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Patients with an inherited form of colon cancer harbor two bacterial species that collaborate to encourage development of the disease, and the same species have been found in people who develop a sporadic form of colon c...

Physicists have designed a new method for transmitting big quantum data across long distances that requires far fewer resources than previous methods, bringing the implementation of long-distance big quantum data transmi...

As black holes evaporate, they release particles that may carry more information than we thought, so black holes may not break the laws of physics after all

Researchers analyzed blood samples from nearly 10,000 people to find that genetic markers in the gene responsible for keeping telomeres (tips of chromosomes) youthfully longer, did not translate into a younger biologic a...

In general, the term 'medical futility' applies when, based on data and professional experience, no further treatments, procedures or tests will provide benefit and may, in fact, be more burdensome and create undue suffe...

In the first test of detailed consumer-buying habits by categories at more than one chain store selling groceries, a team of business school researchers found that shoppers weren't monogamist or bigamist but rather polyg...

A new study reveals people who strongly believe in conspiracy theories are more likely to hold anti-vaccine attitudes.

The most comprehensive genetic study of malaria parasites in Southeast Asia has shown that resistance to antimalarial drugs was under-reported for years in Cambodia. Researchers have shown that the parasites developed mu...

Crash diets can cause a transient deterioration in heart function, according to new research. Patients with heart disease should seek medical advice before adopting a very low calorie diet.

Low muscle strength during the later teen years has been identified as a risk factor for much later onset of the neurological disease known as ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A study also links low blood counts at...

How does psychological stress translate into physical health effects? A key piece of the puzzle may be found in specialized cellular structures known as mitochondria, according to a pair of new articles.

A single dose of primaquine is thought to stop people with P. falciparum malaria infecting mosquitoes, which could help bring down malaria transmission. Recent data questions the practice.

Researchers question the ethical implications of using neuroscience techniques for legal cases.

A new study in Neurology reports balance and eye movement exercises may help people with MS to improve their balance problems and fatigue.

You've got an ancient virus in your brain. In fact, you've got an ancient virus at the very root of your conscious thought.

A patient known as "tree man" underwent extensive surgeries to remove wood-like warts from his hands and feet; but now he says the unusual growths are starting to come back.

In the summer of 1935, the physicists Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrödinger engaged in a rich, multifaceted and sometimes fretful correspondence about the implications of the new theory of quantum mechanics. The focus o...

We are pouring carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, heating the planet, but some plants are using the excess carbon dioxide to make more flowers

A special program that involves balance and eye movement exercises may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS) with their balance problems and fatigue, according to a new study.

An engineer can locate the brain's zone that creates seizures in record time -- one hour rather than the typical ten days. The new method potentially reduces complications, time and money.

Microtubules (roads made of proteins) extend throughout a cell for motor proteins (carriers) to deliver neuronal cargo packed with many kinds of materials required for life activity.

For a tumour to grow, it must develop blood vessels that supply nutrients and oxygen. Preventing tumor vascularization is therefore an interesting anti-tumor therapy that has been explored over the last ten years. But ho...