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Today's computers often use as many as four different kinds of memory technology, from the hard drive to the memory chips, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. A new memory technology may be poised to disrupt this...

Researchers are looking at a drug once used to improve blood flow in damaged hearts in thousands of patients as a possible treatment option for triple negative breast cancer.

The supermassive black hole at the galaxy's heart can stretch and shred stars that approach - then fling the shreds away as spheres as small as Neptune

If you're a Physics Buzz regular, you've read about radio pulsars before (most recently here). A pulsar forms when a massive star explodes and its outer layers are blown away. The inside core contracts, resulting in an e...

African Americans may be less responsive to asthma treatment and more likely to die from the condition, in part, because they have a unique type of airway inflammation, according to a study. The study is one of the large...

Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis is an inflammatory disease that affects the central nervous system. It is a rare autoimmune disease that results in the body producing antibodies against the NMDA receptor, a protein that ...

By developing a new mouse model to study a poorly understood protein, researchers uncovered its link to metaplastic breast cancer, opening the door to better understanding of this challenging breast cancer subtype.

One in five US gun owners who obtained a firearm in the past two years did so without a back­ground check, according to a new, American national survey.

A review of 207 studies involving more than 20,000 people found that those who engaged in therapeutic interventions were, on average, significantly less neurotic and a bit more extraverted after the interventions than th...

Processed foods are higher in calories, sugar, sodium, and saturated fat than natural foods, but prepackaged, processed meals remain a popular choice for many consumers because they reduce the energy, time, and cooking s...

Researchers report on the use of biomaterials-based organoids in an attempt to reproduce immune-system events and gain a better understanding of B cells.

More people are dying from eating disorders than any other psychiatric disorder, and professor has discovered a way to help women by significantly reducing eating disorder symptoms in those who are struggling.

The newly unveiled Polaroid Pop gives consumers instant images and digital capabilities to share and enhance those images.

A family in Australia developed health problems after unknowingly moving into a home that was a former meth laboratory.

A new study focused on a family of enzymes -- known as KDM5 -- that have been shown in previous studies to be involved in cancer cell growth and spreading.

For the first time in humans, it has been reported that eating early in the day lessens daily swings in hunger and changes the 24-hour pattern of fat oxidation and energy metabolism, which may aid in weight loss

Researchers have advanced a potential treatment for metaplastic breast cancer--the most aggressive subtype of triple negative breast cancer, into patients in just under four years.

If a trip to Venice is your ideal holiday, then you're going to love the future. Most of us, however, will be quite sobered by Kim Stanley Robinson's upcoming novel, New York 2140, a near-future projection of a world res...

Age is just a number, but aging may be better defined by a change in the patterns of chemicals found in our blood.

Dust particles on the lunar surface appear to "levitate," as there is no wind or flowing water on the moon to otherwise transport the particles, new research shows.

A spike in the "cuddle hormone" helps chimp comrades bond for war with rival groups, and something similar seems to happen in humans

The universe is an astonishingly secretive place. Mysterious substances known as dark matter and dark energy account for some 95% of it. Despite huge effort to find out what they are, we simply don't know.