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The age at which young women experience their first menstrual bleeding is linked to...
The age at which young women experience their first menstrual bleeding is linked to the age at which their sons start puberty, according to...
Mistakes in “proofreading” the genetic code of retinal cells is the cause of a...
Mistakes in "proofreading" the genetic code of retinal cells is the cause of a form of inherited blindness, retinitis pigmentosa (RP) caused by mutations...
Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for...
Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard...
A study of gut microbes from more than 400 children points to how the...
A study of gut microbes from more than 400 children points to how the microbiome behaves in this inflammatory bowel disease.
The gastrointestinal tract hosts...
REPORT : EMP – the spark that will extinguish the world
The evolution of defense technologies and information technology is bringing to the extreme the opposite socio-political fronts.
The international powers have begun to clash both...
Scientists for the first time succeeded in growing three-dimensional salivary gland tissue that produces...
A research group led by scientists from Showa University and the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have, for the first time,...
Decongestants should not be given to children under 6
Decongestants should not be given to children under 6—and given with caution in children under 12—as there is no evidence that they alleviate symptoms...
PIEZO1 gene may be responsible for tactile allodynia, a reaction to injury that makes...
Ever wonder why things that normally feel gentle, like putting on soft shirts, are painful after a sunburn?
In a study of four patients...
Depression : Why Some Are More Prone Than Others ?
Depression is notoriously hard to study, but what if you could switch depression on and off and look at the biological differences between when...
Binge drinking leads to more instances of drinking under stress and when anxious in...
Researchers with the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System and Oregon Health & Sciences University found that a history of binge drinking made male...
Researchers found more muscular men tend to prefer political attitudes that favor inequality
Men with large upper-bodies have a tendency to favour inequality in society and a limited redistribution of resources.
This is the conclusion drawn by...
Huge Iceberg, 115 square miles, Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier
A newly discovered long and craggy rift is splintering across West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier, satellite images show.
The nearly 19-mile-long (30 kilometers) rift started in the middle...
Singapore – New York : the world’s longest flight
Passengers were getting ready to board the world's longest flight on Thursday—a marathon 19 hours in the air between Singapore and New York.
Two pilots,...
Lumenis, Israel-based firm, developed the world’s first holmium surgical laser to blast the urinary...
Anyone who has had urinary stones can know the acute pain — sometimes compared to that of women in labor — that can accompany...
Pneumonia-causing bacteria can be spread through picking and rubbing the nose
Pneumonia-causing bacteria can be spread through picking and rubbing the nose, according to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal.
Pneumococcus, the bacteria...
