Opioids After Surgery: Which Patients Don't Stop When They Should
The first time many patients in the United States take prescription opioid painkillers is following surgery.
The first time many patients in the United States take prescription opioid painkillers is following surgery.
Jupiter is famous for its Great Red Spot, a storm twice the diameter of Earth that rages on the gas giant's surface. Now, researchers have found that it has a second great spot, almost as large.
James Hansen, the "father of climate change awareness," wants the same carbon fee–and-dividend strategy proposed by Republicans.
A study of three Viking swords has found that, as fearsome as these seafaring people were, these specific "weapons" were probably not sturdy enough for battle or raiding, and were likely decorative.
The proportion of animals that glow is the same at the surface as it is in the inky depths.
In the late 1800s, France hosted the world's first competitive motor race, and now, the country will set the stage for the next revolution in motor sports: the first-ever "nanocar" race.
A 245-million-year-old creature with crocodilian-like legs is an early relative of dinosaurs.
Marathons are exciting for runners and spectators alike, but for people who simply need to get to the hospital on a race day, the events may be hazardous.
Three years after the trans fat ban went into effect, hospital admissions for heart attacks and strokes started dropping.
Men's shaving brushes made from animal hair were once linked with cases of anthrax around the time of World War I, according to a new report.
A new species of pistol shrimp doesn't live on the dark side of the moon, nor is it a lost soul swimming in a fishbowl.
Why use satellites to study Earth's climate? Researchers leading a new mission explain how images from space will help them analyze which parts of the Americas soak up the most carbon.
No joke: a functioning flying car will be revealed this month.
Before the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, spiky stegosaurus and other dinosaurs roamed the Earth, their early cousins — creatures that were surprisingly crocodile-like — trod through what is now modern-day Tanzania, a new study reports.
About 245 million years ago, a strange creature walked around what was then the supercontinent Pangaea.
“Patterns of human settlement across our planet,” can be seen from nighttime views of Earth from Space, according to NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center.
How does fire-gilding work? And why is it so dangerous?
Ants save each other for the good of the colony.
When an ant becomes injured in a hunting raid, its comrades pick it up and carry it home to convalesce.