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Credit: Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Walking, running, sprinting -- every movement of the foot stretches the Achilles' tendon. When...

Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Peter Rüegg The manufacture of cement, bricks, bathroom tiles and porcelain crockery normally requires a great...

Tanning devices cost the US $343.1 million a year in medical costs because of the skin cancers their use is...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In the modern society, energy generation heavily relies on fossil fuels, which, however, lead to...

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - The shift from film to digital technology appears to have...

Credit: IST Austria How do molecules rotate in a solvent? Answering this question is a complicated task since the molecular...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Acid-base bifunctional catalysts exhibit wide applicability for atom-efficient functional group transformation, tandem reactions, and asymmetric...

CANCER RESEARCH UK, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the charity's commercial arm, and HitGen Ltd, a privately held biotech company focused...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Although it may come as no surprise to the Fresh Prince, kids think that parents just don't...

Credit: Courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio CLEMSON, South Carolina -- When the universe was young,...

Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients, according to a new study....

The combined results of two ovarian cancer screening trials suggest that a personalized strategy involving frequent screening of high-risk women...

Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to...

The iron-containing molecule heme is necessary for life. Cells require heme to perform the chemical reactions that produce energy, among...

Credit: The University of Akron Dr. Junliang (Julian) Tao is the latest University of Akron faculty member to be awarded...

MINNEAPOLIS - There's good news for kids with epilepsy. While several new drugs have come out in the last several...

Credit: Andrii Pshenychnyi A University of Central Florida professor has invented a way to use light to continuously monitor a...

Credit: Public domain. FEMA/Andrea Booher AMHERST, Mass. - A recent first-of-its-kind analysis of wildfire records over 20 years shows that...