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Credit: Mark A. Garlick / CfA Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the...

Credit: Marion Dierickx / CfA The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light-years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's...

Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski In the future, it will be possible to carry out tests of new drugs on bacteria much more efficiently using...

Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - As a graduate student, Scarlet Shell spent four months in rural and urban clinics in Peru studying...

Montreal, Jan. 11, 2017 - A team of researchers at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has found an epigenetic modification...

Antidepressant use nearly doubles the risk of hip fracture among community-dwelling persons with Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from the University of Eastern...

Researchers have invented a range of instruments from giant telescopes to rovers to search for life in outer space, but so far, these efforts have...

Nuclear spin tomography is an application in (human) medicine known from medical institutions. The patient absorbs and re-emits electromagnetic radiation in all directions in space....

With the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana spreading across the country, the drug's use is reportedly increasing among pregnant women. It stands to reason...

Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers at Duke University have recruited an unlikely ally in the fight against the deadliest form of brain...

Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 11, 2017--A new study shows that a rat model of metabolic syndrome fed a high-sugar...

Fleece is a wintertime staple but could be contributing to the next big ocean plastics problem: lint. The lightweight, cozy material sheds some of its...

The same deposit that builds up in many tea kettles or water pipes in areas where calcium-rich water is the norm might be just the...

Credit: MU Health COLUMBIA, Mo. (Jan. 11, 2017) -- Warfarin is a commonly prescribed blood thinner used to prevent harmful blood clots. However, the drug...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Scientists at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) have designed an antibody-based therapy that could target the functions...