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The final flight of British Airways' Concorde took place in October 2003, going from New York to London in three and a half hours. Inaugurated in 1976, the supersonic jet flew more than 2.5 million passengers over its li...

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) appears to be a feasible and acceptable therapy to help with mood regulation in those with bipolar disorder.

From a collection of molecules inspired by anti-parasitic medicines comes a potential drug candidate against COVID-19.

Pooled results from phase 3 clinical trials demonstrate that roxadustat is efficacious and may be comparable to placebo in studies done to date for treating anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease who do not requi...

In a clinical trial of individuals at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes, which is the leading cause of kidney disease, vitamin D supplementation did not have significant effects on kidney health. As participants w...

Intense blooms of toxic algae are becoming common occurrences along the coast of Florida and elsewhere. Results from a new study found that wearing the face mask everyone has become accustomed to during the COVID-19 pand...

Both grandiose and vulnerable narcissists crave high social status and recognition. Grandiose narcissists consider themselves more successful at being able to obtain high social status, while vulnerable narcissists do no...

The older an adult believes a Black child to be, the more likely they are to believe the child is exhibiting angry emotions, even when they are not. The same emotional perception shift does not occur when an adult sees a...

Meet the sheepshead fish, a common Atlantic coast swimmer with a very crunchy diet.

Rats are notorious for spreading disease.

Study highlights the role dopamine receptors play in motivation and decision making.

Gale crater, which NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought to have once held a huge lake - but it may have been more like a puddle

Researchers reveal how proteins accumulate in the incorrect parts of brain cells in ALS, and demonstrate how it may be possible to reverse the accumulation.

Study reveals a link between corticosteroid receptors and genes associated with ciliary and neuroplasticity in the hippocampus, an area of the brain associated with stress response, learning, and memory.

Cerebral palsy is caused by brain damage that leads to muscle weakness and problems walking. But with support, people with cerebral palsy can lead relatively normal, functioning lives.

High-angle annular dark-field scanning transmission electron microscopy can be used to determine complex conformational structures of both crystalline and amorphous polynuclear non-planar coordination molecules, as shown...

Some dolphins churn up seafloor mud to form a ring that traps fish - and now we know the technique has been developed independently by dolphins near Belize and near Florida

Microscopic organic blobs created from scratch could provide clues about how biological cells formed spontaneously on early Earth - and further efforts to generate synthetic life

Cats are thought to purr for a number of different reasons, not just when they are content

A new model lays out when vaccine-resistant mutants are most likely to emerge.

If you are a researcher who wants to see how just a few cells in an organism are behaving, it is no simple task. The human body contains approximately 37 trillion cells; the fruit fly flitting around the overripe bananas...

Although scientists don't fully understand the varying strengths of the factors contributing to the slowdown, all of them are linked to human-caused climate change.