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Men who are sexually coercive tend to share certain traits.

Just a few minutes of microgravity is enough to change your brain. This suggests space tourists and long-haul astronauts may need to take precautions to think straight

Scientists from Stony Brook University have used a novel technique at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at Brookhaven National L...

New data from a Phase I clinical trial shows more than a quarter of patients with recurrent high-grade glioma, a form of brain cancer, were alive more than three years after treatment.

New research findings offer a promising target for future therapies that could potentially root out even the well-hidden metastatic lesions that make pancreatic cancer so deadly.

At its most basic level, a random laser is precisely what its name implies; random. It's random in the spectrum of light it produces and in the way that light is emitted, making what could be an extremely versatile laser...

Researchers have designed a novel protein-sugar vaccine candidate that, in an animal model, stimulated an immune response against sugars that form a protective shield around HIV. The molecule could one day become part of...

Researchers report that the Zika virus is transmitted from mother to fetus by infected cells that, ironically, will later develop into the brain's first and primary form of defense against invasive pathogens.

Researchers have studied how high-intensity interval training (HIIT) alters the brain's glucose metabolism in physically inactive insulin resistant people. Only two weeks of HIIT training reduced glucose metabolism in al...

For older adults, dry mouth can be a common side effect of prescribed medications. However, there's much we don't understand about the connection between medications and dry mouth in older adults. Recently, researchers e...

Researchers have discerned that different tissue functions arise from a core biological machinery that is largely shared across tissues, rather than from their own individual regulators.

When faced with a rival, some female dark-eyed juncos now sing just like males to defend their mates and territories

Ten million years ago a bear similar to modern giant pandas lived in what is now Hungary, suggesting the earliest pandas really came from Europe, not China

Injuries from wild animals are relatively uncommon, with a risk of unusual infections and other potentially severe complications.

When pistol shrimp snap their one huge claw shut, the resulting shock wave can stun their foes - now we have seen just how this weapon works

One of the weirdest comets we've seen formed from tiny pebbles that trace back to the start of our solar system - which may tell us more about how planets are made

Protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neurodegenerative diseases. Even in normal cells, such deposits can accumulate in mitochondria, blocking energy production, but a newly described quality control system can mitig...

More than 1,000 years ago, a woman living in the British Isles became horribly disfigured after catching leprosy from an unlikely source: a squirrel, according to a new study.

Some people are afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robots might take over the world, enslaving humanity--or perhaps exterminating us. These people, including tech-industry billionaire Elon Musk and eminen...

A new study shows that bacteria need the resistance to pilus retraction that occurs upon contact with a surface in order to sense surfaces and excrete the glue that makes them firmly adhere.

Cancer cells can reactivate a cellular process that is an essential part of embryonic development. This allows them to leave the primary tumor, penetrate the surrounding tissue and form metastases in peripheral organs. R...

Researchers have patented an innovative formulation based on nanotechnology, which is designed to relieve chronic neuropathic pain.