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Malin Stavridis at work, looking for reindeer to collect fresh reindeer droppings. Note the rifle on her backpack. It's required equipment, along with a flare gun, to scare away any polar bears that ...

Nancy L. Lewis, MD, MBS, FACP, Named New Chief Scientific Officer for National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Leanr more at NCCN.org.

So you want to study contaminants in Svalbard reindeer? Then you have to be willing to find and collect reindeer poop.

The Paranal solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET) will collect sunlight and redirect it to ESO’s ESPRESSO instrument, which will obtain highly detailed spectra of both the entire Sun and specific regions ...

Researchers combined their expertise in materials science and and origami to create durable, programmable robot that moves without a motor. (The image’s speed is increased 40 times from the original.) ...

UAB researchers discover the mechanism by which neurofibrillary tangles spread through the brain of Alzheimer’s patients is ...

A comprehensive new cell atlas of the maternal-fetal interface finds new cell types that have implications for preterm birth, preeclampsia, miscarriage, and cannabis use in pregnancy. Researchers used ...

The American Society of Hematology (ASH) and the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) released comprehensive clinical practice guidelines on anticoagulant prophylaxis in ...

A large, long-term study led by Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University investigators suggests that some medications commonly prescribed to treat irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)—including ...

Scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that several psychedelic drugs – including psilocybin, LSD, mescaline, DMT and ayahuasca – produce a common pattern of brain activity despite their ...