Credit: Christopher Petoukhoff In the past decade, two-dimensional, 2D, materials have captured the fascination of a steadily increasing number of...

Information on significant properties of pharmaceutical tablets, such as their mechanical strength and dissolution, can now be obtained without resorting...

Retroviruses - the family of viruses that includes HIV - are almost half a billion years old, according to new...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Space travel in a reduced gravity environment can have lasting effects on the body. For...

A simple, linear robot is easy to control. With known goals and a clear understanding of variables, a controller tells...

Personal technology such as fitness trackers and smartphones that record users' daily activities are likely to be used increasingly in...

Credit: NSRC For members of the established research and education (R&E) networking community, attending conferences or sitting in on workshop...

Chemotherapy and anti-nausea pills; Advil and multivitamins; blood pressure medication and anti-depressants - drugs can be combined in endless ways....

WASHINGTON, DC (January 10, 2017)--About 25 percent of children and more than 41 percent of adults in the United States...

1. Breast cancer screening associated with substantial overdiagnosis in Danish study Screening was not associated with a reduction in advanced...

In this issue, the National Commission on Prevention Priorities publishes a much anticipated update to its 2006 ranking of clinical...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As some national guidelines now recommend against routine prostate cancer screening, the overall rate of men...

Credit: Monash University A landmark study, led by Monash University's Biomedicine Discovery Institute with the involvement of the Peter MacCallum...

Credit: Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - Research has shown that internet addicts do not always feel guilty about their usage,...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 9, 2017) - Cell powerhouses are typically long and lean, but with brain injury...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - When anthropologists of the future find our fossilized teeth, what will they be able to conclude about...

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new computational model of a neural circuit in...

Credit: Brent Adrian, Senior Research Associate, Midwestern University The human appendix, a narrow pouch that projects off the cecum in...

Credit: Jakub Ostrowski Looking to the stars for inspiration, astrophysicist Lars Bildsten, director of UC Santa Barbara's Kavli Institute for...

Credit: Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center MIAMI, January 9, 2017 - Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2,...