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Living in space sounds pretty cool. Unfortunately, our bodies haven't evolved to live in space without suffering harm. You may wonder, "How bad could it really be?" In space, changes in gravity cause blood to rush to you...

(Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)) Cristina Ramos Almeida, researcher at the IAC, and Claudio Ricci, from the Institute of Astronomy of the Universidad Católica de Chile, publish a review in Nature Astronomy ...

Stopping long-term, low-dose aspirin therapy may increase your risk of suffering a cardiovascular event, research indicates. Risk increases shortly after stopping and does not appear to diminish over time.

Fingerprints have to soften a bit before they can fully make contact with glass surfaces, which could foil plans for next-generation touchscreens

A novel five-year study highlights importance of behaviors such as coffee drinking and not smoking on health and survival of HIV-infected patients, report investigators.

New research by a team of health experts has found evidence that being in a positive mood on the day of your flu jab can increase its protective effect.

After four years of lab testing and complex neuro-decoding, a research team has struck a major breakthrough that could open the floodgates for research into the anterior cingulate cortex, or ACC, and how human brains lea...

Two drugs, already approved for safe use in people, may be able to improve therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), a blood cancer that affects myeloid cells, according to new results.

Freshwater planarians, found around the world and commonly known as "flatworms," are famous for their regenerative prowess. Through a process called "fission," planarians can reproduce asexually by simply tearing themsel...

Room temperature superconductors would be a game-changer in our energy-hungry world. Even as we integrate alternative energy sources into the electric grid, create more energy efficient devices, and reduce demand where w...

Researchers have found that the host's susceptibility to develop malaria depends on his or her metabolic state, which can be easily manipulated through external stimuli such as dietary patterns.

Scientists have used a genetic engineering technique for the first time to create brain cells from the blood cells of individuals in a three-generation family with Tourette syndrome to help determine what causes the dise...

Biologic joint restoration using donor tissue instead of traditional metal and plastic may be an option for active patients with joint defects. Researchers have found in a group of patients that treating donor grafts wit...

A study analyzing crime data in Philadelphia for 10 years found that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct are higher when the weather is warmer and more pleasant, even rising sharply during warmer-than-typical w...

Researchers have developed a technique to produce synthetic steroids that could pave the way for a cascade of new drug discoveries, significantly reducing the expense and time needed to develop therapeutics from an under...

A 35-year-old man who had been in a vegetative state for 15 years after a car accident has shown signs of consciousness after neurosurgeons implanted a vagus nerve stimulator into his chest. The findings show that vagus ...

By taking videos of a tiny beating zebrafish heart as it reconstructs its covering in a petri dish, scientists have captured unexpected dynamics of cells involved in tissue regeneration. They found that the depleted hear...

The same countries hard hit by Zika virus -- which can cause brain damage in babies infected before birth -- are also home to dengue virus. Researchers now report that they have found an antibody that protects against bo...

Mice exposed to scents of mint or fresh cut grass before and shortly after birth show increased responses in a specific population of odor-processing neurons to a variety of odors, according to new research. The study de...

Having one child with autism is a well-known risk factor for having another one with the same disorder, but whether and how a sibling's gender influences this risk has remained largely unknown. Now new research has, for ...

As the NASA Curiosity rover roams the surface of Mars, its ChemCam captures the chemical makeup of its surroundings with a specially designed laser system. It is the most powerful laser to operate on the surface of anoth...

Angela Sirigu and her team stimulated the brain of a man who fell into a vegetative state after a car crash 2001. Now he can move his eyes and listen to music