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CHAPEL HILL -- Although the health risks associated with indoor tanning are clear, tanning bed use among college-aged women is still popular. A new study...

Loading video... Credit: Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener WASHINGTON, D.C., April t24, 2017 -- In the not-too-distant future, it may be possible to...

Credit: Will Hobbs Wounds heal - the cells in a body knit over a cut. When a neuron dies, the brain can rewire itself to...

Artificial intelligence--commonly known as A.I.--is already exceeding human abilities. Self-driving cars use A.I. to perform some tasks more safely than people. E-commerce companies use A.I....

Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Professor of the Institute of Civil Engineering of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) Andrey Ponomarev a..

Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Rengasayee "Sai" Veeraraghavan, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, became the sixth person in the world...

Credit: Kosmas Prassides Fuel such as petrol is made up of hydrocarbons -- a family of molecules consisting entirely of carbon and hydrogen. Pigment and...

Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University/Robin Diekmann This information can be used to produce images with a resolution of about 20 to 30 nanometres, and thereby ten...

Credit: Dialynas, et al. New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX,...

Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists have long studied which of the three primary photosynthetic eukaryotes (red algae, green algae, and glaucophytes) has come...

Credit: Aija Kukkala Prioritising areas The needs of nature and humans are increasingly in conflict, and prioritisation is needed. How should we choose additional areas...

Credit: Gustavo Nicolodelli, Embrapa Instrumentation WASHINGTON -- Numerous hazardous substances seep from landfills into soil and groundwater, threatening human health and the environment. However,..

Credit: Courtesy of the researchers LA JOLLA, CA--Professor Klaus Ley, M.D., has been selected as this year's winner of the Eugene M. Landis Award, the...

Who hasn't lived through the frustrating experience of being without a phone after forgetting to recharge it? This could one day be a thing of...

Credit: Jung et al. WASHINGTON, D.C., April 24, 2017 -- Researchers in South Korea have quantitatively deconstructed what they describe as the "ingenious mobility strategies"...