Science News

If non-conformists base their decisions on opposing the mainstream, why do they all look alike?

The world's largest sovereign wealth fund plans to sell its stocks in oil and gas exploration firms, which is the biggest divestment of its kind yet

Researchers have created a novel way to define individual protein associations in a quick, efficient, and informative way. These findings show how the topological scoring (TopS) algorithm, can -- by combining data sets -...

Eighty-six percent of individuals who entered HIV care soon after diagnosis maintained viral suppression after 48 weeks during a clinical trial. Participants in the clinical trial, called iENGAGE, achieved viral suppress...

New research shows that, in women who develop gestational diabetes (GDM) during pregnancy, the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the years following childbirth is doubled compared to women who do not develop GDM.

As if being picked on wasn't bad enough, victims of workplace mistreatment may also be seen as bullies themselves, even if they've never engaged in such behavior. Adding insult to injury, victims may even be seen by supe...

A new study reveals wide variations in how well or poorly people age. A 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people experience the health problems of a 65-year-old, according to a new...

Researchers have identified a gene that increases the risk for a severe and potentially life-threatening reaction to the commonly prescribed antibiotic vancomycin.

Researchers have developed a new molecular visualisation method, RNA-guided endonuclease -- in situ labelling (RGEN-ISL) for the CRISPR/Cas9-mediated labelling of genomic sequences in nuclei and chromosomes.

Researchers confirm the lower risk of breast cancer from multiple pregnancies and from breast feeding seen in average risk women extends to those at the highest risk of breast cancer, according to the largest prospective...

An annual influenza season forecasting challenge issued by the US Centers for Disease Control provides unique insight into epidemic forecasting, according to a new study.

New details about the role of zinc in our immune system could help the development of new non-antibiotic treatment strategies for bacterial diseases, such as urinary tract infections (UTIs). UTIs are one of the most comm...

Researchers have developed a way to discover elusive cancer-promoting genes, already identifying one that appears to promote aggressive breast cancers. The team developed a statistical approach to reveal many previously ...

Peroxisomes are cell organelles that carry out a number of functions, including the degradation of cytotoxins. For this purpose, they require enzymes that have to be transported into peroxisomes via complicated machinery...

Sleep learning, the way people commonly think of it, is almost certainly impossible. But researchers are discovering types of learning that occur during sleep, with exciting applications.

The proposed successor to the LHC would try to solve some of physics’s biggest mysteries by slamming matter into antimatter head-on to generate the famed Higgs boson --

Like a rainbow, the anus of a comb jelly is a fleeting thing.

A listener's engagement decreases with repetition of music, but only for familiar music pieces. However, unfamiliar musical styles can sustain an audience's interest, in particular for individuals with some musical train...

Brazilian scientists produce brain organoids with primitive eyes using computational fluid dynamics.

Amateur ornithologists who describe themselves as experts are far more likely to mistake common British birds for obscure rarities never seen in the UK

Splashdown occurred at 8:45 a.m. EST about 230 miles off the Florida coast.

Summary: Using three different types of brain imaging, the researchers found evidence of the three types of changes in the brain, all occurring in exactly the same brain location. Source: Carnegie Mellon University Acade...