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Pilot study finds smokers who are willing to use e-cigarettes tend to smoke less and have increased quit attempts, according to new research.

We all have scars, and each one tells a story. Tales of tomfoolery, tales of haphazardness, or in my case, tales of stupidity. Whether the cause of your scar was a push-bike accident, a lack of concentration while cuttin...

Pop! goes the New Year's corks--and the bubbles that result might point to how high-quality your champagne is, researchers say.

UCLA researchers reveal the mechanism behind how estrogen can protect central nervous system damage in people with MS. The researchers report estrogen treatments have positive effects on immune cells in the brain and oli...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 12,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. One of the most common treatments for cervical cancer is radiatio...

A new study reveals selenium is essential for the postnatal development of a specific type of interneuron.

The "vast majority" of people commenting, sharing and liking anti-vaccination information on Facebook are women, a new study finds.

"The Six Ds are a chain reaction of technological progression, a road map of rapid development that always leads to enormous upheaval and opportunity." -Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Bold We live in incredible times...

This New Year's Day will bring a "Full Wolf Moon," the biggest of the supermoons expected in 2018.

The incurable Ebola virus has long been feared due to its high mortality rate and danger of infection. Now researchers have succeeded in inhibiting the virus in cell cultures. The researchers hope to be able to continue ...

Human beings seem to be obsessed with the purity of water. But the reality is, totally pure water doesn't exist.

From drinking clear drinks to taking ancient herbal remedies, there are several ways to avoid a hangover after New Year's revelry.

The mere thought of holiday traditions brings smiles to most people's faces and elicits feelings of sweet anticipation and nostalgia. We can almost smell those candles, taste those special meals, hear those familiar song...

Fat isn't all bad - it stores powerful immune cells, and seems to boost their ability to defend the body from dangerous infections

Google Earth is an amazing trove of visuals from all over the planet, and new strange things turn up in it all the time. Here are the best from 2017.

(Science China Press) The poor cycling stability and low rate performance become the big bottleneck of high specific capacity Li-rich layered oxide materials. Recently, a research team led by Prof. L. Q. Mai at Wuhan Uni...

(American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) Recent findings by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis may aid in the development of therapies to treat parasitic infections, including malaria, and...

In our last post, we introduced the pond--the surface of a body of water serving as an intriguing analogy for spacetime--with waves as a transient expression of energy, much like photons or gravitational waves, and eddie...

Nucleic acid sequencing methods, which determine the order of nucleotides in DNA, are rapidly progressing. These processes yield large quantities of sequence data that helps researchers understand organism function. Sequ...

Ophthalmologists' use of electronic health records (EHR) systems for storing and accessing patients' medical histories more than doubled between 2006 and 2016, while their perceptions of financial and clinical productivi...