If you’re a lung or colorectal cancer patient, what’s in your wallet could determine your level of suffering and quality of life during treatment, according to a new study.

Supporting instructors of massive open online courses — MOOCs — may be just as important to the creation of long-term, successful courses as attracting and supporting students, according to a group of researchers.

Researchers have created a hydrogel scaffold that replicates the environment found within the human breast. The scaffold supports the growth of human mammary tissue from patient-derived cells and can be used to study normal breast development as well as breast cancer initiation and progression.

How do privacy concerns affect how health data is shared? Research explores privacy laws and their effect on health information exchanges in the United States.

On 25 May 2014, a rain-on-snow–induced rock avalanche occurred in the West Salt Creek valley on the northern flank of Grand Mesa in western Colorado (United States). The avalanche mobilized from a preexisting rock slide in the Green River Formation and traveled 4.6 km down the confined valley, killing three people.

Researchers have found one of the oldest and most detailed fossils of the central nervous system yet identified, from a crustacean-like animal that lived more than 500 million years ago. The fossil, from southern China, has been so well preserved that individual nerves are visible, the first time this level of detail has been observed […]

New articles developed in silico models for the estimation of potential mutagenicity of chemicals from their structure without the input of any other experimental data.

A cell membrane transporter — CarT — maintains vision in the fruit fly Drosophila by recycling the neurotransmitter histamine in the brain, scientists have discovered.