Survivors of child abuse twice as likely to die young
Credit: University of South Australia Globally the statistics are daunting. Across countries and communities between 15 and 50 per cent ...
Creating a ground plan for stonefly evolution
Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba find that differences in egg structure among stonefly species can provide insight into ...
Sights set on curbing gun crime
Sub-culture and supply fuel drug-related violence: studyCredit: Flinders University A community or sub-culture encouraging young men's exposure and obsession with ...
Do tumors stiff-arm the immune system?
An old dog with new tricksCredit: Alan Herbert In a paper just published in the Journal for the Immunotherapy of ...
Costs, COVID-19 risk and delays top older adults’ concerns about seeking emergency care
Findings could help hospitals improve emergency department care and follow-up for people aged 50 to 80Credit: University of Michigan Even ...
COVID-19 preprint data rapidly influenced critical care practice
Credit: ATS Dec. 15, 2020-- In a new research letter published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of ...
Wireless, ultra-thin and battery-free strain sensors that are 10 times more sensitive
Credit: National University of Singapore A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Assistant Professor Chen ...
Earable computing: A new research area in the making
Credit: Romit Roy Choudhury, The Grainger College of Engineering CSL's Systems and Networking Research Group (SyNRG) is defining a new ...
Proteins enable crop-infecting fungi to ‘smell’ food
Humans use same proteins to smell, taste, and seeCredit: Vincent Wu/JGI New research shows the same proteins that enable human ...
Researchers use origami to solve space travel challenge
Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. -- WSU researchers have used the ancient Japanese art of paper folding to possibly solve a ...
Structural racism severely impacts the health of foreign-born Blacks and Latinx
New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the magnitude of the disparities in health of racial/ethnic minorities ...
Purdue researchers uncover blind spots at the intersection of AI and neuroscience
Findings debunk dozens of prominent published papers claiming to read minds with EEGCredit: Chris Adam/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - ...
What makes human intelligence exceptional? The answer may be hidden inside this game
Scientists launch hexxed - a free mobile game designed to map human intelligence across the globeCredit: Marta Correia. The Champalimaud ...
Recovery of an endangered Caribbean coral from parrotfish predation
Coral tissue loss was driven by a few exceptionally large predation scars, but 87% of scars were small and likely ...
Researchers assess regenerative patch for spina bifida defect
Credit: Ramesha Papanna, MD, MPH Researchers are investigating whether a human umbilical cord patch placed on the spina bifida defect ...
Dallas Heart Study yields new insights about depression
UT Southwestern researchers find links between inflammation, menopause, and depressive disorderCredit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 14, 2020 ...
Emerging from the fog: Little understood post-stroke cognitive issues are verified
Credit: Marsh et al. After Julia had a minor stroke, she was thankful for receiving rapid treatment and recovering well. ...
A human gene placed in fruit flies reveals details about a human developmental disorder
Meier-Gorlin syndrome is a rare genetic developmental disorder that causes dwarfism, small ears, a small brain, missing patella and other ...
Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wells
Credit: Pa Department of Environmental Protection Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a ...
Marine pollution: How do plastic additives dilute in water and how risky are they?
Scientists provide improved method to estimate public exposure to hazardous micropollutants from plastic wasteCredit: Seung-Kyu Kim from Incheon National University ...