Science News

Two people in Florida got more than they bargained for in their salad mix.

A "staged" approach to diagnosing depression -- that acknowledges different degrees of symptoms -- could improve the way people are treated.

Researchers have developed a contactless and wireless camera system to continuously monitor the vital signs of premature babies. This system could replace skin sensors, which cause false alarms nearly 90 percent of the t...

Samples from a mud volcano contain biological signatures that suggest microbes lived in the material when it was rock several kilometres beneath the ocean floor

Computer electronics are shrinking to small-enough sizes that the very electrical currents underlying their functions can no longer be used for logic computations in the ways of their larger-scale ancestors. A traditiona...

Ecologists have developed a model that maps the likelihood of Ebola virus "spillovers"--when the virus jumps from its long-term host to humans or animals such as great apes--across Africa on a month-by-month basis.

Cholera cases in East Africa increase by roughly 50,000 during El Niño, the cyclical weather occurrence that profoundly changes global weather patterns, new research suggests.

The ability to distinguish objects in peripheral vision varies significantly between individuals, finds new research. For example, some people are better at spotting things above their center of vision while others are b...

A new study has found a link between neurological birth defects in infants commonly found in pregnant women with diabetes and several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseas...

Too much of a protein already associated with prostate cancer appears to also diminish the energy burning power of brown fat, scientists report.

Pancreatic cancer, most frequently pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, is the most lethal and aggressive of all cancers. Unfortunately, there are not many effective therapies available other than surgery, and that is not a...

A blood test that could help identify bleeding of the brain in infants as a result of abusive head trauma has now been developed by a team of researchers.

The first live-attenuated Zika vaccine still in the development stage completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose, according to new research.

Failure may be an opportunity for growth, but I don't want to be anywhere near the collapsing bridge or malfunctioning airplane that everyone else learns from. When it comes to structural failure, the best place to learn...

The US Food and Drug Administration has given approval to the company 23andMe to market a spit test that assesses a person's risk for 10 diseases

Findings from Rice University physicists working at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are providing new insight about an exotic state of matter called the "quark-gluon plasma" that occurs when protons and neutrons mel...

Researchers have hypothesized that migrations into higher, colder latitudes may lead to evolution of fast-burning metabolisms that keep cells warm in chilly conditions. In a new article, researchers show that a gene that...

Researchers have discovered a potential new drug to treat and stop the progression of cystic fibrosis. Thymosin ?1 (T?1) is a novel therapeutic single molecule-based therapy that not only corrects genetic and tissue defe...

Researchers have uncovered another pathway by which pancreatic cancer cells turn off the system charged with attacking them.

A nanoscale product of human cells that was once considered junk is now known to play an important role in intercellular communication and in many disease processes, including cancer metastasis. Researchers have develope...

Radiation doses can be safely and effectively reduced -- and more consistently administered -- for common CT scans by assessing and comparing doses across hospitals, and then sharing best practices for how much radiation...

A new study provides clues that could enhance physicians' ability to pinpoint, in real-time, which patients are not responding to therapy -- and intervene with additional drugs to boost the chances of shrinking tumors.