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April 18, 2026

‘Supersized alcopops’ pose unique danger to youth

Credit: Creative Services, George Mason University College students seriously underestimate the effects of drinking a new class of beverages being...

Face transplantation — An established option to improve quality of life in patients with severe facial trauma

June 8, 2018 - Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, US trauma surgeons should be aware of the...

Increased safety in diagnosing cardiac infarction with more sensitive analytical method

Credit: Photo by Pernilla Lundgren Five percent more cardiac infarctions detected and 11 percent fewer patients suffering a relapse. That...

Holes in the head

Credit: University of Miami Even with a highly skilled neurosurgeon, the most effective anesthesia, and all the other advances of...

Mars rover finds ancient organic compounds that match meteoritic samples

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Washington, DC-- NASA's Curiosity rover has discovered new "tough" organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks on Mars, increasing...

Consumer food choices can help reduce greenhouse emissions contributing to climate change

HARTFORD, Conn. and BOSTON (June 7, 2018)-- Changes in diet have been proposed as a way to reduce carbon emissions...

Threat of malaria left its mark on the immune system in people with African ancestry

Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Flickr, Public Domain Mark 1.0 In a new study published June...

MSU graduate’s research of wildlife movement patterns wins landscape ecology award

Credit: Meredith McClure BOZEMAN - A Montana State University doctoral graduate's research on the best way to identify places important...

Inhibitors for gas hydrates to receive grant funding from RFBR

KFU employees have been engaged in hydrate studies since 2016. Many questions were raised at that time about the practicality...

Does cancer increase risk of diabetes?

Bottom Line: Developing cancer was associated with increased risk for later diabetes in a nationally representative sample of the Korean...

Genomic study reveals surprising twist

Credit: © E. Rivest/VIMS. A new study puts a surprising twist--one might even say a double spiral--into our understanding of...

Why seashells are tougher than chalk (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 7, 2018 -- Seashells are made mostly of calcium carbonate, also known as...

Study shows PR best practices are only second best

LAWRENCE -- Within public relations, the standard practice of looking out for No. 1 and viewing relationships as sources of...

Tiny paragliding beetle that lived with dinosaurs discovered in amber, named ‘Jason’

Credit: Shuhei Yamamoto, Field Museum Featherwing beetles are smaller than the period at the end of this sentence. They get...

Maps made of nerve cells

Credit: Source: Thomas Hainmüller, Marlene Bartos Dr. Thomas Hainmüller and Prof. Dr. Marlene Bartos of the Institute of Psychology of...

Customized resistance exercise a factor for success with fibromyalgia

Credit: Photo by Stefan Svensson Fibromyalgia and resistance exercise have often been considered an impossible combination. But with proper support...

St. Jude partners with NCI cancer centers with goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers

In keeping with its mission of "finding cures and means of prevention for childhood catastrophic diseases," St. Jude Children's Research...

The marbled crayfish have established themselves in Narva power plant

Credit: Mari-Liis Koemets The dangerous invasive species marbled crayfish has settled well in the water body and developed a significant...

FEFU scientists have created a new type of optical ceramic material

Credit: FEFU laboratory Materials Multilayer YAG/Nd3+:YAG/YAG composite laser ceramics with a high concentration of active additive outclassed the commercial glass...

Cost and scale of field trials for bovine TB vaccine may make them unfeasible