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Credit: Kelly Kindscher LAWRENCE -- In February 1805, during their Corps of Discovery Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered a purplish daisy prized by...

Credit: Medical University of South Carolina An over-the-counter antioxidant known as N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is showing early promise at promoting abstinence from or reduced use of...

Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Physical plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, together with solid, liquid, and gas, and can...

CHAPEL HILL, NC - A majority of adolescents in the United States report current cigar warning labels to be very believable, according to a new...

Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Each year, thousands of Canadian men with prostate cancer undergo biopsies to help their doctors better understand the progression and nature of...

Together with the National Emergency Supply Agency and the private sector, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed tailored solutions bringing improved cyber security...

Technological revolution means robots no longer are the song of the future. The Governor of the Bank of England predicts today that up to half...

Electronic-skin prototypes are stretchy, thin films that can sense temperature, pressure and even monitor blood oxygen or alcohol levels. But most of these devices are...

Credit: Intermountain Medical Center There's new hope for patients with liver disease who are waiting for a donor liver to become available for transplantation. Doctors...

Credit: Berthold et al. 2016 in Scientific Reports For bacteria, soil is difficult terrain, with dry areas and air spaces presenting insurmountable obstacles. In order...

Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Acinetobacter baumannii is the cause of difficult-to-treat infections in healthcare settings in Europe due to its increasing...

This report provides evidence that the solitary pre-sensitization to LPS is essential for the onset of Ni allergy by shifting the Th1/Th2 immune balance toward...

The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports. The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA's Antarctic collection...

The mystery of how Father Christmas can deliver presents to 700 million children in one night, fit down the chimney and arrive without being seen...

The latest recipients of Germany's most prestigious research funding prize have been announced. In Bonn today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German...