along with our brain, they require a substantial amount of power to keep them functioning and healthy. Now a new study suggests that because of their high-energy...

New research suggests that medical advice given on internet health forums may be of better quality than people tend to assume.

A new technique that has the potential to treat inherited diseases by removing genetic defects has been shown for the first time to hinder retinal degeneration in rats with a type of inherited blindness, according to a n...

Scientists have found a potential way to influence long-term memory formation in the immune system.

An anti-rheumatic drug could improve the prognosis for ovarian cancer patients exhibiting a deficiency of the DNA repair protein BRCA1, a study has found. Auranofin is currently undergoing trials for repurposing to treat...

The ratio of certain messengers in the blood of pregnant women can be used to reliably rule out preeclampsia, and to predict the risk of complications, results from an international multicenter study have demonstrated.

Veterans who participated in a series of tests during the 1960s known as Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense) show no significant increase in adverse health outcomes, specific causes of death, or death rates compa...

Despite the prevalence of thyroid disease and its sometimes serious effects, researchers have struggled to answer a pretty basic question about the hormone-producing gland: What turns it on? A new study provides an answe...

Many doctors will ask about quality of sleep when children have problems at school, but new research shows it's just as important to pay attention to how high achievers are sleeping.

NASA recently announced that they test fired a research rocket engine. Nothing special about that--other than the fact said engine was 75 percent 3D printed parts. As industrial 3D printing...

A twist on a classic free will experiment suggests that impulsive people have less time to veto their own actions once the decision to act has been made

When a greenish fireball streaked above the Australian Outback in November, meteorite researchers went searching for the space rock that caused this cosmic display. This week they announced they had found the ancient met...

During the age of the dinosaurs, three tiny mantises became engulfed in glops of sticky amber and stayed there, preserved, until researchers discovered the entombed critters millions of years later.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a revolutionary system for monitoring vital signs that could lead to improved detection and prevention of some cardiovascular issues, as well as greater independen...

Acoustics experts have created a new class of sound wave - the first in more than half a century - in a breakthrough they hope could lead to a revolution in stem cell therapy.

Just in time for the icy grip of winter: A team of researchers led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has identified several mechanisms that make a new...

(Phys.org)--Most people think of music as more of an art than a science. Although sound is a wave, and can therefore be described by the laws of physics, understanding how certain patterns of sound waves create what we p...