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Water droplets float in a hot pan because of the so-called Leidenfrost effect. Now, physicists have discovered a variation: the elastic Leidenfrost effect. It explains why hydrogel balls jump around on a hot plate making...

New results suggest free-floating giant planets are less common than previously believed, but hint at vast numbers of smaller castaway worlds --

University life often includes alcohol use, which can sometimes cause harm. Yet harm can also extend beyond the drinker, such as "secondhand harm" that is caused by intoxicated people: accidents or violence, interrupted ...

A new study explores outcomes for patients who continue receiving statins after experiencing an adverse reaction, finding that they had a lower risk of death and cardiovascular events.

A researcher says that Internet propaganda promoting bizarre and unscientific criticisms of statins has given these life-saving drugs a bad reputation.

Excessive and improper applications of insecticides and other agriculture chemicals in local fruit orchards may have triggered an outbreak of a deadly swelling of the brain known as acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) that...

For patients undergoing surgery to repair a bunion deformity of the foot, non-weight-bearing x rays taken immediately after surgery can provide a good estimate of the risk that the bunion will return over time, reports a...

A research team has successfully prevented mice from developing angiogenesis of the retina -- the sensory tissue at the back of the eye -- using gene-editing techniques with CRISPR-Cas9.

A possible approach to treat postpartum hemorrhage, the leading cause of perinatal maternal death around the world, is under investigation by researchers.

Black men who enrolled in a patient navigator program at local barbershops were twice as likely to get colorectal cancer screening, report investigators.

A unique and previously unidentified molecular mechanism has been discovered that maintains glioma stem cells, report investigators. They have tested it as a potential therapeutic target in glioblastoma, using a novel sm...

With obesity related illnesses a global pandemic, researchers propose using a blood thinner to target molecular drivers of chronic metabolic inflammation in people eating high-fat diets to limit weight gain and disease.

Just as parents are not the root of all their children's problems, a single gene mutation can't be blamed for complex brain disorders like autism, according to a neuroscientist. To help researchers see the big picture, r...

For decades, vaccine manufacturers have used chicken eggs to grow the flu virus strains included in the seasonal vaccine. But because these human strains frequently mutate to adapt to their new environment, the resulting...

Turbulence, the violently unruly disturbance of plasma, can prevent plasma from growing hot enough to fuel fusion reactions. Long a puzzling concern of researchers has been the impact on turbulence of atoms recycled from...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have significantly increased the temperature at which carbon-based materials act as superconductors, using a novel, boron-doped Q-carbon material.

EXPERIMENTS that go according to plan can be useful. But the biggest scientific advances often emerge from those that do not. Such is the case with a study just reported in theProceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

The raccoon that topples your trashcan and pillages your garden may leave more than just a mess. More likely than not, it also contaminates your yard with parasites -- most notably, raccoon roundworms (Baylisascaris proc...

An underwater robot captured images believed to be the first signs of melted nuclear reactor fuel that sank after the plant's 2011 failure

Swarms of gold nanobots with rotating arms powered by magnetic fields could swim through the human body and deliver medicine directly where it's needed

A fun experiment with hundreds of plastic ducks on a beach shows that AI trained on drone photos could seriously improve seabird colony counts

A well-structured water distribution and documentation process led to increased water intake at one hospital.