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In order to determine where bed bug outbreaks are occurring and the best way to prevent and control infestations, entomologists examined 2,372 apartments in...

Aquilonifer spinosus, the Kite Runner, was an arthropod that lived about 430 million years ago. It carried its young in capsules or pouches tethered...

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researcher Lydia DonCarlos, PhD, is a member of an expert panel that’s making new recommendations on how...

The number with vision loss from high myopia is expected to increase seven-fold from 2000 to 2050, with myopia to become a leading cause...

Image Credit: Flickr/Abraham Williams A short nap can help relieve stress and bolster the immune systems of men who slept only two hours the previous...

On January 7th at 22:30 UTC, the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) celebrated its 20th anniversary with the math discovery of the new...

Obesity has long been associated with increased risk of colorectal cancer, but the link has never been understood. Now, a research team led by...

By combining the information from the Kinect depth frame in (a) with polarized photographs, MIT researchers reconstructed the 3-D surface shown in (c). Polarization...

New study analyzes 50 years of research on depression in medical residency More than one in four doctors in the early stages of their careers...

Pay it forward: Small favors can yield large returns, study finds Many people hold the door open for strangers. But what do people give in...

Watching a lot of TV and having a low physical activity level as a young adult were associated with worse cognitive function 25 years...