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Credit: Photo: Andreas Heddergott / TUM Walking, running, sprinting -- every movement of the foot stretches the Achilles' tendon. When jumping, the loads can approach...

Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Of the more than 3 million people with breast cancer in the United Stated, about 10 percent carry an inherited...

Credit: ETH Zurich / Peter Rüegg The manufacture of cement, bricks, bathroom tiles and porcelain crockery normally requires a great deal of heat: a kiln...

Tanning devices cost the US $343.1 million a year in medical costs because of the skin cancers their use is associated with, according to a...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology In the modern society, energy generation heavily relies on fossil fuels, which, however, lead to environmental pollution and depletion of...

Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - The shift from film to digital technology appears to have improved cancer detection rates for...

Credit: IST Austria How do molecules rotate in a solvent? Answering this question is a complicated task since the molecular rotation is perturbed by a...

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Acid-base bifunctional catalysts exhibit wide applicability for atom-efficient functional group transformation, tandem reactions, and asymmetric synthesis. In ..

CANCER RESEARCH UK, Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the charity's commercial arm, and HitGen Ltd, a privately held biotech company focused on early drug discovery, announced...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Although it may come as no surprise to the Fresh Prince, kids think that parents just don't understand what it is like...

Credit: Courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio CLEMSON, South Carolina -- When the universe was young, a supermassive black hole --...

Credit: Princeton University Most strategies to combat climate change concentrate on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by substituting non-carbon energy sources for fossil fuels, but a...

Cholesterol-lowering drugs used alongside chemotherapy have no effect on treatment outcomes for lung cancer patients, according to a new study. Recent research into statins has...

The combined results of two ovarian cancer screening trials suggest that a personalized strategy involving frequent screening of high-risk women could improve the chance that...

Credit: Thomas Werner Pulling data from 180 different lines of fruit flies, researchers from Michigan Technological University compared resistance to a toxin found in mushrooms...