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Daily brain stimulation has "awakened" people with brain damage, allowing them to communicate for a week. The tech could eventually be used at home

A robot named Amazing Quick Floor might sound like a new rival to Roomba. Trust me, it's not. Quick Floor's real rivals include The Airnator from Germany, capable of whisking milk into speed (technical details: unclear) ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have produced and precisely measured a spectrum of X-rays using a new, state-of-the-art machine. The instrument they used to measure the X-rays too...

A well-known computational problem seeks to find the most efficient route for a traveling salesman to visit clients in a number of cities. Seemingly simple, it's actually surprisingly complex and much studied, with impli...

How do T cells, the beat cops of the immune system, detect signs of disease without the benefit of eyes? Like most cells, they explore their surroundings through direct physical contact, but how T cells feel out intruder...

Scientists discover a potential predictor for early dementia that could inform the development of drug and therapeutic interventions to treat or slow down the disease.

A variety of tests can predict at an early stage who might develop Alzheimer's and who might develop dementia with Lewy bodies - which could improve intervention

Black holes and quantum mechanics are two of the most intriguing physics topics. Their strange and exotic features certainty capture the imagination. Now, new research in the American Physical Society's journal Physical ...

Results from the PRECISION trial (Efficacy and Safety Outcomes of Radial- vs Femoral-Access Robotic Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Final Results of the Multicenter PRECISION Registry) were presented today as a late-...

A rare, 540-year-old page from a medieval priests' handbook that dates back to the earliest days of book printing in England was discovered in a library at the University of Reading.

When Northwestern Engineering's Erik Luijten met Zbigniew Rozynek, they immediately became united by a mystery.

It's a material world, and an extremely versatile one at that, considering its most basic building blocks--atoms--can be connected together to form different structures that retain the same composition.

A $2.2 million, first-of-its kind randomized study found no differences between kids with asthma who received standard care based on National Institutes of Health guidelines compared with kids whose parents received stre...

Wearable device beams words using targeted sound waves to prevent anyone overhearing and could eventually be used by soldiers and divers

The past, present and future of drones are on display in "Drones: Is the Sky the Limit?", a new exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.

The page was ripped from a priests' handbook hundreds of years ago, and it could be one of England's oldest fragments of printed text.

The vocalisations of the voracious lionfish could help us keep tabs on this invasive species as it works its way up the US east coast

The habitat overlap of polar bears and their main prey, ringed seals, is disappearing and the bears are instead getting closer to nesting birds

Scientists have discovered a dual peptide called 'PGLP-1' that promotes insulin secretion and inhibits gluconeogenesis (a metabolic process that produces glucose).

The loss of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN has been linked to tumor growth and chemotherapy resistance in the almost invariably lethal brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme (GBM). Now, researchers have shown that one way ...

Americans and Norwegians with systemic sclerosis had higher levels of bacteria that can cause inflammation and lower levels of bacteria that are believed to protect against inflammation compared with healthy people.

A team of scientists is developing structures that can be used as scaffolding in the regeneration of bone defects and which also release growth factors.