Credit: Mount Sinai Health System An early-stage clinical trial has found that, compared to a placebo, a novel medication significantly ...

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Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members -- cryptographer Stefano Tessaro and condensed matter physicist Andrea Young -- have been selected ...

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Credit: Mark C. Hersam Almost one year ago, borophene didn't even exist. Now, just months after a Northwestern University and ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...Feb. 22, 2017 - Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the first time ever, a single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully ...

CINCINNATI - Scientists propose in Nature blocking a molecule that drives inflammation and organ damage in Gaucher and maybe other ...

Chemotherapy has long been standard treatment for many cancers, but its clinical benefits can also come with well-documented side effects. ...

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Beetles wear a body armor that should weigh them down -- think medieval knights and turtles. In fact, those hard ...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 ...

Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers using the TRAPPIST-South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal ...

Researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have harnessed the power of CRISPR/Cas9 to create more-potent chimeric antigen receptor ...

New ways to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into methane gas for energy use are a step closer after scientists discovered ...

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