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Sleep is a critical period for memory consolidation, and most people don’t get enough. Research has shown that even brief...

A new study has shown for the first time that people can be trained to “see” letters of the alphabet...

PhD student Andrea Ippolito improves health care through engineering, entrepreneurship, and systems design.For as long as she can remember, Andrea...

MIT chemists have developed new nanoparticles that can simultaneously perform magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and fluorescent imaging in living animals....

Although every person's DNA remains the same throughout their lives, scientists know that it functions differently at different ages. As...

Researchers study how group interaction influences where female fruit flies lay their eggs Fruit flies do not always conform to...

UC Davis researchers are getting a new look at the workings of HIV and other viruses thanks to new techniques...

Chemists have developed a revolutionary new way to manufacture natural chemicals and used it to assemble a scarce anti-inflammatory drug...

When a viral infection spread through five genetically identical mice in a row, the virus replicated faster and became more...

Researchers are studying the Caulobacter crescentus bacterium because of its developmental process and cellular cycle, which serve as models for...

A research team bringing together José Cohen and Philippe Grimbert (Inserm Unit 955/Université Paris Est Créteil and the Centre for...

Researchers working on artificial intelligence at Queen Mary have taught a computer to create magic tricks. The researchers from gave...

A novel looping mechanism that involves the end caps of DNA may help explain the aging of cells and how...

Is it possible to change the amount of information the brain can store? Maybe, according to a new international study...

Stanching the free flow of blood from an injury remains a holy grail of clinical medicine. Controlling blood flow is...

A University of Utah study of two African tribes found evidence that men evolved better navigation ability than women because...

In an unexpected mashup of financial and mechanical engineering, researchers have discovered that the same modeling used to forecast fluctuations...

Medicine is drifting towards a major problem. An increasing number of bacteria is no longer sensitive to known antibiotics. Doctors...

For detecting cancer, manual breast exams seem low-tech compared to other methods such as MRI. But scientists are now developing...

New Weizmann Institute research may bring the idea of sleep learning one step closer to reality. The research, which appeared...