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Researchers investigate why some people experience frisson, or aesthetic chills, when listening to certain...
Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your spine? Or goosebumps tickle your arms...
Why Brush Your Teeth with toothpaste affect the taste of orange juice and other...
There's nothing like a fresh, tangy glass of orange juice to go with your morning oatmeal. But if you've just brushed your teeth, you...
Synthetic marijuana contaminated with brodifacoum – People Bleed
In March of this year, strange reports began to emerge: Synthetic pot was making people's eyes bleed. And what started out as a handful of...
Famed Renaissance painte Caravaggio Didn’t Die of Syphilis, but of Sepsis
Famed Renaissance painter Caravaggio didn't die of syphilis, as some historians long thought.
Instead, it appears that the talented Italian artist — who had a...
HIV : Father Transmits HIV to Newborn Son – How Did It Happen ?
After a 4-year-old boy in Portugal was diagnosed with HIV, the biggest question was how he got the infection.
His mother, for example, didn't have...
HowtoBeAMonkey.org gives the public a chance to sample the day-to-day activities of a capuchin...
Anew website called HowtoBeAMonkey.org provides a glimpse into life inside a Costa Rican tropical dry forest — both for the capuchin monkeys that call it home and...
A solar cell developed by UCLA Engineering researchers converts 22.4 percent of incoming energy...
Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film solar cell that generates more energy from sunlight than typical solar...
Getting the flu is never a pleasant experience, but for pregnant women, the illness...
Getting the flu is never a pleasant experience, but for pregnant women, the illness can be particularly bad.
That's because pregnant women are considered one...
More than 61000 ancient Maya structures – from large pyramids to single houses –...
More than 61,000 ancient Maya structures — from large pyramids to single houses — were lurking beneath the dense jungle canopy in Guatemala, revealing...
F-35A Price : First Time Price Below US$90 Million
The U.S. Department of Defense and Lockheed Martin have finalized an $11.5 billion contract for the production and delivery of 141 F-35 aircraft at the lowest...
Scientists have developed a human-friendly, ultra-flexible organic sensor powered by sunlight, which acts as...
Scientists have developed a human-friendly, ultra-flexible organic sensor powered by sunlight, which acts as a self-powered heart monitor.
Previously, they developed a flexible photovoltaic cell...
A new clinical trial will test whether an experimental vaccine can help patients’ immune...
Rush University Medical Center is part of a new clinical trial testing whether an experimental vaccine can help patients’ immune systems stop the spread...
A new study reports dopamine may have an impact on foraging behavior in ants
In an ant colony, few tasks are as important as gathering food.
But the desert heat can pose a challenge for an ant on...
Breast cancer screening : Israeli-European study examines efficacy of personalized screening
Research involving 85,000 women seeks to improve screening practices, which have not been shown to significantly reduce mortality rates
Illustrative: A woman getting a breast...
University of Colorado Cancer Center : Cancer hijacks the microbiome to glut itself on...
Cancer needs energy to drive its out-of-control growth.
It gets energy in the form of glucose, in fact consuming so much glucose that one method...
