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Vibration may help heal chronic wounds
Wounds may heal more quickly if exposed to low-intensity vibration, report researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The finding, in mice, may hold...
New guidelines for skin abscesses caused by MRSA
Antibiotic-resistant infection is most common cause of skin infections in US
It has been more than 10 years since the clinical battle began with community-acquired...
To avoid very high pension ages, enable more to work
A new IIASA study shows that in most European countries, if labor force participation rates remain at current levels, by 2050 it would be...
Cold case: A linguistic mystery yields clues in Russian
MIT professor’s new book explains how the quirks of Russian numerals can tell us something deep about the universal properties of grammar.
When it comes...
Americans with and without children at home report similar life satisfaction
Americans aged 34 to 46 with children at home rate their life satisfaction at higher levels than those without children at home, according to...
Stormy Stars? NASA’s Spitzer Probes Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Swirling, stormy clouds may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs. New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that most brown...
Like salmon and sea turtles, mother sharks ‘home’ to their birthplace...
Research conducted in Bimini in The Bahamas spanning almost two decades shows that female lemon sharks that were born there returned 15 years later...
‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ quantum particles
Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as "spooky action at a distance," could be even spookier...
High school student discovers skeleton of baby dinosaur
A chance find by a high school student led to the youngest, smallest and most complete fossil skeleton yet known from the iconic tube-crested...
First harmful algal bloom species genome sequenced
The microscopic phytoplankton Aureococcus anophagefferens, which causes devastating brown tides, may be tiny but it's proven to be a fierce competitor.
In the first genome sequencing of a harmful algal bloom species, researchers found that Au...
