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Credit: Marion Dierickx / CfA The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth,...

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and...

Montreal, Jan. 11, 2017 - A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC)...

Antidepressant use nearly doubles the risk of hip fracture among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study...

Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but...

Nuclear spin tomography is an application in (human) medicine known from medical institutions. The patient absorbs and re-emits electromagnetic radiation...

With the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana spreading across the country, the drug's use is reportedly increasing among pregnant...

Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have recruited an unlikely ally in the fight against...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 11, 2017--A new study shows that a rat model of...

Fleece is a wintertime staple but could be contributing to the next big ocean plastics problem: lint. The lightweight, cozy...

The same deposit that builds up in many tea kettles or water pipes in areas where calcium-rich water is the...

Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Jan. 11, 2017) -- Warfarin is a commonly prescribed blood thinner used to prevent harmful...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have designed an antibody-based therapy...

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University The White House has awarded Rice University physicist Wei Li a Presidential Early Career Award for...

Concrete shells are efficient structures, but not very resource efficient. The formwork for the construction of concrete domes alone requires...

Proteins are the major biochemical workhorses that carry out multitude of physiological functions in an organism. The astonishing feature of...

Credit: Cho, Y., Gorina, S., Jeffrey, P.D., Pavletich, N.P.; Astrojan. Before a malignant tumor is developed, the immune system tries...

Credit: Per Henning, NTNU Air Products has signed an exclusive license agreement with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology...

Credit: LCSB at the University of Luxembourg Scientists at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of...