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Men and women with shorter, wider faces tend to be more sexually motivated and to have a stronger sex drive than those with faces of...

Credit: Children's National Health System Antibiotic resistance continues to grow around the world, with sometimes disastrous results. Some strains of bacteria no longer respond to...

Credit: Université de Montréal Humans may have ritualistically "killed" objects to remove their symbolic power, some 5,000 years earlier than previously thought, a new international...

Credit: NIEHS NIH rat study suggests amitriptyline temporarily inhibits the blood-brain barrier, allowing drugs to enter the brain. New research from the National Institutes of...

Credit: University of Utah A Utah law has led to increased early identification of infants with hearing loss due to a congenital infection, according to...

Credit: C. Maillo, IRB Barcelona This condition generally leads to chronic inflammation (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis), which can trigger fibrosis, cirrhosis and ultimately liver cancer. This study...

Preschoolers who score lower on a working memory task are likely to score higher on a dropout risk scale at the age of 13, researchers...

Credit: UIC Patients diagnosed at high-volume centers are up to 40 percent more likely to receive treatment for glioblastoma, according to a study from researchers...

Credit: Paul Joseph/UBC Researchers at the University of British Columbia have found a better way to identify unwanted animal products in ground beef. Food science...

Credit: Dr. Adam Levine PROVIDENCE, R.I. –To properly treat young children with severe diarrhea, caregivers in clinics long on patients and short on resources need...

SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 6, 2015 – University of Utah chemists devised a new way to detect chemical damage to DNA that sometimes leads to...

Credit: Osaka University Malaria*1 is one of three major infectious diseases*2 affecting approximately 300 million people every year, accounting for about 500,000 deaths, but effective...

Credit: Mackenzie Gerringer/University of Washington The ocean's deepest fish doesn't look like it could survive in harsh conditions thousands of feet below the surface. Instead...

Credit: NASA While it's true that space radiation is one of the biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars, it's also true that NASA...

Credit: Hafner Lab/Rice University HOUSTON – (Feb. 15, 2017) – Five years of hard work and a little "cosmic luck" led Rice University researchers to...