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In an analysis of more than 18,000 patients treated for colon cancer, current smokers were 14 percent more likely to die from their colon cancer...

EPFL scientists have been able to measure the ultrashort time delay in electron photoemission without using a clock. The discovery has important implications for fundamental...

Credit: Photo provided by Michelle Cilia ITHACA, NY-- While searching for a potential Achilles' heel in the insect responsible for spreading the bacterium that causes...

Scientists have uncovered key processes in the healthy development of cells which line the human gut, furthering their understanding about the development of cancer. A...

One of the big puzzles in astrophysics is how stars like the sun manage to form from collapsing molecular clouds in star-forming regions of the...

Credit: Grace Gongaware Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will use a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test...

Montreal, February 7, 2017 -- Have you ever been told you have writing like chicken scratch? It turns out this might not only bother your...

Credit: Jessica Brandt, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- A new Duke University study has found high levels of selenium in fish in three North Carolina...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Every other year, the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling hosts a competition in which computer systems designed by conference participants...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Detecting brain tumors at the earliest possible stage and eliminating them before seizures begin might be possible one day, according...

Credit: USGS A new scientific approach can now provide regional assessments of land recovery following oil and gas drilling activities, according to a new U.S....

CHAPEL HILL, NC - Day in and day out, in our bodies, the DNA in cells is damaged for a variety of reasons, and thus...

Credit: Grace Gongaware Researchers at Case Western Reserve University will use a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test...

Credit: Michael Prerau, PhD Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have developed a novel approach to analyze brainwaves during sleep, which promises to give a more...

Limiting lung cancer screening to high-risk former smokers may improve cost-effectiveness at a population level, according to a study published in PLOS Medicine. Regular computed...