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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system.

Administering inhaled nitric oxide (NO) during surgery helps protect liver transplant patients from organ failure, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

A NASA safety review released Wednesday found no evidence to support claims that astronauts were impaired by alcohol when they flew in space.

Thousands of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers were still suffering serious mental health effects three years after the disaster, the Health Department reported today.

In this post, I am very pleased to release the results of one of my very first Web-based experiments. This was the experiment on visual attention alluded to a few days ago. Not long ago, a colleague presented results suggesting that trying to ignore an area in your visual field actually causes you to pay more attention to it — which even effects the perception of time…

When human heart muscle cells derived from embryonic stem cells are implanted into a rat after a heart attack, they can help rebuild the animal’s heart muscle and improve function of the organ, scientists report in the September issue of Nature Biotechnology.

Hearing and balance experts at Johns Hopkins report successful testing in animals of an electrical device that partly restores a damaged or impaired sense of balance.

Every mission that adds to the International Space Station brings the first-of-its-kind orbiting research facility one step closer to completion. But the STS-118 mission went one step further by also reaching out directly from space to the next generation of explorers.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced approval of a second test for the detection of West Nile virus (WNV) in blood and organs.

An important new study from the Journal of Consumer Research explains the “American obesity paradox”: the parallel rise in obesity rates and the popularity of healthier food. In a series of four studies, the researchers reveal that we over-generalize “healthy” claims. In fact, consumers chose beverages, side dishes, and desserts containing up to 131% more calories when the main dish was positioned as “healthy.”

Biotivia Bioceuticals Ltd is a leading manufacturer of Evidence-Based bioceuticals and and is registered with the US FDA as well as health authorities in the EU, Asia, Africa and Australia, New Zealand.

NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered ultra-hardy organisms collectively known as ‘extremophiles’. Some species of bacteria uncovered in a recent NASA study have never been detected anywhere else.

More than 3% of world population is infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Twenty to fifty percent recover spontaneously. Who are they?

Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online this week by the journal Social Science and Medicine. For each additional $100,000 in the median price of homes, UW researchers found, obesity rates in a given ZIP code dropped by 2 percent.

Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was doubted that this natural form of adhesion would ever be strong enough to hold the weight of real life Peter Parkers.

Whereas the Rewritable Holographic Memory for better data storage is hardly at the point, some already try to make it [...]

Men may be more willing than women to sacrifice achievement goals for a romantic relationship, according to a new study .

Researchers report that immunosuppressive risks associated with facial transplantation may be lower than thought, possibly making the procedure a safer option for people who have suffered severe facial injuries.