Brittle bone disease is a congenital disorder that results in fragile bones that break easily.   A new study in Nature Medicine showed that excessive activity of an important signaling protein…

A new discovery in the study of how lava dome volcanoes erupt may help predict how a volcanic eruption will behave. Volcanologists say a process called frictional melting plays a role in determining…

What ties together Lissajous knots, the harmonic polyrhythms of Theremin's rhythmicon, and a way of adding sounds to Pendulum waves? And do they have healing properties? And what is the musical…

A new study has created the first detailed look at global land surface warming trends over the last 100 years, illustrating precisely when and where different areas of the world started to warm up or…

Skilled motor movements of the sort tennis players employ while serving a tennis ball or pianists use in playing a concerto, require precise interactions between the motor cortex and the rest of the…

A protein that can make the failing hearts in aging mice appear more like those of young health mice similarly improves brain and skeletal muscle function in aging mice, according to two papers in…

Northwestern University researchers are the first to develop a new solar cell with good efficiency that uses tin instead of lead perovskite as the harvester of light. The low-cost, environmentally…

In 2009, President Barack Obama slightly eased restrictions on the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research that was first funded by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, but limited to…

Is "gaydar" real? Though scientists dismiss it as being in the same vein as psychics or palm reading, some papers have claimed it is legitimate and that people can make reliable predictions of…

How can you be both a necrophiliac and chaste? Welcome to the fascinating world of bacterial reproduction. Bacteria don't have sex the way humans think of sex - they can mix their genetic material in…

Mass outreach and awareness of bullying isn't doing much to stop bullying, it is mostly just teaching bullies what to watch out for and what buzzwords to use if they are accused. There's another good…

Chicago, IL (May 4, 2014) — Bariatric surgery, which is best known for its ability to help patients lose substantial weight, can also result in significant improvement in nonalcoholic fatty liver…

E-cigarettes are bad, marijuana is good, according to the latest culture war. E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that heat a liquid nicotine solution. The user inhales the vapor created and…

About 4,000 babies die in their sleep each year from due to suffocation and strangulation despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants always be placed on their backs to…

An analysis of more than 3,000,000 children and adolescents from diverse geographic regions of the United States found that the prevalence of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes increased significantly…

Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, within western Europe the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every other country in the…

Chronic constipation is a disorder that affects approximately 15 percent of the U.S. population. Symptoms can be burdensome, leading to a reduction in patients' quality of life.  An oral capsule…

ADHD stimulant medications are being shared among high school and college students with peers who don't have the condition, to try to improve their academic performance,  Two recent studies…

All games are good for kids whereas television isn't. And many touchscreen games are more like TV than board games, at least when it comes to verbal development. A recent study by pediatricians from…

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder defined by impairments in social interaction and communication and the presence of restrictive and repetitive behaviors. The exact causes…