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Credit: David Hunt/University of Rochester Teenage girls who were maltreated as children are more likely to entertain suicidal thoughts if...

Credit: Shawn Rocco/ Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- As e-cigarette use expands among teens in the U.S., so have vaping...

Credit: Kessler Foundation Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Traumatic Brain Injury Research at Kessler Foundation, has been awarded a...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, October 18, 2018--A new study describes the mechanistic relationship between the...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Samples of ancient sediments from a lake basin in East Africa have revealed that arid conditions...

Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 17, 2018--A new collaborative study has investigated Arctic shrub-snow interactions to...

Innovative cardioprotective strategies are of imminent demand. Nonfatal myocardial ischemia (MI) poses a significant risk to patients undergoing major non-cardiac...

Corresponding Author: Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Director of The Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - Adding to growing evidence that pesticide use may be contributing to the decline...

La Jolla, CA - Oct. 17, 2018 - Scientists at Scripps Research have successfully tested a potential new smoking-cessation treatment...

Credit: Dr. Fontanillas SAN DIEGO, Calif. - By combining data on individuals' lifetime sun exposure and their genetics, researchers can...

Credit: J. Tyner et al./ Nature 2018 After years of work, researchers are releasing a massive dataset detailing the molecular...

Credit: OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff PORTLAND, Oregon - After more than five years and 672 patient samples, an OHSU research team has...

Credit: Lauren D. Quinn, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Somatic stem cells are microscopic workhorses, constantly regenerating cells throughout...

Credit: American Chemical Society Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by...

Moss, one of the world's oldest plants, is surprisingly in tune with the atmosphere around it. Now in a study...

Scientists estimate that half a billion people in the world lack sufficient water to meet their daily needs, and that...

Credit: Swanson School of Engineering During graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Warren Ruder wondered if it...

In the Mediterranean region, there are numerous UNESCO World Heritage Sites in low-lying coastal areas. These include, for example, the...

Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new...