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Thousands of Americans die each year during a dangerous two-minute procedure to insert a breathing tube.
Northwestern University researchers are developing a predictive model to help NASA anticipate conflicts and communication breakdowns among crew members and head off problems that could make or break the Mission to Mars.
While the polyester leisure suit was a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers like nylon are still around and are a major contributor to the microplastics load in the environment, according to a Penn State materials scientist, who suggests switching to biosynthetic fibers to solve this ...
Physicists at McMaster University have for the first time identified a simple mechanism used by potentially deadly bacteria to fend off antibiotics, a discovery which is providing new insights into how germs adapt and behave at a level of detail never seen before.
Takashi D. Y. Kozai's lab examines the use of the photoelectric effect on untethered implanted devices to mitigate the damage done by current implant technology
Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky.
Offering compensation can be an important tactic to attract potential participants for enrollment in research studies, but it might come at a cost. A new study conducted by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that up to 23 percent of respondents lie...
Catch-up vaccination may be effective means for controlling epidemics in big cities with large migrant populations
Cellular barcoding has been used to tag, track and pinpoint cells responsible for the spread of breast cancer
Task sharing in Sierra Leone -- teaching emergency surgery to health officers -- can help improve healthcare in a country with few doctors
Queen Mary University of London has led a study which describes the first direct measurement of how energy is transferred from the chaotic electromagnetic fields in space to the particles that make up the solar wind, leading to the heating of interplanetary space.
