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Credit: C. Thiel und Airbus DS Mammalian cells are optimally adapted to gravity. But what happens in the microgravity environment of space if the earth's...

After much deliberation and anxiety, the family finally sought psychiatric help for their son. And the results were in a way, a relief. The doctors'...

Credit: Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Walking, running, sprinting -- every movement of the foot stretches the Achilles' tendon. When jumping, the loads can approach...

Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Peter Rüegg The manufacture of cement, bricks, bathroom tiles and porcelain crockery normally requires a great deal of heat: a kiln...

Tanning devices cost the US $343.1 million a year in medical costs because of the skin cancers their use is associated with, according to a...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In the modern society, energy generation heavily relies on fossil fuels, which, however, lead to environmental pollution and depletion of...

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - The shift from film to digital technology appears to have improved cancer detection rates for...

Credit: IST Austria How do molecules rotate in a solvent? Answering this question is a complicated task since the molecular rotation is perturbed by a...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Acid-base bifunctional catalysts exhibit wide applicability for atom-efficient functional group transformation, tandem reactions, and asymmetric synthesis. In ..

CANCER RESEARCH UK, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the charity's commercial arm, and HitGen Ltd, a privately held biotech company focused on early drug discovery, announced...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Although it may come as no surprise to the Fresh Prince, kids think that parents just don't understand what it is like...

Credit: Courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio CLEMSON, South Carolina -- When the universe was young, a supermassive black hole --...

Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources for fossil fuels, but a...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients, according to a new study. Recent research into statins has...