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Smokers with depression who successfully quit smoking using stop smoking services may see an improvement in their mental health, according to new research,* funded by...

In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University have found evidence of a new principle for how epigenetic changes can occur. The principle is based...

Credit: From Chernova et al Cell Reports (2017). Prions have a notorious reputation. They cause neurodegenerative disease, namely mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. And the way these...

Credit: Raag Airan Biomedical engineers at Johns Hopkins report they have worked out a noninvasive way to release and deliver concentrated amounts of a drug...

A fatty molecule thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea. The surprising finding solves a...

Credit: Photo by Jen Guyton, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Be it the Mima mounds of Washington state or the famous "fairy circles" of...

Credit: Occupational Knowledge International SAN FRANCISCO - Aluminum cookware made from scrap metal in countries around the world poses a serious and previously unrecognized health...

Credit: UNIST Earlier today, UNIST has signed a multi-year strategic partnership agreement with seven research institutes to accelerate the realization of government's new plan to...

San Antonio, Texas - Over 128 million daily commuters in the U.S. and 75% report they drive alone. From improving traffic flow to air quality,...

Credit: University of Huddersfield SCIENTISTS at the University of Huddersfield have developed a new chemical reaction that is catalysed using simple iron salts - an...

Credit: World Scientific, 2017 Particle Physics usually only hits the headlines when a new particle is discovered or some similar breakthrough. The principal reaction is...

UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies to improve patients' responses to cancer immunotherapy and to increase...

Credit: Jakob Kibsgaard, DTU Physics The world population is growing, as is energy demand, and we have long been able to see the consequences of...

As Carlos García-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is not propagated in a straight...

Credit: Yiping Shu (NAOC) and Gabi Perez (SMM/IAC). An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University...