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A new study shows that smoking reduces calorie intake, possibly modulated by its effect on levels of the hormone ghrelin (also known as the hunger hormone).

A new study shows that increased physical activity among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduces their risk of anxiety or depression.

A new class of drugs called HIF-2 inhibitors is more effective and better tolerated than the standard of care drug sunitinib in treating kidney cancer, researchers have found.

Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered a new combination of materials that paves the way for faster and more effective storage in electronic devices like computers and smartphones. What researchers discovered ...

Warming of the world's oceans is one of this generation's greatest hidden challenges - and one for which we are completely unprepared

After discovering potentially harmful metal particles in our brains seem to come from traffic fumes, a researcher has changed how she travels to avoid them

Iron nanoparticles in our brains may contribute to Alzheimer's disease and we finally know where they come from - air pollution from traffic fumes

We are at the cusp of an energy revolution. This post is a look at how three technologies -- solar, batteries, and electric vehicles (EVs) -- are poised to disrupt a $6 trillion energy industry over the next two decades....

The fruit of the 'asam keping' tree can be used to prevent atherosclerosis - that is the hardening and narrowing of the arteries -, according to research.

With new recruits that keep raining in from up above, this unique society has no queen, and the ants work in pitch darkness with no obvious access to food

It is mostly hereditary factors that lie behind adults with ADHD often developing alcohol dependence and binge eating, concludes new research. Since heredity plays such a large role, it is important that ADHD is treated ...

The loss of CHD1, one of the most frequently mutated genes in prostate tumors, sensitizes human prostate cancer cells to different drugs, including PARP inhibitors. This suggests CHD1 as a potential biomarker for targete...

Gut bacteria also play their role in the immune recovery of HIV patients, an international study has found. The implications of this finding are that new complementary therapies could be developed that target these bacte...

The amount of time a blood sample used for medical research has been stored at a biobank may affect the test results as much as the blood sample provider's age, new research finds. Until now, medical research has taken i...

Esophageal cancer can be classified into three different subtypes, paving the way for testing targeted treatments tailored to patients' disease for the first time, scientists have discovered.

A brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle has now been identified by researchers. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial...

A new technique can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells simultaneously. The advance holds promise for fast drug tests, offers new insights into growth variation across single cells within larger populat...

Biochemists have uncovered patterns in the outer protein coat of group A Streptococcus that could finally lead to a vaccine against this highly infectious bacteria -- responsible for more than 500,000 deaths a year, incl...

Machines can already figure out when we're stressed or upset. Now we're teaching them how to talk to us in those situations

For decades, scientists have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less power -- resulting in longer battery life, faster wireless co...

Worse to come as rising sea temperatures close to Asian mainland pump extra energy into typhoons at landfall

Some antidepressants have been linked to an increased risk of bone fractures. It now seems that fluoxetine - the compound in Prozac - depletes bones over time