A new study has found that palladium-gold nanoparticles are excellent catalysts for cleaning polluted water - and can even convert biodiesel waste into valuable chemicals. In dozens of studies, Rice…

Signals from the immune system that help repel common parasites  like tapeworms, roundworms and other helminths can inadvertently cause a dormant viral infection to become active again, which…

You wouldn't think that mechanical force, like kicking a ball in the World Cup or embossing letters on a credit card, could process nanoparticles more subtly than the most advanced chemistry but a…

How bad is western music? Chimps in a study published by the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition preferred silence - yet they liked music from Africa. And music from…

You can't coddle kids or their brains too much. Without a little bit of frustration and stress, they would never learn how to talk or read or do science. Without some physical stress, we would all be…

Scientists working to make gene therapy a reality say they have figured out how to bypass a blood stem cell's natural defenses and efficiently insert disease-fighting genes into the cell's genome.…

Methane is a simple molecule, it consists of a carbon atom bound to four hydrogen atoms.  But it is the key component in the natural gas that has led to lower CO2 emissions in America and due to…

Chemists have constructed liquid crystals with optical properties that can be instantly and reversibly controlled by an external magnetic field and that paves the way for display applications using…

About 450,000 (12 percent) of the 3.9 million babies born each year in the United States are premature. Thanks to modern medicine, the number of preterm infants who survive has also surged in middle…

The sign of a bad gambler is the belief that they are on a winning streak, that luck is just going their way. Gambling is math and luck. If you can afford to keep doubling, you will win. And as long…

Melanoma is one of the worst, most metastatic cancers known today. Researchers from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered more than 40 genes that predict the level of…

Advocates for subsidized health care insist we face a black and white issue - the rich have health care and the poor do not. Yet poor people in developing nations are healthier than wealthier…

Surveys of 20 homeless, alcohol-dependent patients who had four or more annual visits to Bellevue Hospital's emergency department for two consecutive years determined that all began drinking in…

A small, drab and highly inconspicuous moth has been flitting nameless about its special niche among the middle elevations of one of the world's oldest mountain ranges, the southern Appalachian…

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major cause of disability and death worldwide. An estimated 8.6 million people fell ill and 1.3 million people died from the disease in 2012, according to the…

A new form of neurotransmission influences the long-lasting memory created by addictive drugs, like cocaine and opioids, and the subsequent craving for these drugs of abuse, according to a recent…

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but apparently the public will also happily accept movie tickets, cell phone minutes and discounts on air travel. A private South African health plan,…

As hormone levels change during the transition to menopause, the quality of a woman's cholesterol carriers degrades, leaving her at greater risk for heart disease, according to researchers at the…

A paper in Scientific Reports posits a new cause of the ice age that covered large parts of the Northern Hemisphere 2.6 million years ago. The study found a previously unknown mechanism by which the…

In social psychology, it's no surprise to see conflicting, counter-intuitive results. That's possible because studies are primarily based on surveys. So one psychologist will claim conservatives are…