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SAN FRANCISCO, CA—March 8, 2023—When it comes to oxygen, you can have too much of a good thing. Breathing air...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A new University of Alabama at Birmingham startup has become one of the few Alabama-based therapeutics companies...

Two-dimensional semiconductors have a chance to galvanize significant advances in electronic device capabilities, replacing silicon-based chips. However, many problems continue...

Tempe, Ariz. — The National Science Foundation today announced $90.8 million in funding to Arizona State University — the largest...

A new analysis supports the idea that particles of light (photons) colliding with heavy ions create a fluid of “strongly...

Chagas disease affects approximately 6 million people only in Latin America and is one of the leading causes of death...

EVANSTON, Ill. — When physicists steered a tiny microparticle toward a cylindrical obstacle, they expected one of two outcomes to...

A global dataset of ocean plastic pollution between 1979 and 2019 reveals a rapid and unprecedented increase in ocean plastics...

Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s...

The pathogenic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus escapes elimination from surface cells of the human lung by binding to a human protein....

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sticking with an exercise program can be tough, even during the best of times. But what about...

UPTON, NY—Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are leading a new effort to land a...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Americans likely are receiving smaller tax refunds than they have in recent years, and most people...

March 8, 2023, Mountain View, CA – The SETI Institute and Swan Hellenic announce SETI Institute guest lecturers who will...

An international team of scientists led by Tomáš Pluskal from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have detected gaseous water in the planet-forming disc around the star V883...

The traditional line of thought is that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is caused by directly experiencing the traumatic event. However,...

In 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, dementia was the dominant risk factor for the disease among residents...

“Given that Sweden was one of the countries that did not have a lockdown during the pandemic, this increase is...

Each year, more than 3 million people ages 65 and older are treated in emergency departments for fall injuries. Head...