Each year, nearly 600,000 children die from severe, dehydrating diarrhea and millions more are hospitalized. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) may be the first enteric illness encountered by…

Country music's soaring popularity in the Northeast isn't so much a novelty as it is a rebirth. Image: US Navy By Clifford Murphy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This past June, radio…

A team of astronomers recently reported discovering a pulsating star that appears to shine with the energy of 10 million suns. A pulsar is a type of rotating neutron star that emits a bright beam of…

There are four factors to making the perfect cup of coffee. Credit: Andy Ciordia/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND By Don Brushett It’s hard to get a bad coffee these days. Plenty of baristas have fine-tuned the…

The Large Hadron Collider at the CERN laboratories in Geneva is currently in shutdown, finalizing the upgrades that will allow it to restart next year at the  centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV -…

How much risk can health workers be asked to take on? Mike Segar/Reuters By Catherine Womack, Bridgewater State University Taking care of sick people has always involved personal risk. From plague…

A new study has found that  age-related memory decline in healthy older adults can be reversed by dietary cocoa flavanols, the naturally occurring bioactives found in cocoa. As people age, they…

The expanding thermonuclear fireball of a nova is a staple of movies and fiction but last year one was witnessed in the constellation Delphinus with unprecedented clarity. The observations produced…

Antibiotics are a part of nature, as is antibiotic resistance. A study on how a powerful antibiotic agent gets made in nature solved a decades-old mystery and opens up new avenues of research into…

Get ready for a very close encounter as a house-sized asteroid 2014 UF56 will pass between the Earth and the Moon on Monday. The 15 meter wide space rock will miss our planet at a distance of about…

Though the Centers for Disease Control has been a little confused about dealing with Ebola, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness has guidelines for volunteers who want to help.  Some…

Scientists have documented the rapid evolution of a native lizard species as a result of pressure from an invading lizard species introduced from Cuba.  After contact with the invasive species,…

On Oct. 25, 2014, the sun emitted its fifth substantial flare since Oct. 19. This flare was classified as an X1-class flare and it was a long duration event, beginning at 12:55 pm EDT, peaking at 1…

A family-focused intervention program for middle-school Mexican-American children leads to fewer drop-out rates and lower rates of alcohol and illegal drug use. .  High-school aged youth that…

A recent survey found that 50% of final year veterinary students in the UK don't feel confident discussing dental problems or doing oral cavity examinations of small pets. Most vets just dread the…

A recent study shows plants may absorb more carbon than we thought. Jason Samfield/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Pep Canadell, CSIRO Through burning fossil fuels, humans are rapidly driving up levels of…

When obese children with asthma run out of breath it could be due to poor physical health related to weight, yet it is considered asthma often enough that there could be high and unnecessary use of…

Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s?  State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors behind on Germany’s Autobahn. Mercedes is still here today,…

Three years ago, a patient at Sahlgrenska University Hospital received a blood vessel transplant grown from her own stem cells. Two other transplants were performed in 2012. The patients, two young…

In a new study, researchers have shown that shutting off the blood supply to an arm or leg before cardiac surgery protects the heart during the operation. The research group wanted to see how the…