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Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (June 8, 2017) If you think self-driving cars can't get here soon enough, you're not alone. But programming computers...

Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA levels in cigaret..

Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses can be very revealing about...

Credit: RIKEN People organize memories in photo albums, journals or calendars, but how does the brain first put events in order? Though a great deal...

Credit: Gradinaru lab/Caltech Caltech researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. The findings have implications for treating insomnia, oversleeping, and...

DENVER - Capturing and summarizing the remarkable progress in lung cancer prevention, diagnosis, staging and treatment in 2016, the International Association for the Study of...

What is it about a father that affects his teenage daughter's likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior? Researchers have long shown links between father...

(Boston)--Nepal is often heralded as a model of successful implementation and rapid scale-up of safe abortion services. Yet despite the legalization of the procedure in...

Credit: Robert Bayer Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity - similar to humans or primates. This has been confirmed in a new...

Cars that can drive autonomously have recently made headlines. In the near future, machines that can learn autonomously will become increasingly present in our lives....

Credit: NASA SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its eleventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station June 1 from NASA's...

Credit: Dr Luning Liu, University of Liverpool New research from the University of Liverpool, published in the journal Nanoscale, has probed the structure and material...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the strength of a...

Credit: Kory Gozjack ATLANTA--Sex-changing fish exhibit differences in androgen receptor (AR) expression in muscles that are highly sensitive to androgens (male sex hormones) and essential...

Hamilton, ON, June 8, 2017 -- Delaying the introduction of potentially allergenic foods until after a baby's first year may increase the likelihood of a...