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About 2 million Americans are treated for hemorrhoids each year.

Our world is full of light, and we depend upon it to power life on our planet. So it is appropriate to honor three scientists who invented new ways of using light rays to explore our world. The 2018 Nobel Prize in physic...

Jane Hawking says the film got a lot of things wrong about her life with the renowned physicist.

Researchers shed light on how people decide whether certain behaviors are moral or immoral.

Researchers have created a new deep learning system that can determine if a news outlet is accurate or biased based on only 150 articles published. The algorithm can also detect the political leanings of a news site. Res...

A new study reveals receiving a hug on a day when you experience interpersonal conflict can be a buffer against negative mood and distress.

Researchers have developed a new machine learning algorithm that can make accurate predictions about cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer's. The algorithm, researchers say, may help doctors stream people onto a prevent...

Finding it difficult to quit smoking? Your genes may be to blame. Researchers discover genetic mutations play a key role in nicotine relapse.

The inability to alter intrinsic piezoelectric behavior in organic polymers hampers their application in flexible, wearable and biocompatible devices, according to researchers at Penn State and North Carolina State Unive...

Many cooks have experienced this--sprinkle a few drops of water on a searing hot skillet, and watch them roll around like a couple of glass beads. Scientists had previously thought that this phenomenon is solely due to t...

A new study reports on the detrimental impact childhood poverty has on cognition later in life. Researchers say those who grew up socially or economically disadvantaged are more likely to score lower on cognitive tests l...

You've probably seen them, perhaps on long roadtrips: wind turbines with enormous, hypnotic rolling blades, harnessing the clean power of wind for conversion into electric energy. What you may not know is that for the ex...

Researchers report pyramidal neurons in the basolateral amygdala help us to recognize and categorize foods.

A study has claimed that large-scale wind power in the US would cause significant warming, but this is misleading and could harm take-up of renewables

EARLY October is a nerve-racking period for the world's top scientists. Though few will admit it, many who have done important work hope at this time of the year for a phone call, often in the middle of the night, that w...

A dragonfish unveiled THE ocean is dark and full of terrors, and the black dragonfish is the darkest of them all. Its surface, new measurements reveal, is as black as the blackest material known--the result of an abyssal...

"DOG parks are Petri dishes for canine 'rape culture'," wrote Helen Wilson, of the Portland Ungendering Research Initiative, in her study published in May this year. Her write-up describes how gender interactions in dog ...

Researchers report an afternoon nap can help us to process unconscious information and enhance cognition.

A weird, brilliant blue creature with feathery-like strands is washing ashore onto the beaches of New Jersey.

Decades after chrytrid fungus began its deadly rampage through the world's frog populations, a community of tropical frogs has managed to adapt.

Researchers have developed a fundamentally new approach to a see-through display for augmented reality, or smart glasses. By projecting images from the glass directly onto the eye, the new design could one day make it po...

Spanish researchers have developed a quantum cryptography network integrated in a commercial optical network through technologies based on software defined networking (SDN), allowing for the implementation of quantum and...