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Con artistry is one of the world's oldest and most innovative professions, and it may soon have a new target. Research suggests artificial intelligence may be uniquely susceptible to tricksters, and as its influence in t...

An update to a behavioral economics study on clinicians' prescriptions of antibiotics showed that the clinicians may, without long-term interventions, return to bad prescription habits.

By researching deadly cone snail venom, researchers hope to find solutions to tough medical problems and diseases.

Players kneeling during the national anthem is the most recent NFL controversy, but certainly not the first nor the biggest. Concussion has dogged the NFL since the 1990s, and its initial response -- avoidance and superf...

Researchers have known for decades that fevers in the first trimester of pregnancy increase risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as cleft lip or palate. Exactly how this happens is unclear. Scientists ...

Among all the bad things that can happen to the brain when it is severely jolted - in a car accident, for example - one of the most common and worrisome is axon damage. Axons are the long stalks that grow out of the bodi...

Daily exposure to bright white light at midday significantly decreased symptoms of depression and increased functioning in people with bipolar disorder, a recent study found. More than 68 percent of patients who received...

Developmental biologists have for the first time described how two transcription factors that are 'absolutely essential for human development' are regulated by a cell surface metalloprotease known as ADAM13. The discover...

Children with attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) are likely to also have trouble with touch (tactile) processing. A new study finds that children with ADHD fare worse on several tests of tactile functioning, i...

Until recently, microbiology has been a science done largely in petri dishes, looking at a few million copies of one organism and asking simple questions trying to suss out how it'll behave in the wider world. What does ...

Two studies document how a new advanced genetic sequencing approach can help thwart the growing worldwide threat posed by drug-resistant mutations of tuberculosis (TB). The threat of TB is increasing in some places as mu...

Children with autism are more likely to show severe social symptoms if their mother had chronic asthma or allergies while pregnant, a new study reveals.

While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, its presence doesn't mean a person will develop dementia. A new study has found a clinically useful way to predict who won't develop Alzheimer's disease, base...

A cost-effective technology has been developed to produce large quantities of human brain cells in two simple steps. By surmounting major challenges in human neuron-based drug discovery, researchers believe this techniqu...

Environmental toxicants may influence inflammation-promoted chronic disease susceptibility during early life, emerging evidence from a research study in rabbits suggests. BPA exposure just before or after birth leads to ...

Even as the power of our modern computers grows exponentially, biological systems--like our brains--remain the ultimate learning machines. By finding materials that act in ways similar to the mechanisms that biology uses...

Cells lining blood vessels in the lungs that are exposed to bacterial toxins don't die easy, according to a new study. When these blood vessel cells come into contact with bacterial toxins called lipopolysaccharides, an ...

In India, the sale of antibiotics requiring the tightest control and regulation is rising the fastest, according to a new analysis. The correspondence highlights serious hurdles for controlling antimicrobial resistance i...

The brain is composed of distinct regions that differ in their functional roles and cellular architecture. It remains largely unknown to what extent a single type in different brain regions displays similarity in gene ex...

Blow into the tube, please. In the future, the procedure will not just be used by police checking for alcohol intoxication, but also for testing the condition of athletes and for people who want to lose that extra bit of...

A DNA variant -- located in the DNMT3B gene and commonly found in people of European and African descent -- increases the likelihood of developing nicotine dependence, smoking heavily, and developing lung cancer, accordi...

When it comes to birth control, many males turn to two options: condoms or vasectomies. While the two choices are effective, both methods merely focus on blocking the transportation of sperm.