Month: May 2011

Medicine and technology are converging in patient care at a faster pace than most people…

Despite being used for several decades, test-based incentives have not consistently generated positive effects on…

People suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD — a severe mental illness characterized by…

Scientists have developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels…

The moon has much more water than previously thought, a scientific team has discovered. First-time…

New research casts doubt on a widely publicized study that concluded that a bacterial bloom…

Thirty-eight million years ago, tropical jungles thrived in what are now the cornfields of the…

Cells, like ordinary households, produce “garbage” – debris and dysfunctional elements – that need disposal….

Coastal communities hard hit by ocean acidification hotspots have more options than they may realize,…

Students who struggle to learn mathematics may have a neurocognitive disorder that inhibits the acquisition…