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Estrogen patch in newly postmenopausal women may reduce Alzheimer’s risk
Credit: Mayo Clinic
Can estrogen preserve brain function and decrease the risk of Alzheimer's disease when given early in menopause? Newly postmenopausal women who received...
Millennials and marrying young: Like mother, like child
Daughters and sons of mothers who tied the knot young are more likely to want to marry early too, but only if Mom stayed...
Red hair gene variation drives up skin cancer mutations
For the first time, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Leeds have proved that gene variants associated with red hair,...
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View
This color view from NASA's Juno spacecraft is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around...
Blue is an indicator of first star’s supernova explosions: More than 13 billion years...
Artist's conception of evolution of metal-poor and "metal-rich" supernovae at different phases and simulated light curves from shock breakout (ultraviolet) through plateau (red, green...
Pumping iron: Lighter weights just as effective as heavier weights to gain muscle, build...
New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights...
Black Hole Makes Material Wobble Around It
This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc precesses. "Precession" means that the...
Homo erectus walked as we do
The shapes of the fossil and modern footprints are nearly indistinguishable.Credit: Kevin Hatala / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Fossil bones and stone tools...
Scientists move closer to developing therapeutic window to the brain
This is an illustration showing how the "Window to the Brain" transparent skull implant created by UC Riverside researchers would work.Credit: UC Riverside
Researchers at...
DNA origami lights up a microscopic glowing Van Gogh
This reproduction of The Starry Night contains 65,536 glowing pixels and is just the width of a dime across.Credit: Paul Rothemund and Ashwin Gopinath/Caltech
Using...
How to stay anonymous online
Researchers at MIT and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have developed a new anonymity scheme that provides strong security guarantees but uses bandwidth...
