Month: September 2019

In a society that equates beauty with quality, the perception that blemished produce is less…

An explosion is a complex event involving quickly changing temperatures, pressures and chemical concentrations. A…

A team of scientists has discovered a new possible pathway toward forming carbon structures in…

A three-year study has shown that there is no benefit in taking high doses of…

The language of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated…

Electric solid propellants are being explored for use in dual-mode rocket engines because they aren’t…

The realities of subsistence living in a region of Senegal hard hit by schistosomiasis make…

A new study found that viewing wealth and material possessions as a sign of success…

Providing a glimpse the hidden workings of evolution, a group of researchers have discovered that…

A phenomenon that is well known from chaos theory was observed in a material for…

Using advanced imaging techniques, researchers have mapped a previously uncharted region of the human genome…

Researchers have shed new light on how some geese can fly high for long periods…

Sexual selection may play a role in the evolution of lamprey pheromones. Read Original Article:…

The people of Yemen have been subject to “numerous” possible war crimes in recent years…

bmj;366/sep03_11/l5378/FAF1faNo Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) by the Australian artist Deborah Kelly…

Nigeria is a pressure cooker of internal conflicts and generalized violence that must be addressed…

The anti-cancer drug 5-fluorouracil (5FU) acts as a radiosensitizer: it is rapidly taken up into…

People who suffered a financial, housing-related, or job-related hardship as a result of the Great…

Allegations of torture and ill-treatment leading to the death of ethnic Rakhine men and boys…

Increased p53, the well-known tumor-suppressor protein, can predict whether malaria-infected children will develop fever or…

Researchers uncover why some organisms can eat anything — ‘generalists — and others have strict…

Prospective digital data storage devices rely on novel fundamental magnetic phenomena. The better we understand…

A new beaked whale species Berardius minimus, which has been long postulated by local whalers…

A previously unknown type of light wave has been discovered by researchers, based on the…

A consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon has been suspended from the UK medical register for…

Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm that predicts the outcome of chemical reactions with…

After patient RDS (identified only by his initials for privacy) suffered a stroke, he experienced…

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to another working week. We hope the extended respite —…

Vertex Pharmaceuticals announced Tuesday that it plans to acquire an ambitious startup for $950 million,…

Paul Hudson, who started as CEO of Sanofi Monday, believes there is “magic” to be…

It is hard to discern the true state of drug regulation from the outside, but…

WASHINGTON — Top pharmaceutical CEOs have targeted a small group of Republican senators with roughly…

At the dawn of the new millennium, Ting Han, a graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing,…

Science has spoken: Getting a border collie to stop herding city pigeons or a Doberman…

Scientists have shown how a quantum computer really works and have managed to simulate quantum…

The DNA of Scottish people still contains signs of the country’s ancient kingdoms, with many…

Sports scientists found that neither whey-protein based shakes nor milk-based formulas enhanced the rate of…

Mothers who are dissatisfied with their male partners spend more time talking to their infants…

Protein variations that result from the process of alternative splicing control the identity and function…

Researchers have found that the structure of Parkinson’s disease-associated protein aggregates can tell us, for…

DNA changes throughout a person’s life can significantly increase their susceptibility to heart conditions and…

A simple and sensitive urine test has produced a color change in urine to signal…

MP Norman Lamb, chair of the parliamentary Science and Technology Committee, has written to the…

New, lower-cost help may soon be on the way to help manage one of the…

New research has found that habitat loss is a major concern for hundreds of Australian…

An extreme case of ‘fussy’ or ‘picky’ eating caused a young patient’s blindness, according to…

Nearly one-third of patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) resume driving despite it being…

A consultant neurologist who helped draw up the government’s contingency plans for exiting the European…

If you want to achieve a goal, make sure you share your objective with the…

New research provides unique information on common disease incidence, hospitalization and death, and modifiable cardiovascular…