Researchers awarded $2.7M to study loneliness and Alzheimer’s
Work will tell us how loneliness interacts with brain structure and function in normal aging and pre-symptomatic Alzheimer's diseaseCredit: The ...
Sensory device stimulates ears and tongue to treat tinnitus in large trial
Credit: B. Conlon et al., Science Translational Medicine (2020) A device that stimulates the ears and tongue substantially reduced the ...
Simple sugar possible therapy for repairing myelin in multiple sclerosis
Credit: UCI School of Medicine Irvine, CA - Oct. 7, 2020 - N-acetylglucosamine, a simple sugar found in human breast ...
Oral cancer pain predicts likelihood of cancer spreading
Research identifies genes highly expressed in painful, metastatic oral cancer, revealing mechanism for cancer painCredit: Chuy Gutierrez Oral cancer is ...
New approach helps EMTs better assess chest pain en route to hospital
Credit: Wake Forest Baptist WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Oct. 7, 2020 - Is this person with chest pain having a heart ...
High-speed photos shine a light on how metals fail
By combining experimental and theoretical work, researchers discover what happens when metals are stretched to their yield pointCredit: Aalto University ...
New biomarker to prevent graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplants discovered
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers uncover a new biomarker whose activity can be blocked to prevent graft-versus-host disease following hematopoietic ...
UMD researchers develop tools to sharpen 3D view of large RNA molecules
New technique breaks through a technology roadblock that limited RNA imaging for 50 yearsCredit: Kwaku Dayie/University of Maryland University of ...
Paleontologists identify new species of mosasaur
Ancient lizard's long, crocodile-like snout suggests it carved out a niche in a competitive marine ecosystem.Credit: Tatsuya Shinmura) A new ...
Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Credit: UC Berkeley Biochemist Jennifer Doudna, a professor at UC Berkeley and faculty scientist at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...
Aerodynamicists reveal link between fish scales and aircraft drag
City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team have transferred the idea of fish scales to arrays of ...
Broken promises: Almost 80% of threatened species lack sufficient protection
Credit: TJ Watt A failure by governments to deliver on commitments under a global nature conservation treaty, the Convention on ...
Feline friendly? How to build rap-paw with your cat – new psychology study
Credit: Prof Karen McComb University of Sussex A team of psychologists at the Universities of Sussex and Portsmouth have purr-fected ...
RUDN University soil scientists: Green suburbs can be more harmful than city centers
Credit: RUDN University A team of soil scientists from RUDN University confirmed that traditional approaches to urban soil pollution monitoring ...
First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany
Credit: Emily Julka MADISON, Wis. -- At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take ...
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
Credit: Image courtesy of Jun Yin, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology While solar power is a leading form ...
Fighting intestinal infections with the body’s own endocannabinoids
Native chemicals similar to those found in cannabis can inhibit bacterial virulence, study led by UTSW researchers suggestsCredit: UT Southwestern ...
Taking the STING out of MND
Credit: Image courtesy of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Melbourne researchers are working towards a potential ...
Joel L. Lebowitz honored with 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
Mathematical physicist honored "for seminal contributions to nonequilibrium and equilibrium statistical mechanics"Credit: Lebowitz WASHINGTON, October 7, 2020 -- The American ...
WVU engineers receive funding to improve methane sensor technology in longwall mines
Credit: West Virginia University Despite longwall mining being an efficient way of extracting coal, it produces dangerous methane gas that ...