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The flu is wreaking havoc globally this year. While the U.S. has made huge strides in preparing for and treating the flu, we have a long way to go as we prepare for the next pandemic.

In an interview at Singularity University's Exponential Medicine in San Diego, Leslie Saxon, founder and executive director of the USC Center for Body Computing, spoke about the Virtual Care Clinic her team is building. ...

Nuclear physicists are using the nation's most powerful supercomputer, Titan, at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility to study particle interactions important to energy production in the sun and stars and to prope...

A new study from JHU researchers finds the brain can assign the value to an object in less than a tenth of a second; roughly the same amount of time as it takes to recognize an object.

Two new studies shed light on the processes that underlie the integration and storage of sensory information.

When it comes to talent, versatility and the power to change the world, which atomic particle is the champ? Read what our four contenders have to say--then you decide. Physics fans, are you ready to rumble? Of course you...

Researchers have identified a range of psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia and autism, that share physical characteristics at the molecular level. Specifically, the study identifies common patterns of neural g...

Scientists have modified a test for early diagnosis of prion diseases with the goal of improving early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies. The group tested cerebral spinal fluid samples from p...

It's well known that the human body functions on a 24-hour schedule. The up-and-down daily cycles of a long-studied clock protein called Rev-erb coordinates the ebb and flow of gene expression by tightening and loosening...

Researchers used 3-D imaging with molecular testing to uncover new insight into the earliest stages of mammalian pregnancy -- offering clues to unsolved questions in pregnancy. The scientists demonstrate in mice that gla...

Vanderbilt researchers have mapped a signaling system in the brain that appears to be linked to autism.

If gravitational waves - ripples in space time - have a handedness, primordial particles could interact with them to form a dark matter superfluid that spreads through the cosmos

New Horizons is one of the furthest spacecraft from Earth. It sent back pictures of two objects in the Kuiper belt, the most distant photographs ever taken

Zebra finches sing during the day, and at night while they sleep their vocal organs act out the motions of singing, a bit like a sleepwalking person

We've never had to deflect an incoming asteroid before it hits Earth, so how do we know the best way to do it? An algorithm says nuclear weapons are the most effective

Fatigue in cancer survivors is significantly reduced by placebo pill, even when it is known it is a fake pill.

New research reports several cases of shingles that developed at the original vaccination site in healthy children after they were immunized against chicken pox. Most of these cases were initially misdiagnosed as other s...

Lay people tend to think that insomnia is usually a symptom of something else, like stress, a bad diet or a sedentary lifestyle, but this may not be true at all. It is possible that insomnia itself causes many of the con...

Scientists have successfully produced human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce urine, a first for medical science. The study signifies a significant milestone in the development of treatment ...

Routine body CT scans may help clinicians estimate an individual's risk of future osteoporotic fracture, according to new study.

A new study suggests that pets provide benefits to those with mental health conditions.

Toads might want to be careful what meal they catch with their sticky, pink tongues. It could be a toxic beetle that makes them throw up ... and then scurries away to tell the tale, a new study from Japan finds.