NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager have provided the most comprehensive movie ever of a mysterious process at the heart of all…

If warming projections exceed estimates and rise by 1 degree Celsius, a new computer model finds that sea levels will rise about seven feet - over the next several thousand years. But that would…

Music decreases children's perceived sense of pain, say the authors of an article in JAMA Pediatrics.   The team conducted a clinical research trial of 42 children between the ages of 3 and 11…

Learned fear is a good thing. It keeps us from making risky, stupid decisions or falling over and over again into the same trap.  New research found that a missing brain protein may be the…

A new moon, designated S/2004 N 1, has been discovered orbiting the distant blue-green planet Neptune, the 14th known to be circling the giant planet. S/2004 N 1 is estimated to be no more than 12…

With the rise of unions and salaried employees, piece work went out of fashion in American business. Yet regulations and taxes and services have a cost, so more families than ever need to have both…

Chemotherapy, the treatment of cancer using chemotherapeutic agents such as cytotoxic antineoplastic drugs, is one of the primary treatments for cancer - but it has drawbacks. Some of the most…

University of California - Davis biochemists have shown for the first time that the ergodic theorem can be demonstrated by a collection of individual protein molecules; specifically, a protein that…

If you have ever used a GPS system to find a route to somewhere, you might have wondered on occasion how they can be so wrong - though it's often not the signal itself that is wrong. Yet sometimes a…

Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise, or at least better reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lyme disease leads the pack, with some 35,000 cases reported annually but in…