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Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home....

Credit: Purdue University/Shweta Singh WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University engineering innovator has developed a cloud-based platform aimed at mapping inter-industry dependence networks for...

Credit: Shutterstock Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics. The findings offer a potential new drug target...

New measure of Hubble constant highlights discrepancy between estimates of our cosmic fateCredit: Photo courtesy of the Carnegie-Irvine Galaxy Survey Determining how rapidly the universe...

Risky movements that benefit species do not result in added mortality, study findsCredit: Diefenbach Lab, Penn State Juvenile white-tailed deer that strike out to find...

Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina provide preclinical evidence that mental losses after traumatic brain injury can be reversed with complement inhibition, even...

Credit: Michael Bradshaw Found around the world, powdery mildew is a fungal disease especially harmful to plants within the sunflower family. Like most invasive pathogens,...

Research demonstrates potential for rapid, accurate glycan sequencingCredit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. -- Using a nanopore, researchers have demonstrated the potential to reduce the...

Tough as plastic wrap but elastic like a balloon, the lining could be a target for therapies to limit cancer cells from spreading.Credit: Image: Jose-Luis...

UMass Amherst study points to health benefits from reducing cigarette smokingCredit: UMass Amherst Inflammation in the body has been linked to the intensity of tobacco...

The demonstration of electroluminescence at terahertz frequencies from a silicon-germanium device marks a key step towards the long-sought goal of a silicon-based laserCredit: Università Roma...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Tiny fluorescent semiconductor dots, called quantum dots, are useful in a variety of health and electronic...

NIST researchers rely on a light touch.Credit: F. Zhou/NIST You're going at the speed limit down a two-lane road when a car barrels out of...

Climate change will increase schistosomiasis risk in regions where surface water moves closer to 21.7 degrees centigradeCredit: Rachel Hartman About one billion people worldwide are...

While kelp forests have declined dramatically along the California coast, sea otters in Monterey Bay are maintaining patches of healthy kelp forest, according to a...