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Researchers have reported an approach to photoacoustic imaging that offers vastly improved resolution, setting the stage for detailed in vivo imaging of deep tissue. The technique is based on computational improvements, ...

Six million years ago, the shallow swamps of what's now southern China may have been dominated by massive, 110-lb. (50 kilograms) otters with a bite so strong it could crush the bones of small mammals.

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has discovered and described the existence of a unique disordered electron spin state in a metal that may provide a unique pathway to finding and studying frustrated magnet...

Cholera has repeatedly traveled out of Asia to cause epidemics in Africa and Latin America, an international research team has found. Researchers studied outbreaks in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean from the last...

A revolutionary new technique to create radioactive molecules has the potential to bring new medicines to patients much faster than before -- using light. While the previous approach took months, the new photocatalytic p...

International support for measures to prevent neglected tropical diseases has resulted in public health gains, but eliminating these debilitating conditions will require significant investments in basic research, a new a...

A protein secreted by cells infected with dengue virus can cause dangerous leakage of fluid from blood vessels, and new research supports a primary underlying mechanism: disruption of a molecular barrier that lines the v...

Adoptive cell therapy for cancer involves harvesting T cells from a patient and expanding and sometimes modifying them in the laboratory before reinfusion. It has been challenging to create T cells that are both potent a...

In an analysis of the impact of parity laws, researchers report modest improvements in costs for many patients. However, patients who were already paying the most for their medications, saw their monthly costs go up.

Depletion of a fatty molecule in human blood propels malaria parasites to stop replicating and causing illness in people and instead to jump ship to mosquitoes to continue the transmission cycle, according to a new study...

By teaching patients better strategies for coping with chronic pain, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a valuable treatment alternative for the millions of Americans taking opioids for noncancer pain, according to an...

Rift Valley fever virus is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be fatal in humans. Scientists have characterized the mechanism used by the virus to insert one of its envelope proteins into the h...

Researchers have used high-powered microscopy and rheometry -- the measurement of how materials become deformed in response to applied force -- to view the blood clotting process in real time and at the cellular level. T...

With a scarcity of lungs available for transplantation, the use of lungs from donors older than age 60 has been shown to achieve reasonable outcomes and should be considered as a viable option, according to new research.

The vaccine that protects against cancer-causing types of human papillomavirus (HPV) also prevents an uncommon but incurable childhood respiratory disease, according to a new study.

After three years of improvement, the well-being of Americans ticked downward in 2017, according to a new poll, though some demographics were spared.

The age of dinosaurs met an unlikely end -- because had the cosmic impact that doomed it hit just about anywhere else on the planet, the "terrible lizards" might still roam the Earth, a new study finds.

Sleazy scandals show the link between power and bad behaviour. To stop people at the top getting away with it, we need much more scrutiny, says James Bloodworth

Fantastical designs elevate physics in works by Fermilab's first artist. Planning to start up a particle physics lab? Better hire an artist. That was Robert R. Wilson's thought in the 1960s, when he began forming what wo...

The collision that produced recent gravitational waves may have left behind the biggest neutron star ever seen. But it might have collapsed into a black hole

Scientists created fully functional skin for a 7-year-old boy with a genetic skin disease. Here's how they accomplished the medical feat.

Do you want to live to be 100? If your immediate answer was yes, here's a follow-up question: if you could live to 100, what conditions would you want to accompany your longevity? You would probably want your healthspan ...