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Fusion power has long been considered to be the holy grail of alternative energy. Clean, abundant power, created through a self-sustaining process where atomic nuclei are fused at extremely high temperatures. Achieving t...

It may start with a simple word you can't pronounce. Your tongue and lips stumble, and gibberish comes out. Misspeaking might draw a chuckle from family and friends. But, then, it keeps happening. Progressively, more and...

Unexpected convergent consequences...this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (the second of seven) is a look at artificial intelligence. Future pos...

Major infections such as influenza and bacterial sepsis kill millions of people each year, often resulting from dangerous complications that impair the body's blood vessels. But the reasons why some patients experience t...

Heart attack patients who experience cardiogenic shock have a higher risk of death or rehospitalization than non-shock patients in the first 60 days post-discharge, but by the end of the first year, the gap between the t...

A Danish study has found that children's exam results get worse for every hour later in the day that they sit a standardised test

Researcher studies the impact of CMV on healthcare providers.

Scientists studying one of the world's most virulent pathogens and a separate very common bacterium have discovered a new way that some bacteria can spread rapidly throughout the body - by hitchhiking on our own immune c...

Other casualties of conflicts in the region include Arabian leopards and Mali's desert elephants, squeezed out and killed by militias and poachers

Nephrologists are making major progress on a first-of-its kind device to free kidney patients from dialysis. He is building an implantable artificial kidney with microchip filters and living kidney cells that will be pow...

Light can be used to control the transport of proteins from the cell nucleus with the aid of a light-sensitive, genetically modified plant protein. Biologists working in the field of optogenetics have now developed such ...

The unexpected death of the conservative and controversial Justice could signal a sea change in US climate change, gun and abortion laws

Raising a child together has a greater effect on your immune system than the seasonal 'flu vaccine or travellers' gastroenteritis, a new study has found.

Scientists have concluded a study of how inherited genetic variations in the NUDT15 gene cause serious chemotherapy toxicity; findings point to potential genetics-guided precision medicine.

A critical discovery about how bacteria feed on an unusual sugar molecule found in leafy green vegetables could hold the key to explaining how 'good' bacteria protect our gut and promote health. The finding suggests that...

Hospitals serving children may face financial penalties for patient readmissions due to factors beyond the control of the hospital, a team of researchers from children's hospitals across the country has found.

Eating fish more than three times a week during pregnancy was associated with mothers giving birth to babies at increased risk of rapid growth in infancy and of childhood obesity, according to a new article.

Researchers have identified how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii makes its way across the blood-brain barrier.

A relatively newly discovered group of immune cells known as ILCs have been examined in detail. By analyzing the gene expression in individual tonsil cells, scientists have found three previously unknown subgroups of ILC...

Using a sophisticated, custom-designed 3-D printer, regenerative medicine scientists have proved that it is feasible to print living tissue structures to replace injured or diseased tissue in patients.

Do you consider yourself an entrepreneur aspiring to launch a startup? Increasingly, you're not alone. Developing technologies are opening entrepreneurship up to more people, while successful new startups are popping up ...

In what may provide a potential path to processing information in a quantum computer, researchers have switched an intrinsic property of electrons from an excited state to a relaxed state on demand using a device that se...