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Most people know that regular exercise can keep a body looking and feeling young. What about the brain? Researchers were recently awarded a two-year grant to further examine the role physical activity plays on the brain.

2016 was a year of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. Top selling holiday gifts, Amazon Echo and Google Now, featured AI-powered voice recognition; IBM Watson diagnosed cancer; and Google DeepMind's system AlphaGo...

(Lund University) Researchers from Lund University in Sweden and from Fudan University in China have successfully designed a new structural organization using the promising solar cell material perovskite. The study shows...

To the best of anyone's knowledge, no one has had sex in space.Only one married couple have been on the same mission, the Americans Mark Lee and Jan Davis, and according to NASA, nothing happened. There being no privacy ...

First, diesel vehicles tainted their reputation with soot particles, then high nitric oxide emissions. So are owners of new gasoline cars environmentally friendly? Not always, says a new study scientists, some direct-inj...

A key regulator gene for the formation of cardiac valves has been identified by researchers, a process crucial to normal embryonic heart development.

Inflammation is the process by which the body responds to injury or infection but when this process becomes out of control it can cause disease. Researchers have shed light on a key aspect of the process. Their findings ...

Even among non-dependent cocaine users, cues associated with consumption of the drug lead to dopamine release in an area of the brain thought to promote compulsive use, according to researchers.

A study has found that abnormal proteins found in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases share a similar ability to cause damage when they invade brain cells. The finding suggests that an effective treatment ...

While doctors use X-rays to see the broken bones inside our bodies, scientists have developed a new X-ray technique to see inside continuously packed nanoparticles, also known as grains, to examine deformations and dislo...

The robots are coming. Actually, they're already here. Machines are learning to do tasks they've never done before, from locating and retrieving goods from a shelf to driving cars to performing surgery. In manufacturing ...

Newly proposed world heritage sites in Argentina, China and West Africa could safeguard threatened and endemic species such as elephants and snow leopards

Protons are colliding once again in the Large Hadron Collider. This morning at CERN, operators nudged two high-energy beams of protons into a collision course inside the world's largest and most energetic particle accele...

Flatworms regenerate lost body parts, but change the current in their cells and they can regrow the wrong thing, hinting at electricity's role in body plans

Researchers invented a Compton camera of 580g which visualizes gamma rays of arbitrary energies, and succeeded in achieving a high-resolution, multicolor 3-D molecular image of a live mouse administered with three differ...

A study has made a breakthrough in the understanding of how different genetic mutations cause acute myeloid leukemia.

Among patients with uncomplicated cellulitis, the use of an antibiotic regimen with activity against MRSA did not result in higher rates of clinical resolution compared to an antibiotic lacking MRSA activity; however, ce...

A new study may have identified the link that explains years of conflicting research over a mitochondrial gene and the risk for Alzheimer's disease. Researchers found a dramatic difference in the gene's impact on memory,...

Patients admitted to major teaching hospitals are less likely to die compared with patients admitted to minor teaching or non-teaching hospitals, according to a large national study.

Scientists have used a drug being developed to fight solid tumors to restore normal metabolism in flu-infected cells and reduce viral production without the threat of drug resistance.

Scientists have discovered a dietary strategy that may address obesity by reducing endotoxemia, a major contributor to chronic, low-grade inflammation (CLGI). The researchers uncovered an interaction between dietary caps...

It may be surprising to learn that much remains unknown about radiation's effects on materials. To find answers, researchers are developing techniques to explore the microstructural evolution and degradation of materials...