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Social inequality is directly linked to public support for increasingly harsh criminal justice policy in the UK despite falling crime rates, a study has found. People's attitudes to criminals, say researchers, are not ju...

Nowhere better illustrates the new global health emergency created by air pollution than my home city of Delhi, says Padmaparna Ghosh

Children who still have moderate to severe post-operative pain one month after a surgical procedure are at risk for deterioration of their health-related quality of life, according to new research.

By taking a 1-minute quiz, you can find out if you're at risk for prediabetes. The quiz is part of a new public service campaign.

Looking for classroom activities to teach about civil engineering? We've found some for you.

Xavier has big brown eyes and freckles to match. He is a take-charge kid with sandy blonde hair and boundless energy. Xavier is also on the autism spectrum, diagnosed when he was 3½. Today, Xavier is visiting UW-Madison...

A new fiber that mimics the electricity-producing cells in electric eels could be woven into clothing to power wearable devices.

One of the biggest obstacles to making fusion power practical -- and realizing its promise of virtually limitless and relatively clean energy -- has been that computer models have been unable to predict how the hot, elec...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and Colorado State University, USA, have for the first time ever determined the dynamical behaviour of the ligand layer of a water-soluble gold nanocluster in soluti...

College students who are addicted to the Internet report positive and negative effects on their family relationships, according to new research. The study is the first to show how college students in the United States di...

Cancer drugs known as CDK4/6-inhibitors alter the metabolism of pancreatic cancer cells, revealing a biologic vulnerability that could be exploited for therapeutic gain, researchers have found.

A new study is one of the first to provide quantitative evidence to support anecdotal claims linking reflective ability of medical students and professional behaviors of future physicians.

As countries around the world seek to craft policy frameworks governing the powerful new genetic editing tool, policy makers need to determine 'thresholds of acceptability' for using the technology, according to research...

A research team has now discovered how human macrophages can divide and self-renew almost indefinitely. As the researchers show in their new report, the macrophages achieve this by activating a gene network similar to on...

Targeted school closure policies may help mitigating the spread of pandemic influenza, while entailing lower social costs than more traditional policies, such as nationwide school closure.

While most West Nile Virus infections in humans are asymptomatic and go unnoticed, the virus causes serious and sometimes fatal neurologic illness in some people. A new study suggests that an exaggerated and abnormal imm...

A satellite image shows a developing winter storm moving east toward the mid-Atlantic states.

Nurses' workload reduced with the use of this low-cost sensor, while increasing their productivity by 30%; also significantly decreasing the complications of drug infusion via IV therapy.

Immunotherapy is one of the hottest emerging areas of cancer research. After all, using the body's own cells to fight cancer can be more effective and less invasive than flooding the entire system with toxic chemicals. R...

With the recent fall in gas prices, most drivers might be thinking that now they can afford to take that road trip, take a quick jaunt to the outlet mall, or just drive to work instead of taking public transportation. Th...

The Children's Surgery Verification Quality Improvement Program has released its latest standards document, Optimal Resources for Children's Surgical Care. The standards set forth in this document are the nation's first ...

Lying among beetle specimens in museum collections across Australia was a treasure trove of unidentified weevils. Most had been collected almost 30 years ago and remained unnamed until scientists started cataloging them ...