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Researchers designed and tested several types of optical sensors that could be placed at the tip of an epidural needle and determined that the...

Researchers at MIT have developed a new way of making windows that can switch from transparent to opaque using electrochromic materials. Once the glass...

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) who receive frozen embryos during in vitro fertilization have safer and more successful pregnancies than those who get...

Credit: © newjon / Flickr When it comes to setting organizational and personal goals, making a backup plan has been seen as a sensible way...

Commonly touted as "good cholesterol" for helping to reduce risk of stroke and heart attack, both high and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL)...

Humans have evolved a disproportionately large brain as a result of sizing each other up in large cooperative social groups, researchers have proposed. A team...

76 different species included in the miBC collection, including 15 hitherto unknown taxa. Credit: Nature Microbiology Mouse models are extensively used in pharmaceutical and medical...

A Greenland shark slowly swimming away from the zodiac, returning to the deep and cold waters of the Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland. The...

Heliofungia behaviour as it's bleaching, captured by Brett Lewis and Dr Luke Nothdurft. Credit: Queensland University of Technology Coral researchers have for the first time...

Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Smart devices that wake up with voice commands have gained popularity in recent years, and now researchers at Georgia Institute...

A bull's head in a fresco from Zippori, dating from the early Second Century CE.Credit: Photo: G. Laron A team from the Hebrew University of...