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The mystery behind what's causing the E. coli outbreak that's sickened more than 100 Americans in the past month may finally be solved.

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley have built a new photonic switch that can control the direction of light passing through optical fibers faster and more efficiently than ever. This optical "traffic cop...

Scientists have found material commonly used for fish allergy testing is unreliable -- potentially putting lives at risk.

Researchers at Missouri S&T have found an unprecedented, economical method for creating high-performance inorganic thin films, or "epitaxial" films, used in the manufacture of semiconductors for flexible electronics, LED...

Prolong your life by increasing your muscle power. That's the main message of a new study. 'Rising from a chair in old age and kicking a ball depend more on muscle power than muscle strength, yet most weight bearing exer...

A new study analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) for children younger than six years who were treated in a US emergency department due to concern of a foreign body ingestion from ...

Improving fitness doesn't require doing activities you don't like. The largest study to date of cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy people found that moving more is linked to living longer, regardless of age, sex, and s...

Air pollution from diesel engines may worsen allergy-induced lung impairment more when tiny particles are filtered from the exhaust than when they are not, according to new research published online in the American Thora...

Kicking the habit works best in pairs. That's the main message of a new study. 'Quitting smoking can be a lonely endeavor,' said a study author.

In the food deserts of the deep ocean, it doesn't take long for scavengers to find a bonanza when it lands.

While listening to audiobooks with a captivating narrative, the inferior parietal lobe and visual cortex elicit individual meaning and flow of mental imagery.

38 new genes have been implicated in hearing loss. One of the genes, SPNS2, has been linked to childhood deafness.

Convolutional neural network model significantly outperforms previous methods and is as accurate as humans in segmenting active and overlapping neurons.

Researchers predict the development of a brain/cloud interface that connects neurons to cloud computing networks in real time.

Taking a short rest following a learning activity to help strengthen memory consolidation.

A localization phenomenon boosts the accuracy of solving quantum many-body problems with quantum computers. These problems are otherwise challenging for conventional computers. This brings such digital quantum simulation...

In utero exposure to anesthesia appears to disrupt the migration of neurons to developing brain areas critical to language and cognition in rats.

The US Department of Defense is ending its contract with cold war-era advisory group JASON. That's OK - today's scientists need to air concerns in public, says Audra J. Wolfe

The first black hole ever directly imaged now has been nicknamed Pōwehi, but making the name official will take some time

About 12 million years ago, antelopes with slingshot-like horns and beasts that weren't quite elephants but that had long trunks and tusks tramped across the "Texas Serengeti" searching for food and caring for their babi...

During the past 50 years, the frequency of recorded natural disasters has surged nearly five-fold. In this blog, I'll be exploring how converging exponential technologies (AI, robotics, drones, sensors, networks) are tra...

Online clicks are worth big money. Now hackers are using a cunning set of click-tricks to make money from people visiting websites without them realising