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After five years of work, EPFL's physicists, together with some 800 international researchers involved in the CERN's LHCb project, have just taken an important step by building a new detector--a scintillating fiber track...

The technology behind bitcoin could foster a new form of liquid democracy in which voters can influence politics with just the tap of an app

On a gray, drizzling winter day in 1896, within the vine-carpeted walls of Toynbee Hall, the London press witnessed what seemed like an acoustic miracle. Spread out on a table was a curious modular device. It had a tower...

Researchers produced a neutron beam at the China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) for the first time on August 28. The achievement is a milestone for the CSNS project as it marks the completion of main construction and t...

Again and again, it's the rare among humans that help the rest of us. The exploration of human genetics is revealing new targets to combat heart disease among atypical variants. Mutations in genes that play a role in hea...

An antimicrobial compound made by honeybees could become the basis for new antibiotics, according to new research.

A new study focused on men with high levels of 'bad' cholesterol and no other risk factors or signs of heart disease.

Researchers show that giving mice a form of the fatty acid-derived bioactive molecule called lipoxin improved heart function after a heart attack, as the lipoxin prompted early activation of the resolving phase of the im...

Hospital patients' satisfaction with pain management is linked to nurse staffing, according to an article authored by nurse researchers from the Connell School of Nursing at Boston College and published in the journal Pa...

A simple scratch-and-sniff test could predict Parkinson's disease even earlier than previously thought, new research demonstrates. The test could potentially identify certain people who are at an increased risk of develo...

MODERN artificial intelligence is much feted. But its talents boil down to a superhuman ability to spot patterns in large volumes of data. Facebook has used this ability to produce maps of poor regions in unprecedented d...

What the genes predicted, and what we got CRAIG VENTER, a biologist and boss of Human Longevity, a San Diego-based company that is building the world's largest genomic database, is something of a rebel. In the late 1990s...

Listening to upbeat music has been found to boost people's creativity - but silence is best for when you're trying to decide on a solution for a problem

A bacteria that is a leading cause of death worldwide from hospital acquired infections following antibiotic treatment looks set to be brought down through its own sibling rivalry.

A team of scientists and engineers has invented a powerful tool that rapidly and accurately identifies cancerous tissue during surgery, delivering results in about 10 seconds. The MasSpec Pen is an innovative handheld in...

A newly discovered genetic mutation triggers erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP). This discovery illuminates a novel biological mechanism potentially responsible for stories of 'vampires' and identifies a potential thera...

Sleep may influence an eyewitness's ability to correctly pick a guilty person out of a police lineup, indicates a new study.

The strict dividing line between clothes for boys and girls is just another way we shape young minds and society for the worse. Good riddance, says Lara Williams

Cervical cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide, with almost 300,000 deaths occurring each year. More than 80 percent of these deaths occur in developing nations. The advent of human pap...

Females tend to report more symptoms -- and more severe ones -- and may also take longer to recover from brain injuries than their male counterparts.

A synthetic version of low molecular weight heparin is poised for clinical trials and development as a drug for patients with clotting disorders, and those undergoing procedures such as kidney dialysis, heart bypass surg...

The taller you are, the more likely you may be to develop blood clots in the veins, according to new research.