Researchers at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) have linked the abnormal of the genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to underlying links of schizophrenia, a disabling brain disorder that's estimated to affect anywhere between 200,000 to 3 million in the United States annually. Symptoms of th...
Three-year-old Alise Nipper of Cape Girardeau, Mo., was just playing with her friends after school on July 29 when a storm began. Lighting struck the pool the children were playing in and her mother, Jamie, spotted her daughter from afar, lifeless and at the bottom of the pool.
New findings published in the Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology contradict previous findings showing that adult blue crabs are more tolerant of low oxygen, otherwise known as "hypoxic" conditions.
Researchers form Tel Aviv University have realized the importance of trust in the effectiveness human-robot interaction process.
Scientists know that most cancer cells use glucose to fuel their uncontrolled growth, and now an international team of researchers has identified a protein which, if switched off, could stop the disease in its tracks.
Not only are high fat foods bad for you and low in nutritional value. They can hold dangerous food additives that may actually make you want to eat more.
Children's favorite food might not be fruit but rest-assured, when it comes to their favorite fruit, apple takes the cake. (Well, not exactly... but you know what we mean.)
United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory on the Big Island have raised the alert level from normal to advisory based on signs of unrest following a prolonged period of seismic activity.
Scientists may have discovered a new, mid-sized black hole, which is huge in the world of astronomy. Before now, researchers have only spotted black holes in two sizes: supermassive and tiny.
How hot is your city? Inner cities and suburbs have warmer temperatures than the surrounding countryside. Now, scientists have calculated these urban heat island intensities across the United States.
A high-fat diet could actually lead to overeating. Scientists have found that defective signaling in the brain can cause overeating of high fat foods in mice, leading to obesity.
Researchers may have found specimens of Africa's earliest known coelacanth. The creature is dated to be about 360 million years old, and was discovered in South Africa's Eastern Cape.
