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Researchers from Empa have developed a flexible material that generates electricity when stressed. In future, it might be used as a sensor, integrated into clothing or even implanted in the human body, for instance, to p...

Women at opposite extremes of the weight spectrum have low levels of the neuroactive steroid allopregnanolone, according to new research.

In a new study, researchers have determined that a declining sense of smell may be able to identify patients with mild cognitive impairment that could respond to certain drugs used to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Researchers have developed a melanin-enhanced cancer immunotherapy technique that can also serve as a vaccine, based on early experiments done in a mouse model. The technique is applied via a transdermal patch.

We thought walking in lock step made bridges sway, like London's Millennium Bridge when it opened. But it turns out crowd size matters more than rhythm

The principles of the gene network for colon tumorigenesis have been identified. The principles will be used to find the molecular target for effective anti-cancer drugs in the future. Further, this research gained atten...

Recalling the names of old classmates 50 years after graduation or of favorite childhood television series illustrates the amazing abilities of human memory. Emotion and repeated exposure are both known to play a role in...

If you were sitting in the upper rows of an ancient Greek amphitheater, could you have heard the actors sigh or strike a match?

Many giant mammals in the Americas have died out but it has been hard to say whether humans or natural events were responsible. Now, in the Caribbean at least, we know

A new study has identified a novel mechanism by which tumors of the aggressive skin cancer melanoma can resist cancer immunotherapy.

A research team has identified the pathological mechanism for a certain type of autism and intellectual disability by creating a genetically modified mouse. They are hopeful it could eventually lead to a therapeutic fix.

Lasers that generate plasma can provide insight into bursts of subatomic particles that occur in deep space, scientists have found. Such findings could help scientists understand cosmic rays, solar flares and solar erupt...

Chinese Medicine scholars have succeeded in developing a novel targeted delivery system for CRISPR/Cas9 to achieve therapeutic genome editing of VEGFA in osteosarcoma (OS).

Our cells move energy and matter to the places it is needed. But how do they do this in real time, and seen from the perspective of a single molecule? Scientists have successfully uncovered new basic insights into this i...

Researchers say that blue light accelerates the relaxation process after acute psychosocial stress such as arguing with a friend or when someone pressures you to quickly finish some task.

Insects have been a valuable source of nutritional protein for centuries, as both food and feed. The challenge now is to broaden their appeal, safely and sustainably.

Nicobar long-tailed macaques have learned to use an array of tools, from wrapping prickly food in leaves to avoid getting hurt, to using bird feathers to floss their teeth

To Bob Hariri, the body is a machine. Hariri is a surgeon, entrepreneur, and biomedical scientist. But perhaps it's his time flying jets that most strongly lends itself to such thinking. "I've been flying longer than any...

IBM has announced a milestone in its race against Google and other big tech firms to build a powerful quantum computer.

Recently, I interviewed my friend Ray Kurzweil at the Googleplex for a 90-minute webinar on disruptive and dangerous ideas, a prelude to my fireside chat with Ray at Abundance 360 this January. Ray is my friend and cofou...

Neptune's moons are unlike anything in the solar system, thanks to Triton barrelling in and laying waste to the moons that were there before it

A seemingly paradoxical prediction in physics has now been confirmed in an experiment: No matter whether an object is opaque or transparent, the average length of the light's paths through the object is always the same.