Robert Croft, who has died aged 91, was a US Navy diving instructor whose record-breaking feats of deep diving in the 1960s ...

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The University of Akron's BETA Lab received a grant from the American Heart Association to help develop new, less invasive heart valve implants.

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We often view death as a light being switched off suddenly. The moment a human’s pulse stops, we assume the person is gone. But new research by the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...

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Scientists say the dream of settling the Red Planet comes with major health risks that we are only beginning to understand.

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