Overweight and obesity often continue for generations in families. The links can be genetic but are also related to family...

Credit: NTU Singapore Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a 'contact lens' patch with microneedles that could...

Credit: Rima Rozen's laboratory, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre A team of scientists at the Research Institute...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A significant proportion of suicidal teens treated in a psychiatric emergency department said that watching the...

Credit: Boston Children's Hospital A team of scientists at Boston Children's Hospital has developed the first modeling system for testing...

One day, MRI brain scans may help predict whether older people will develop dementia, new research suggests. In a small...

Credit: Karin Calvinho/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Rutgers scientists have developed catalysts that can convert carbon dioxide - the main cause of...

Improving staff training in care homes and reducing reliance on harmful medications saves thousands of pounds per year, as well...

Bottom Line: Patients who are diagnosed with adenomas, a possible precursor of colorectal cancer, often do not receive subsequent colonoscopies...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - The Abramson Cancer Center (ACC) at the University of Pennsylvania announced today that it is...

Credit: UIC media library The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science...

Credit: University of Illinois Department of Computer Science As Professor Sheldon Jacobson watched the September 2001 terrorist attacks unfold, he...

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite is providing data on rain rates within Tropical Cyclone...

Credit: Natasha Litchinitser, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons...

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Cyclone 04S, known as Bouchra formed in the Southern Indian Ocean during the week of Nov....

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Four Argonne research projects have earned R&D 100 Awards, long considered the "Oscars" of scientific innovation....

Washington, DC - From online forums to community groups, research and experience shows people are more willing to insult and...

Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina Although there is good news about smoking -- only 14 percent of...

Credit: Wei-Chien Yuan/Boston Children's Hospital It's known that cancer involves unchecked cell growth and that a biological pathway that regulates...

Credit: A. Fulcher, courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Producers of landscape trees, shrubs, vines and perennials, all of which are...