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Last month, I attended the first annual Unintended Consequences of Technology (or UCOT) in San Francisco. I can't say enough about the high quality of the content or the importance and timeliness of the topics discussed....

Machine learning can be used to analyze electronic health records and predict the risk of emergency hospital admissions, a new study has found.

General relativity has survived its latest test after observations of a violent collision between neutron stars tallied perfectly with Einstein's theory

New research challenges the idea that a child's weight largely reflects the way their parents feed them. Instead, parents appear to adopt feeding styles in response to their children's natural body weight, which is large...

A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed, offering a manufacturing standardization process which may have therapeutic applications and cli...

Biologists say the hungrier ticks are, the harder they try to find you or other hosts. The findings could have implications for the spread of tick-borne disease such as Lyme or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.

A weapons of Staphylococcus aureus is ?-toxin, which destroys host cells by forming pores in their membranes. Researchers at UNIGE have identified the mechanism that allows these pores to be harmful. They uncover how pro...

Scientists are studying a guppy-sized, blind, translucent fish that lives in the cave systems of northern Mexico to figure out why some animals can regenerate their hearts, while others just scar.

Scientists have developed a 'contact lens' patch with microneedles that could be a painless and efficient alternative to current methods of treating eye diseases such as glaucoma. Patients are unable to keep up with the ...

By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) are typically discovered, death is looming and inevitable. In a new study, researchers report finding tell-tale evidence of the condition's infectious age...

Researchers report half of suicidal teens in a hospital sample say the controversial TV show contributed to their suicidal symptoms.

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In addition to having implications for personal health, sugar sweetened drinks may have addictive properties, researchers report. The study found when abstaining from drinking sweetened drinks, people who consume them of...

An aquaponic system is an example of an integrated farming method in which the waste byproduct from one production process, like raising fish and other seafood, serves as a nutrient for another part of the system--like g...

General relativity has survived its latest test after observations of a violent collision between neutron stars tallied perfectly with Einstein's theory

Why do American presidents pardon Thanksgiving turkeys?

Researchers report there are two distinct ways in which we make temporal predictions, and these rely on different parts of the brain. The findings offer a new perspective on how humans calculate when to make a move.

Worldwide, preterm birth is a leading cause of death for children under five-years-old. A new algorithm combined with a handheld, smartphone-based device could aid health care workers in remote locations to estimate degr...

Worst. Year. EVER.

What is happening when something as lovely as ice cream causes such awful pain?

As winter approaches in the northern hemisphere, hundreds of scientists are heading to Antarctica to study the solar system's past and predict Earth's future

Aspirin and Omega-3 both help the heart -- but maybe not together