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University of British Columbia researchers are offering the first compelling evidence to explain regular tremors under Vancouver Island.

NASA has released the Spacecraft Crew Survival Integrated Investigation Team report, which includes 30 recommendations to improve spacecraft design and crew safety.

In a finding that could significantly influence the way type 1 diabetes is treated, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have developed a technique for transplanting insulin-producing pancreatic cells that causes only a minimal immune response in recipients.

Feel like you never have enough time? Well, today is your lucky day. Because of slowing in the earth’s rotation, there will be an extra second added to the clock tonight at midnight UTC time. The time recorded will be 23:59:60. Per the United States Naval Observatory:

Spell-checkers: can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Can new technology fix their problems?

An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky.

Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications, according to a new study.

The talk of the world is – bio diversity, Eco Safe System, Global Warming and all the related. At the other end the techno world is growing with its devices and components at a rapid measure and meaning, spreading its wings through even the tiny sub industries. How to achieve the said Eco Friendly and avoid Global Warming …

When researchers look inside human cancer cells for the whereabouts of an important tumor-suppressor, they often catch the protein playing hooky, lolling around in cellular broth instead of muscling its way out to the cells’ membranes and foiling cancer growth. This phenomenon of delinquency puzzled scientists for a long time — until a cell biologist felt compelled to genetically grab the protein by the tail and then watched as it got back to work at tamping down disease.

Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered that a molecule implicated in leukemia and lung cancer is also important in muscle repair and in a muscle cancer that strikes mainly children.

Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs to be released in a controlled fashion.

A new study by University of Miami professor of Psychology Michael McCullough finds that religious people have more self-control than do their less religious counterparts. These findings imply that religious people may be better at pursuing and achieving long-term goals that are important to them and their religious groups.

UC Davis Cancer Center researchers report the discovery of a molecule that targets glioblastoma, a highly deadly form of cancer.

Indulgence in a high-fat diet can not only lead to overweight because of excessive calorie intake, but also can affect the balance of circadian rhythms.

Research reveals that novelty seekers have less of a particular type of dopamine receptor, which may lead them to seek out novel and exciting experiences–such as spending lavishly, taking risks and partying like there’s no tomorrow.

By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the “Spanish flu” — a virus that killed between 20 and 50 million people 90 years ago in history’s most devastating outbreak of infectious disease — researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the extraordinary virulence of the 1918 virus.

Peering at structures only atoms across, researchers have identified the clockwork that drives a powerful virus nanomotor.

Moderate drinkers often have lower risks of Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive loss, according to researchers who reviewed 44 studies.

In more than half of the studies, published since the 1990s, moderate drinkers of wine, beer and liquor had lower dementia risks than nondrinkers. In only a few studies were there increased risks.

Scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have succeeded in reversing brain birth defects in animal models, using stem cells to replace defective brain cells.

In a recent study, a research team found that Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations, rather than the consequences of climate change.