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Scientists uncover how thalidomide produced birth defects after 60 years
More than 60 years after the drug thalidomide caused birth defects in thousands of children whose mothers took the drug while pregnant, scientists at...
Syria : Assad’s forces retake Golan Heights frontier with Israel
The Syrian government regained control of the frontier with the Israel’s Golan Heights for the first time in seven years on Monday, after Islamic...
Women who make hateful remarks on social media are more likely to be judged...
Women who make hateful remarks on social media are likely to be judged more severely than men who make the same comments.
This is...
Eating high fibre foods may reduce the effects of stress on our gut and...
Eating high fibre foods may reduce the effects of stress on our gut and behaviour, according to new research published in The Journal of...
Globe warms up : Heatwave deaths will rise steadily by 2080
If people cannot adapt to future climate temperatures, deaths caused by severe heatwaves will increase dramatically in tropical and subtropical regions, followed closely by...
A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists provides the first evidence of...
A new study led by Carnegie Mellon University neuroscientists provides the first evidence of how the human brain recovers the ability to function after...
Surgical mesh implants, often used for hernia or gynecological repair, may be the reason...
"In my practice, I studied 40 patients who had mesh implants and found that almost all of them had symptoms such as chronic fatigue,...
Dixons Carphone Data Breach Affects 10 Million Customers
Dixons Carphone's 2017 data breach was worse than initially anticipated.
In an announcement on Monday, Dixons Carphone, one of the largest consumer electronics and telecommunication...
Liver cancer : The newly discovered ‘switch’ controls the activity of two proteins and...
Imperial researchers have found a new cell mechanism that could be used to target tumours in the future.
The newly discovered 'switch' controls the activity...
The bladder is a master at self-repair – When damaged by infection or injury,...
The bladder is a master at self-repair.
When damaged by infection or injury, the organ can mend itself quickly, calling upon specialized cells in its...
The strategy used by the Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells has been...
The strategy used by the Oropouche virus to replicate in human cells has been described for the first time by researchers at the University...
A new study reports patients with major depressive disorder and treatment resistant depression have...
Depression is not a single disease.
The term refers to a cluster of feelings and behaviors, brought on by a variety of underlying causes....
Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3-D printing, can be used to manufacture the next...
Additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3-D printing, can be used to manufacture porous electrodes for lithium-ion batteries—but because of the nature of the manufacturing...
Just two weeks without activity can trigger diabetic symptoms in vulnerable patients
Just two weeks without much activity can have a dramatic impact on health from which it is difficult to recover, according to researchers who...
New solar energy research from Arizona State University demonstrates that silicon-based will become increasingly...
New solar energy research from Arizona State University demonstrates that silicon-based, tandem photovoltaic modules, which convert sunlight to electricity with higher efficiency than present...
