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Routine mammography--widely recommended for breast cancer screening--may also be a useful tool to identify women at risk for heart disease, potentiall...
Although years of drought and over-pumping have significantly depleted groundwater in Arizona and California, a new study shows the situation has an u...
Bees can use sophisticated signals to warn their nestmates about the level of danger from predators attacking foragers or the nest, according to a new...
A Sandia-led team has developed a way to make a magnetic material that could lead to lighter and smaller, cheaper and better-performing high-frequency...
You may have heard of crows, magpies, and mockingbirds recognizing individual people. These birds live among people, so it may be natural that they le...
For people struggling with obesity, logging calorie counts and other nutritional information at every meal is a proven way to lose weight. The techniq...
Calculations by scientists have found highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars called magnetars could explain the energy source behind two ex...
In December, negotiators at the Paris climate meeting adopted insurance as an instrument to aid climate adaptation. Earlier in the year, the leaders o...
According to a recent study, the size of a common ground-nesting bee - an important crop pollinator - has grown smaller in heavily farmed landscapes. ...