Pregnant women in Latin American countries were more likely to seek an abortion after receiving health alerts about Zika virus, according to a study co-authored by Princeton University researchers and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The researchers...
The crystal structure of Zika virus helicase: basis for antiviral drug design.Credit: Protein & Cell
A team led by researchers from Tianjin University (P.R. China) has solved the structure of the Zika virus helicase, which is a key target for...
Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ,...
The sapphire crystal on display at the University of Adelaide. Credit: University of Adelaide
The world's most precise clock has been fine-tuned to boost radar and GPS capabilities.
The Cryogenic Sapphire Oscillator, or Sapphire Clock, has been enhanced by researchers from...
Credit: Jack Dongarra, Report on the Sunway TaihuLight System, June 2016
A Chinese supercomputer has topped a list of the world's fastest computers for the seventh straight year—and for the first time the winner uses only Chinese-designed processors instead of...
Hepatitis C now kills more people in the United States than every other infectious disease combined, according to new government data.
New data shows hepatitis C killed nearly 20,000 people in 2014. Even more worrying for doctors is that an...
By stimulating the brains of Parkinson's patients using electrodes, neurologists at France's CHU Saint-Étienne University Hospital found that this surgical technique could improve motor performance by 70% and reduce medication-based treatment by 40 to 60%.
When medication is no longer...
Professor Eberhard Gischler and his doctoral researcher Dominik Schmitt with the last piece of the stalactite recovered from the Blue Hole by Jacques Cousteau in 1970.
Credit: Daniel Parwareschnia
In 1970, a team led by French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau recovered...
The cancer death rate dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 161.2 (per 100,000 population) in 2014, the latest year for which data was available to analyze. Image Credit: Flickr/stroudlisa
A steady decline over...
Experts say the only way to ensure your window blinds are safe for children is to remove all corded blinds and replace them with blinds like these that do not have operating or accessible internal cords.
Credit: Nationwide Children's Hospital
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A Netherlands train. Image Credit: Flickr/Sludge G
As of the first of January this year, all public transport trains in the Netherlands are being powered by wind energy, the national railway company NS said Tuesday, calling it a world first.
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