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Credit: KU News Service LAWRENCE -- For older adults, physical activity is apt to shield against cognitive decline and forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's...

People who sleep five or fewer hours a night are likely to also drink significantly more sugary caffeinated drinks, such as sodas and energy drinks,...

A molecule thought to play a key role in some inflammatory diseases can be switched off by two widely used medicines, new research has shown....

Study shows almost 1 in 5 women with diabetes also suffer from depression; younger age, poor health, not completing high school, inactivity due to pain...

For several years, scientists have been working toward "breathalyzers" that can diagnose various diseases without painful pinpricks, needles or other unpleasant methods. Now, one team...

(Boston)-- A new technique has been identified that quickly and cheaply recognizes illegal designer drugs that normally evade detection. The findings, described online in the...

We frequently encounter polyurethane (PU) foams in everyday life: they are in the insulation in house façades and refrigerators, in car seats, in living room...

Credit: Photo provided by POSTECH Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted global attention due to their water-repellant characteristics and myriad number and variety of applications. A team...

Aquaculture experts from the University of Stirling and the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) in Catalonia, have found the way fish,...

A new model developed by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) shows how an electricity system mainly based on solar and wind works in all regions...

Up to now, the speed record for horizontal flight was held by birds from the swift family: the common swift, for example, can reach speeds...

Credit: Courtesy of Astrid Rollenhagen and Joachim Lübke; for details see Rollenhagen et al., J. Neurosci. 27: 10434-10444 (2007) Synapses form connections between neurons. Their...

Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size when exposed to a relatively...

Credit: Dirk Notz For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres of Arctic summer sea ice...

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for $3.6 million over five years will support formation of MARISA (Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments), a...