Although not common, the short sleep gene allows the lucky few to enjoy 5 hours of sleep or less a night and still wake up feeling refreshed and ready for the day. As if that wasn't enough of a boon, ...

For numerous individuals with schizophrenia, living with the condition involves challenges, not only related to ...

Patients with TSH-secreting adenomas have lower bone mineral density than euthyroid individuals, but surgery lowers levels of ...

The Camera app is probably the most-used app on the iPhone. Here's everything you need to know to get started using the ...

Economic relations between the two countries are more fraught than ever: in early October, for the second time in just six months, the United States and China launched a trade war, imposing ...

Researchers have discovered that a gene called CHRNA3 plays a key role in determining alcohol sensitivity, helping explain why some people tolerate alcohol better than others.

Striped bass populations have been down in recent years and, as many East Coast states weigh future regulations, fall fishermen are anxious about striper runs right now. Anglers can still expect ...

As I mentioned in #6608 (comment), we probably want to include some other algorithms as well, such as the four Unicode normalization forms. The java.text.Normalizer class provides access to this ...

If you find yourself clenching your jaw during stressful situations or unknowingly grinding your teeth while you sleep only to wake up to headaches, you're not alone. It turns out that nearly 11 ...

Top row: In a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, lithium deficiency (right) dramatically increased amyloid beta deposits in the brain compared with mice that had normal physiological levels of ...

Abstract: It is challenging for active contour models (ACMs) to segment weak-edge and noisy images efficiently and accurately. To solve this problem, a novel ACM is proposed in this work. The proposed ...