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A novel treatment method -- endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty -- might offer a new solution for obese patients. Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is a minimally invasive, safe and cost-effective weight loss intervention, accor...

Tectonic plates may have inched across the Earth's surface to where they are now over billions of years. But they left behind traces of their movement under the sea in bumps and gashes that researchers can map.

In a study in type 2 diabetic rats, researchers have identified alterations in specific nerve cells that are important for odor identification. The findings might explain why type 2 diabetic patients often experience sme...

For more than 100 years, scientists have debated what the underlying molecular structure of water is, and the common view has been that H2O molecules are either "water-like" or "ice-like." Now through computer simulation...

People who use opioid medicines for pain may face a higher risk of depression, a new study finds.

To prevent heart disease deaths, people may want to focus more on eating more unsaturated fat, rather than eating less saturated fat, a new study suggests.

THE past two decades have seen astronomers' catalogue of planets expand over two-hundredfold, as new techniques and better telescopes have found more than 2,000 of them orbiting stars other than the sun. But in the solar...

A lithium-ion battery that self heats if the temperature is below 32 degrees Fahrenheit has multiple applications, but may have the most impact on relieving winter "range anxiety" for electric vehicle owners, according t...

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying a small voltage. The material then stays in its new con...

In a survey of students at nine U.S. colleges and universities, the percentage of undergraduate women who experienced a sexual assault, defined as sexual battery or rape, during 2014-2015 academic year varied considerabl...

Regions of the brain that normally work together to process emotion become decoupled in people who experience multiple episodes of depression, neuroscientists report. The findings may help identify which patients will be...

In use for more than 20 years, the varicella zoster virus vaccine for chickenpox and shingles is considered an essential medicine by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, researchers have found, in rare instances...

Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it's not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize ...

The well-preserved bones of a juvenile meat-eating dinosaur found in Wales promise to reveal secrets about how Jurassic species diversified

Two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic period in the U.K., and...

A test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections could prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics that speeds the rise of drug resistance

Infographic from Scientific American breaks down the technology behind our ongoing search for ripples in spacetime --

A possible planet - larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - orbiting the Sun once every 15,000 years, could explain the peculiar clumping of Kuiper Belt Objects in our solar system.

The power source for Earth's magnetic field may be magnesium minerals trapped in the core since our planet's violent birth.

The oldest known evidence of human warfare has been unearthed in Kenya, suggesting warfare is an ancient part of the human repertoire.

The oldest known evidence of human warfare has been unearthed in Kenya, suggesting that warfare is an ancient part of the human repertoire.

Ten skeletons found near Lake Turkana in Kenya show signs of violent death in the oldest known incident of hunter-gatherer warfare, 10,000 years ago