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Internet trolls, by definition, are disruptive, combative and often unpleasant with their offensive or provocative online posts designed to disturb and upset. The common assumption...

Out of concern that flame retardants - polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) - cause health problems, the U.S. government worked with manufacturers to start phasing them...

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Boston University and George Mason University have developed a Bitcoin-compatible system that could make it significantly more difficult for...

Credit: Elly Morriën et al. / Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) 'Relationships' in the soil become stronger during the process of nature restoration. Although all...

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a desktop diagnosis tool that detects the presence...

The same brain-chemical system that mediates feelings of pleasure from sex, recreational drugs, and food is also critical to experiencing musical pleasure, according to a...

A national study from England indicates that older women are often not offered immediate breast reconstruction following a mastectomy, even though guidelines state that surgeons...

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...