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Credit: Robin Casalla While the last species of the termite genus Proneotermes has been discovered more than a hundred years ago, now scientists have discovered...

Credit: UNIST Scientists from around the world, including South Korea, Japan, and United States have, for the first time, decoded the complex genetic makeup of...

Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK — Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of perception, literally upending models of...

Credit: Angela Brown COLUMBUS, Ohio – If a Japanese woman were to compliment a friend on her flattering pale-blue blouse, she'd probably employ a word...

Credit: HSS Scleroderma is a terribly debilitating disease with no effective treatments and the mortality rates are still upwards of 20%-50%, the highest of any...

Credit: Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Molecular Embryology at The Rockefeller University With new findings, scientists may be poised to break a long impasse...

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA – John Lukens recently became the first patient in Pennsylvania to receive MR-guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment (MRgFUS) for Essential Tremor (ET)....

Many cancer therapies are highly toxic, and even when they appear to work, a significant percentage of patients will experience a relapse after only a...

Credit: Children's National Health System CHICAGO — Regions of the United States with stronger firearm legislation had lower rates of Emergency Department (ED) visits for...

Credit: University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 8, 2017) — University of Kentucky researchers have observed a significant...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer With both tourism and casual "hookup" sex on the rise among college-age adults, there's an urgent need for gender-sensitive...

Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society Presidential action to alter current law risks undermining progress made by Congress, the American people, and a cadre of...

Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON – During the millions of pregnancies that occur in the United States every year, expectant moms learn oodles about...

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found a link between higher levels of a specific kind of air pollution in...

A defective gene linked to autism influences how neurons connect and communicate with each other in the brain, according to a study from Washington University...