Month: December 2016

Credit: Imaging CoE Every 18 seconds someone dies from tuberculosis (TB). It is the world's most deadly infectious disease. Mycobacterium ...

Credit: UBC New moms are increasingly using expressed breast milk (either pumped or expressed by hand) instead of directly breastfeeding ...

The hip fracture risk factors are generally similar among those with and without Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study ...

Credit: (Kyoto University, Takahashi/Tadokoro) Kyoto, Japan -- With a little help from chickens and video cameras, scientists have captured live ...

Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller ...

Credit: Kiyonobu Nagaya, Department of Physics, Kyoto University Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University are investigating novel ways by which electrons ...

Credit: NITech Nagoya, Japan--Glasses are amorphous (non-crystalline) solids that are widely used in everyday life and in technological instruments. It ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...

Credit: American Chemical Society Bisphenol-A (BPA), parabens and antimicrobials are widely used in personal care products and plastics. The U.S. ...

Credit: American Chemical Society Alzheimer's disease affects more than 35 million people, a number that is expected to increase in ...

Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept study of its kind, Johns Hopkins researchers ...

The sweet potato pie you eat during the holidays might not be good for your waistline, but according to a ...

This map of dark matter in the Universe was obtained from data from the KiDS survey, using the VLT Survey ...

TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2016 - As many as 19 per cent of Ontario adults aged 18 to 29 experience moderate ...

LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 07 December, 2016 - Patients wait an average of four months before seeking a cancer diagnosis, researchers report at ...

Credit: R. Clarke How do seabirds share habitat when food is limited? In the case of frigatebirds, size differences drive ...

ANN ARBOR --The long-term threat of getting a pink slip is giving some older workers the blues. Employees believing for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (December 7, 2016)--Death and taxes have long been said to be the only two things guaranteed in life. ...

Researchers have developed an artificial structure that mimics the cell membrane, which can switch on immune cells to attack and ...

Major scientific breakthrough research has discovered new materials offering an alternative to battery power and proven to be between 1,000-10,000 ...