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It was a hundred years after the founding of this country, and only eleven years after the end of the civil war, that a man of African descent first earned a PhD from an American university. His name was Edward Bouchet, ...

Colloidal particles, used in a range of technical applications including foods, inks, paints, and cosmetics, can self-assemble into a remarkable variety of densely-packed crystalline structures. For decades, though, rese...

Researchers have identified important mechanisms underlying how a special type of malignant brain tumor arises in children. Not only do these discoveries give researchers important information about the tumor but they co...

An important learning process is impaired in adolescents who were abused as children, a researcher has found, and this impairment contributes to misbehavior patterns later in life. A new article details the connection be...

A new potential strategy to personalize therapy for brain and blood cancers has now been discovered by researchers.

For infants with congenital malformations of the ear, a treatment system called EarWell can gently reshape the ear, avoiding the pain and cost of later surgery, reports a study.

Transgender and gender-fluid teens, particularly those born male, face up to three times more mental and physical abuse at school and at home than their gender-conforming peers, according to a new study.

Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created by ecologists.

Researchers have introduced a new approach to treat Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death among in older adults. The exact causes of Alzheimer's disease are still unknown, but sever...

Millions of years ago something happened, allowing early Homo sapiens to branch out from the primitive hominoid family tree. Was this crucial turn in human evolution partly driven by seaweed and its particular content of...

Happy memories spring to mind much faster than sad, scary or peaceful ones. Moreover, if you listen to happy or peaceful music, you recall positive memories, whereas if you listen to emotionally scary or sad music, you r...

In a recent study to determine why some individuals who experience symptoms for acute coronary syndrome decide to seek medical attention more quickly than others, a researcher has identified numeracy -- the ability to un...

If an asteroid hits a major city, only 3 per cent of the casualties will be from the crater it forms - most will be from overheated air and high winds

Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Italy, erupted yesterday for the first time this year, spewing rivers of bright orange lava into the night skies over Sicily, according to news reports.

A little-understood biological property that appears to allow cell components to store energy on their outer edges is the possible key to developing a new class of materials and devices to collect, store and manage energ...

Limitations of the piezoelectric array technologies conventionally used for ultrasonics inspired a group of University College London researchers to explore an alternative mechanism for generating ultrasound via light, a...

There are few things more central to life on earth than water. It dominates the physical landscape, covering much of the planet as oceans. It's also a major component of the human body, comprising, for example, more than...

Our universe should be a formless fog of energy. Why isn't it? According to the known laws of physics, the universe we see today should be dark, empty and quiet. There should be no stars, no planets, no galaxies and no l...

In the first week that US scientists recruited the public to help identify a possible ninth planet in our solar system, more than 20,000 people volunteered to join the search. About 50,000 people around the world have si...

A compound called BPA is being phased out of plastic packaging due to fears it may disrupt our hormones - but a replacement for it may be just as harmful

Colorectal cancer rates are on the rise in Millennials and Gen X'ers, a new study finds. The findings come as rates of the disease have continued to decline in adults ages 55 and up, according to the study.

Properties, sources and uses of the element thorium.