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E-cigarettes may have helped about 18,000 people in England to give up smoking in 2015, according to new research. It's estimated that 2.8 million people in the UK use e-cigarettes. And they are the most popular smoking ...

Two genes, NR4A1 and ABC transporters, mark a distinct subset of quiescent T cells within human tissues, researchers say. They report that they have developed methods to mobilize them into circulation for potential appli...

Women and minorities may be less likely to receive treatment for stroke, according to a study. For the study, the researchers looked back at more than eight years of hospital records from across the country of people wit...

Cells in the lung are constantly exposed to oxygen and intermittently exposed to other environmental factors, resulting in a susceptibility to oxidative injury. Both alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and cigarette smoking hei...

Cure rates for multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Europe have been estimated to be twice as high as previously thought, according to a research team.

For well over a decade, electrical engineer Holger Schmidt has been developing devices for optical analysis of samples on integrated chip-based platforms, with applications in areas such as biological sensors, virus dete...

While Canadians were winning medals at the Olympics in Rio de Janiero this summer, MoEDAL (pronounced "medal"), the only Canadian-led experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, celebrated its first publishe...

Shear thickening - the increase of a liquid's viscosity through applied force - is a well-known phenomenon. Mix equal parts corn starch and water and you come up with "Oobleck," a liquid that turns solid the more vigorou...

Our brain pays more attention to food when we are hungry than when we are sated. Now a team of scientists has shed light on how the needs of the body affect the way the brain processes visual food cues. In two newly-publ...

IN ENGLISH, the object on your face that smells things is called a "nose", and, if you are generously endowed, you might describe it as "big". The prevailing belief among linguists had been that the sounds used to form t...

An innovative procedure combining MRI and ultrasound to create a 3D image of the prostate can more accurately locate suspicious areas and help diagnose whether it's prostate cancer, new research confirms.

A researcher calls for animal-human embryo research to proceed - but only with strong animal protections in place. So-called "chimera" research raises the hope of producing human organs in genetically modified large anim...

An influx of money coming from investors has got the US Congress interested in funding cold fusion. Such a move would probably be a waste of taxpayer money

Root extracts from the flowering herbal plant Corydalis yanhusuo, or YHS, has widely used for centuries as a pain treatment. Yet few studies have investigated how it works on different forms of pain, and little is known ...

Most of us aren't very comfortable thinking about randomness. People like five-year plans and the comfort of "everything happens for a reason." Even the messy among us claim there's order in their chaos. Despite this, ma...

Allergists realize people who are severely allergic to a food can experience great anxiety when encountering the food in any form. Kids, in particular, can get extremely nervous about the idea of being close to someone e...

As technology progresses in medicine, humans are increasingly gaining more sovereignty over their health. Soon, instead of visiting doctors infrequently to fix health issues as they arise, we'll more pre-emptively monito...

Like their cousins the New Caledonian crows, island-welling Hawaiian crows seem naturally disposed to using tools for getting food

Fishy nanobots, presidential parasite, Virgin Galactic flies again and more

Water reuse means we are all consuming a cocktail of other people's leftover medicines, but measuring their impact is almost impossible. It's time we clean up our act

AI helps fight future fires, reading a book through its cover, and delivery bots get a mother ship

Social networks let us put our best face forward, letting us be someone we're not when offline - but faking it comes with a cost