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A list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, including Marie Curie, Roger Kornberg and Otto Hahn.

Frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) -- the most common dementia for people under age 60 -- inflicts a significantly higher economic burden on both patients and their caregivers, a new study shows. While the social and econ...

Women who develop high blood pressure in their 40s may be more likely to develop dementia years later, according to a study.

Researchers have discovered a promising alternative to open fetal surgery for spina bifida repair. The team has developed an alternative approach to current in utero treatment for spina bifida: a minimally-invasive repai...

A gene therapy to treat cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) -- a neurodegenerative disease that typically claims young boys' lives within 10 years of diagnosis -- effectively stabilized the disease's progression in 88 p...

Children of divorced parents are more likely to get divorced when compared to those who grew up in two-parent families -- and genetic factors are the primary explanation, according to a new study.

The most comprehensive study yet into how people respond to risk has found that there is a common factor that drives all types of risk-taking

Just like physical exercise, the kind of improvements you get with meditation depend on exactly how you train

Researchers have mainly focused on what happens after people lose one or two of their senses. However, we know that losing more than two senses occurs frequently for older adults. Until now, no studies have examined how ...

Meditation can have positive effects on our health and well-being. However it has been unclear which mental practice has which effect, and what the underlying processes are. Researchers have discovered that different tra...

Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat drug-resistant superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella, new research shows...

A "cocktail" of monoclonal antibodies prevented Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in primates, report researchers at conclusion of their report.

The majority of Dutch children who lost a parent to intimate partner homicide had already experienced violence, often without professional support.

The recent earthquake in Mexico City shows even the best tremor alarms sometimes only go off seconds before - but clever planning can mean those few seconds save many people

Companies like 23andMe that offer to reveal your genetic secrets from a spit test can also sell your data to drug developers for big sums

Physicist Erik Verlinde will discuss his and others’ groundbreaking gravitational theories during a live webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time --

The sun is an hour over the horizon. It's the first week of October in Maryland, and there's something uniquely enchanting in how the light catches the tips of the trees. What is it that makes this morning sunlight so sp...

Researchers found that in the model organism E. coli, the fidelity of transcribing DNA comes at the expense of DNA repair.

Stress -- defined broadly -- can have a profoundly deleterious effect on the human body. Even individual cells have their own way of dealing with environmental strains such as ultraviolet radiation from the sun or germs....

More than 20 years after scientists revealed that mutations in the BRCA1 gene predispose women to breast cancer, scientists have pinpointed the molecular mechanism that allows those mutations to wreak their havoc.

TORC1 is an enzyme complex that controls the normal growth of our cells; but, when too active, it can promote diseases such as cancer. A new study describes how sugar regulates the activity of TORC1, through a surprising...

New research uses UK Biobank data to reveal -- for the first time -- the direct damage that carrying extra weight has on the heart's weight and size, and implicates a range of other modifiable risk factors including high...