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Loading video... Credit: Credit University of British Columbia. Zoologists have documented the first record of a House Swift in the ...

Soaring medical costs from bicycle accidents

Bicycle use has skyrocketed in popularity, but it's also led to more accidents, with medical costs from non-fatal bike crashes ...

Insilico Medicine launches a drug discovery platform ALS.AI

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, June 1st, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Today, Insilico Medicine, Inc., a company applying the latest advances ...

Exposure to specific toxins and nutrients during late pregnancy & early life correlate w autism risk

Using evidence found in baby teeth, researchers from The Senator Frank R. Lautenberg Environmental Health Sciences Laboratory and The Seaver ...

One gene closer to regenerative therapy for muscular disorders

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - A detour on the road to regenerative medicine for people with muscular disorders is figuring ...

New teen drivers 3 times as likely to be involved in a deadly crash

WASHINGTON (June 1, 2017) - New teen drivers ages 16-17 years old are three times as likely as adults to ...

Imaging technique for treating heart condition should be more widely used to minimize radiation exposure

NEW YORK (June 1, 2017) - A technique to treat an irregular heartbeat that limits or eliminates patients' exposure to ...

HIV status may affect the progression of HPV infection to cervical pre-cancer

Bottom Line: A study of Senegalese women showed that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection was more likely to develop into cervical ...

In atomic propellers, quantum phenomena can mimic everyday physics

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In molecules there are certain groups of atoms that are able to rotate. This movement ...

Physicists create ‘molecular black hole’ using ultra-intense X-ray pulses

Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like ...

Newly identified microbial process could reduce toxic methylmercury levels

Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department ...

Radiation therapy, macrophages improve efficacy of nanoparticle-delivered cancer therapy

Credit: Miles Miller, PhD, and Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD; Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital ...

New tech promises easier cervical cancer screening

Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed a handheld device for cervical cancer screening that promises ...

How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences

UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something, ...

Mining for answers on abandoned mines

Credit: Andrew Harley Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is ...

Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive

Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full ...

Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report

Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report ...

We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back

Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or ...

Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment

Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what ...

NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean