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An enduring problem with self-driving cars has been how to program them to make ethical decisions in unavoidable crashes. A new study has found it's actually surprisingly easy to model how humans make them, opening a pot...

A scientist's dream of 3-D projections like those he saw years ago in a Star Wars movie has led to new technology for making animated 3-D table-top objects by structuring light.

The way certain hospital labor and delivery units are managed may put healthy women at greater risk for cesarean deliveries and hemorrhage, according to a new American study.

For the subset of women with BRCA mutations who have already had ovarian cancer, risk-reducing mastectomy might not be worth the price tag. New research finds that for many women in this unique group, prophylactic mastec...

A preclinical report demonstrates that entinostat, Syndax's oral, Class-I histone deacetylase inhibitor, enhances the antitumor effect of PD-1 (programmed death receptor-1) blockade through the inhibition of myeloid deri...

To paraphrase the classic poem, no hair is an island entire of itself. Instead, scientists have discovered that all hairs can communicate with each other and grow in coordination across the entire body. This is regulated...

A widely used screening tool deployed in the early phases of drug discovery to weed out undesirable compounds is wrong so often it can't be trusted on its own, according to scientists.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a serious public health threat contributing to mortality and morbidity around the world, according to two new studies.

An enzyme present in the cornea that becomes dramatically upregulated and triggers inflammation during and even after a herpes virus infection has cleared has now been identified by researchers.

Sometimes, liquid drops don't drop. Instead, they climb. Using computer simulations, researchers have now shown how to induce droplets to climb stairs all by themselves.

Graphene is one of the lightest, strongest, and highest-conductivity materials in existence. Since it was introduced to the world in 2004, many scientists have focused on understanding and harnessing the incredible poten...

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the most frequently used psychological intervention for people with chronic pain, and new approaches for improving CBT outcomes may be found in the psychological flexibility model an...

Heart disease is the number one killer of women. However, most women are not treated for the disease until they in their 50s and 60s.

While the Zika virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes, research has shown that the disease can affect semen and sperm and can therefore be spread through sexual intercourse.

Contrary to popular belief, medical marijuana dispensaries (MMDs) reduce crime in their immediate areas, suggests a new report.

When mice that are genetically susceptible to developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) were given antibiotics during late pregnancy and the early nursing period, their offspring were more likely to develop an inflamma...

Bugs in your eyes may be a good thing. Resident microbes living on the eye are essential for immune responses that protect the eye from infection, new research shows. The study demonstrates the existence of a resident oc...

The surface of the eye is one of the most inhospitable environments for microbes in mammals because tears are loaded with anti-microbials. However, some microbes can live on this sparsely populated tissue and may play a ...

A meta-analysis investigates time perception and temporal information processing in patients with schizophrenia on the basis of 68 studies from the past 65 years.

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most significant global public health problems in many developing countries. Researchers have discovered a high prevalence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the East Africa nation du...

Some people experience intense aversion and anxiety when they see clusters of roughly circular shapes, such as the bubbles in a cup of coffee or the holes in a sponge. Now psychologists have found that the condition -- k...

The direct medical costs of falls in adults with a transfemoral amputation are described in a new article.