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Immune system functions best when it gets enough sleep. Seven or more hours of sleep is recommended for optimal health. Image credit: Flickr/Benjamin Watson Many...

Image Credit: Flickr/Ken and Nyetta During the last Ice Age, Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea formed a single landmass, called Sahul. It was a strange...

The new findings offer clues to the mystery of why otherwise healthy babies born prematurely face higher risk of developmental delays as they grow....

New research shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can help scientists in fields such as oncology and regenerative medicine control complex biological systems to reach...

Three representations of the 'needle pulse' beam, showing how the circular wave fronts collapse into a needle-like thin power distribution with no side lobes....

Stills from a simulation of the properties of one-dimensional boron shows the material that starts as a ribbon transforms into a single-atom chain, until...

Image Credit: Flickr/amy leonard If a piece of electronics isn't working, troubleshooting the problem often involves probing the flow of electricity through the various components...

Vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanobeams synthesized by Berkeley researchers show exotic electrical and thermal properties. In this false-color scanning electron microscopy image, thermal conductivity was...

Scientists have identified the important factors that have been lost and put them back into modern tomatoes. Image Credit: Flickr/beautifulcataya What's wrong with the...

This photograph shows injection of human iPS cells into a pig blastocyst. A laser beam (green circle with a red cross inside) was used...

People who are battling obesity face being stereotyped as lazy, incompetent, unattractive, lacking willpower, and to blame for their excess weight. The pain...