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For patients with early-stage breast cancer, robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy (rNSM) is as safe and effective as open NSM, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons, ...

An international team of Earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, ...

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.

It turns out that your body is much more truthful about what is and isn't fair than you might imagine. The rate at which we make physical movements is able to reveal whether our motives are self-interested or retaliatory.

Thanks to improved treatments, many people with asthma live good lives. However, for a smaller group—those with severe asthma—the picture is different. A new study within the Nordic research collaboration NORDSTAR, based ...

Positive psychology interventions such as mindfulness, gratitude journaling, and optimism training can consistently improve blood pressure, inflammation markers, and other cardiovascular disease risk factors within a matter ...

A team of researchers at Rice University has engineered a new version of a well-known multiferroic that exhibits orders of magnitude higher performance at room temperature than its parent material. The study, published in ...

Intimacy doesn't disappear in long-term care, but clear guidance on how to support it often does. A new paper outlines a practical framework for how organizations can move from uncertainty and inconsistency to a structured, ...

In thermodynamics, an "adiabatic process" is a system change that transfers no heat in or out of the system. Any and all energy change in that system are therefore accomplished by doing work on the system, work being action ...

Legumes like soybeans, alfalfa, peas, beans, peanuts and many more have a remarkable ability: They can partner with soil bacteria called rhizobia to capture nitrogen from the air in a biological process called nitrogen fixation. ...

In a novel attempt to improve how large language models learn and make them more capable and energy-efficient, Stevens Institute of Technology researchers have devised an algorithm that improves AI data sharing, boosts performance ...

A popular device for restricting cell phone use in middle and high schools is effective at achieving that aim, leading to short-term disruption but ultimately positive effects on student well-being, new research finds. The ...