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Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech A well-known experiment with young people bouncing a ball showed that when an observer focuses on counting the passes, he does...

Credit: Scott Wiseman JUPITER, FL--April 10, 2018--Christoph Rader, PhD, associate professor at the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute, has been awarded a $2.875...

Credit: The University of Akron Sharon Truesdell has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship. The program is the NSF's most highly...

The results of an international clinical trial for a new system of diagnosing heart transplant rejection and injury will be presented publicly for the first...

Despite heart disease and type 2 diabetes being among the leading causes of death in the U.S., the mechanisms leading to and linking these two...

Researchers have identified specific predictive biomarkers that could help assess the level of risk for recurrence in patients with malignant glioma. The study, led by...

Credit: University of Cordoba A University of Cordoba research group has designed a tool that enables detection of antidepressants in urine samples in low concentrations....

The emergence of mobile pastoralism on the Eurasian steppe five thousand years ago marked a wholly unique transformation in human prehistory, where people relied for...

Credit: Anne Hilborn Cheetahs in the Serengeti National Park adopt different strategies while eating to deal with threats from top predators such as lions or...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - It's been said that people can be judged by the company they keep. New research from Michigan State University shows that...

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 10, 2018 -- Olives grow on trees. So why have you never seen a fresh, tree-ripened olive in...

Credit: Dr. Richard Unsworth Research led by Swansea University's Bioscience department have found that the world's centre of biodiversity is under widespread threat of losing...

Touch: We use it all the time to interact with the world around us. Yet the sense of touch is far less understood than our...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Below the surface of systems as large and ancient as an ocean and as small and new as a human baby are...

Credit: Shutterstock Our local environments are full of moving objects, but when we look at them, our brains can take around 50-60 milliseconds to put...