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Cutting back up to 25 percent of your calories per day helps slow your metabolism and reduce free radicals that cause cell damage and aging. But would you want to?

You May Live Longer By Severely Restricting Calories, Scientists Say

11:38am April 02, 2018

Scientists have long been fascinated with whether dramatically restricting the amount of food we eat can help us live longer. New research suggests it might, but the question is, is it worth it?

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Kit Parker and his team have developed wound dressings that use incredibly thin fibers to speed healing and reduce scarring.

Failure To Save A Child In Wartime Inspires Wound-Healing Tech

5:06am April 02, 2018

by Jon Hamilton

As a soldier, Kit Parker saw horrific injuries. As a scientist, he led an effort to create high-tech dressings that speed healing and reduce scarring.

Visitors sit beside a model of China's Tiangong-1 space station in 2010, at the 8th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong Province. As forecast, China's defunct Tiangong 1 space station re-entered Ea

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Chinese Space Lab Crashes To Earth

10:49pm April 01, 2018

by Camila Domonoske

Tiangong-1, an abandoned Chinese orbiting lab, re-entered the atmosphere over the South Pacific Ocean Sunday evening, fulfilling predictions by the European Space Agency.

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The Pattern Problem

11:48am March 30, 2018

Are we destined to repeat our patterns, or do we generally stray in surprising directions?

A Tesla Model S electric vehicle is charged at a car dealership in Shanghai, China, in March 2015.

U.S. Utilities Look To Electric Cars As Their Savior Amid Decline In Demand

4:26pm March 29, 2018

by Samantha Raphelson

After years of rising demand, utility companies are staring down a projected decline in the demand for electricity. They say the budding electric car industry could save them.

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The female Anopheles mosquito is a spreader of malaria.

What If A Drug Could Make Your Blood Deadly To Mosquitoes?

4:13pm March 29, 2018

by Nadia Whitehead

That's what researchers wondered as they look at new ways to stop the spread of malaria. A new study reports on the impact of ivermectin on skeeters.

The bacterium that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria Gonorrhoeae, has become resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics.

Gonorrhea Strain Thwarts 2 Main Drugs, Raising Concerns It's Becoming Untreatable

1:50pm March 29, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

This is the latest in a long history of gonorrhea developing resistance to antibiotics. It's the first global report of gonorrhea that is resistant to the two main drugs used to treat it.

A document developed by a New York end-of-life agency permits people who want to avoid the ravages of advanced dementia to make their final wishes known — while they still have the ability to do so. One version requests that all food and fluids be withh

'Aggressive' Advance Directive Permits Halting Food And Water In Severe Dementia

1:19pm March 29, 2018

by JoNel Aleccia

Supporters call this right-to-die proposal the strongest move yet to document a person's advance wishes in cases of severe dementia. Critics say it would deny basic care to society's most vulnerable.

Mady Ohlman, who lives near Boston and has been sober for more than four years, says many drug users hit a point when the disease and the pursuit of illegal drugs crushes the will to live.

How Many Opioid Overdoses Are Suicides?

4:25pm March 28, 2018

by Martha Bebinger

Opioid overdoses and related deaths are still climbing, according to U.S. statistics. Teasing out which overdoses are intentional can be hard, but is important for treatment, doctors say.

The classroom is the best place to start discussions between scientists and humanists about many issues facing our world, says professor Marcelo Gleiser.

Teaching And Learning At The Boundaries Of 2 Cultures

9:41am March 28, 2018

by Marcelo Gleiser

We all stand to lose from the gulf between the sciences and the humanities, and the classroom is the ideal place for conversations between these two cultures to unfold, says professor Marcelo Gleiser.