Month: January 2018

Credit: Natural Capital Project Why does some research lead to changes in public policy, while other studies of equal quality ...

Credit: IOS Press Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 21, 2017 – Marking the 200th anniversary of James Parkinson's first published description ...

DURHAM, N.C. – The process cells use to secrete chemicals also appears to be the way to clear urinary tract ...

The Russian insect researcher Oleg Kosterin and his Japanese colleague Naoto Yokoi have traced the dragonfly in a remote mountainous ...

Hitting a plateau in strength training? The answer to overcoming it might lie in accentuated eccentric loading (AEL). Many experienced ...

Credit: Jennifer Bagwell, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. — Duke researchers have discovered a unique repair mechanism in the developing backbone ...

Credit: Duke Clinical Research Institute DURHAM, N.C. — When patients suffer from atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat, they are at ...

Credit: Carole Ober, University of Chicago The Clinical Research Forum, a national organization of senior researchers and thought leaders from ...

Credit: Adam Wilson BUFFALO, N.Y. — South Africa's Cape Floristic Region is one of the richest repositories of plant life ...

BETHESDA, MD–There are as many motives as there are undergraduates taking introductory science courses, but if you look closely at ...

Scientists at USC have developed a new tool to modify brain activity and memory in targeted ways, without the help ...

Credit: Unsplash EAST LANSING, Mich. – Discrimination not only harms the health and well-being of the victim, but the victim's ...

Credit: The Physiological Society New research has highlighted the potential gender gap in stress, with women reporting higher stress from ...

Cambridge, UK, 9 November 2015 – Researchers at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Wellcome Trust- Medical Research Council ...

All neurons in our brain are wired via a micron-sized connection unit called synapse, and each synapse contains a layer ...

Credit: TDY Kozai/BionicLab.ORG PITTSBURGH (January 8, 2018) … Implanted devices send targeted electrical stimulation to the nervous system to interfere ...

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Feb. 9, 2017) – It's been known for decades that a bacterial infection can raise ...

Credit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ – January 5, 2018. Despite December's lag in U.S. job numbers, Americans with disabilities ...

Credit: University of Oklahoma A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather ...

Credit: J. William Schopf/UCLA Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life A new analysis of the ...