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An analysis of electronic health records for 1.7 million Wisconsin patients revealed a variety of health problems newly associated with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism, and may help identify cases years in advance of the typical...

The current method of manufacturing carbon nanotubes--in essence rolled up sheets of graphene--is unable to allow complete control over their diameter, length and type. This problem has recently been solved for two of the three different types of nanotubes, but the third type, known...

Fossil discoveries often help answer long-standing questions about how our modern world came to be. However, sometimes they only deepen the mystery--as a recent discovery of four new species of ancient insects in British Columbia and Washington state is proving. The fossil species, recently discovered...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is "seeing double." Peering back 10 billion years into the universe's past. Hubble astronomers found a pair of quasars that are so close to each other they look like single object in ground-based telescopic photos, but not in Hubble’s crisp...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that animal DNA shed within the environment can be collected from the air. The proof-of-concept study, published in the journal PeerJ, opens up potential for new ecological, health and forensic applications of...