Bringing the real world into the brain scanner, researchers can now determine the action a…
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GOES satellites see ash still spewing from Chilean volcano
The Puyehue-Cordon volcano in Chile continues to spew ash that is still disrupting travel as…
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Girl’s Puberty Book Project provides an international model for promoting female health in Africa
The onset of puberty is a critical moment for reaching girls with health messages and…
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Possible way to make bladder cancer cells more susceptible to chemotherapy
Researchers have discovered a way of sensitizing muscle-invasive bladder cancer cells so that they succumb…
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Blocking molecular target could make more cancers treatable with PARP inhibitors
Researchers have demonstrated a molecular strategy they say could make a much larger variety of…
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Lung cancer screening program: Experts mobilize after national clinical trial shows CT scanning reduces deaths by 20 percent
Current and former heavy smokers can now be screened more effectively for lung cancer. Results…
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Money and mimicry
We rely on money in our day-to-day life and it is constantly in our minds….
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At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can lead to magnetism
At the smallest scales, magnetism may not work quite the way scientists expected, according to…
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Parent-adolescent cell phone conversations reveal a lot about the relationship
The nature of cell phone communication between a parent and adolescent child can affect the…
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Scientists identify order of mutations that lead to cancer
Scientists have begun to reveal the order of the genetic aberrations in individual cancers in…