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(Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology(UNIST)) Researchers at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea have developed an exiting new catalyst that can split water into hydrog...

University of Toronto (U of T) researchers have demonstrated a way to increase the resolution of microscopes and telescopes beyond long-accepted limitations by tapping into previously neglected properties of light. The m...

Research was recently reported about the use of pigs to grow human organs for transplant. While this is a ways off from becoming a reality, the idea raises ethical concerns. What do you think? Join the discussion.

In small trials across Africa, the therapies cured people with even the most drug-resistant forms of TB, and more quickly than current treatments

Researchers have shown that increasing the levels of active vitamin D can help to optimize muscle strength in humans.

New clues to the link between Nodding syndrome, a devastating form of pediatric epilepsy found in specific areas of east Africa, and a parasitic worm that can cause river blindness have now been uncovered by researchers....

Young Coloradans diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia are more likely to live in areas of high-density oil and gas development compared to young Coloradans diagnosed with other types of cancer, according to research...

Scientists now have identified a route by which fat also can deliver a form of small RNAs called microRNAs that helps to regulate other organs. This mechanism may offer the potential to develop an entirely new therapeuti...

More than six decades after Castleman disease (CD) was first described, a group of experts has established the first set of diagnostic criteria for a life-threatening subtype of the condition, idiopathic multicentric CD ...

An analysis of a patient's deadly brain tumor helped doctors identify new emerging mutations and keep a 55-year old woman alive for more than five years, researchers report.

Through new study scientists were looking for a way to tease apart the effects of preeclampsia on the risk of developing retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), an eye disease found in premature infants.

A pilot study tracking adolescents' internal psychological states and physical activity in near real-time challenges prevailing assumptions about how to increase physical activity.

NODDING syndrome is a form of epilepsy that strikes children, mostly between the ages of five and 15. Despite the innocuous name, it is debilitating. It robs its victims of their mental capacity, stunts their growth and ...

Researchers have demonstrated in a clinical trial that a new vaccine for malaria called Sanaria® PfSPZ-CVac has been up to 100 percent effective when assessed at 10 weeks after last dose of vaccine. For the trial, scien...

Evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a potential cause of dementia caused by repeated blows to the head, has been found in the brains of former association football (soccer) players.

New research shows how epithelial cells naturally turn over, maintaining constant numbers between cell division and cell death.

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in infants with older siblings with autism, researchers from around the country were able to correctly predict 80 percent of those infants who would later meet criteria for autism a...

Scientists have shown that deleting the gene for this protein, known as IP6K1, protects animal models from both obesity and diabetes.

Stress testing may not always be necessary for those with non-urgent chest pain, suggest researchers in a new report.

Clinical decision-making and treatment choice is a complex cognitive process influenced by multiple variables, report researchers.

Weird consciousnesses called Boltzmann brains arise in many cosmological theories - but we now have reason to rule them out unless we live in an old universe

A 40-year quest to resolve discrepancies between climate models and observations just got another false start. Are we missing something more fundamental?