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The idea that interstellar object 'Oumuamua is a hydrogen iceberg has a flaw.

Research suggests the language young adults use to describe the effects they feel from drinking may give insight into their drinking habits.

A multi-site study finds that seniors are more concerned with being infected with COVID-19 than the effects of social isolation.

Researchers have found a treatment that increases the speed of nerve regeneration by three to five times, leading to much better outcomes for trauma surgery patients.

A robust, low-cost imaging platform utilizing lab-on-a-chip technology may be available for rapid coronavirus diagnostic and antibody testing throughout the nation by the end of the year.

(University of Exeter) Pioneering new research has highlighted some of the political difficulties with the UK's energy transition, in particular around vested fossil fuel interests.

A recent study suggests transmission of COVID-19 through breast milk is not likely. The infectious virus was not detected in 64 samples of breast milk tested.

Scientists have made a major advance in the pursuit of a safe and effective treatment for type 1 diabetes, an illness that impacts an estimated 1.6 million Americans with a cost of $14.4 billion annually. Using stem cell...

In an important step toward practical implementation of secure quantum-based communication, researchers have demonstrated secure measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) transmission over a recor...

Between 2017 and 2030, an estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded in India than would be by chance, due to sex-selective abortions, according to a new study.

Data from the first COVID-19 patients treated at three large Massachusetts hospitals reveal important trends, including disproportionate representation of vulnerable populations, high rates of disease-related complicatio...

Let's take inspiration from the way we intervene to help degraded ecosystems recover and attempt to restore the atmosphere back to full health, writes Graham Lawton

A new study calculates the lifetime risk of death from firearms and drug overdoses in the United States. The lifetime risk of death from firearms is about one percent, and the lifetime risk of death from drug overdoses i...

Researchers have developed a prototype device that non-invasively detected COVID-19 in the exhaled breath of infected patients.

New research has made an exciting leap forward in understanding how skin heals, which could lead to drug treatments to vastly improve wound healing.

Researchers used artificial intelligence and genetic analyses to examine the structure of the inner surface of the heart using 25,000 MRI scans. They found that the complex network of muscle fibers lining the inside of t...

For decades, physicians have known that many kinds of cancer cells often spread first to lymph nodes before traveling to distant organs through the bloodstream. New research provides insight into why this occurs, opening...

Over the past two decades, a new area at the interface of semiconductor physics, electronics and quantum mechanics has been gaining popularity among theoretical physicists and experimenters. This new field is called spin...

Medical researchers are tracking the onset of ataxias. The results provide valuable data for prevention studies. The data were collected by a research network, which includes scientific institutions from Austria, France,...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about rapid innovation in mental health care, and the move to telemedicine is likely here to stay to at least some degree, but new research cautions that serious barriers still need to b...

The release of massive amounts of proteins called cytokines can lead to some of the most severe symptoms of COVID-19. A new study now suggests that high levels of some cytokines may also prevent people who are infected f...

Social adversity in early childhood appears to be a significant risk factor for death in early adulthood. Children who have experienced repeated serious adversity such as losing a parent, mental illness in the family, po...