How you and your friends can play a video game together using only your minds
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Telepathic communication might be one step closer to reality thanks to new research from the...
Gender bias alive and well in health care roles, study shows
New Orleans, LA -- Results of a multi-center study of patients' assumptions about health care professionals' roles based on gender...
When kinetics and thermodynamics should play together
How the salinity of water affects calcium carbonate nucleationCredit: Washington University in St. Louis The formation of calcium carbonate (CaCO3)...
Biomedical sciences researcher gets $3.26 million grant to develop universal flu vaccine
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Influenza remains a major public health risk, and Dr. Baozhong Wang, associate professor in Georgia State...
Inflatable decelerator will hitch a ride on the JPSS-2 satellite
Credit: NASA's Langley Research Center An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly...
NETRF-funded research may help predict pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) recurrence
Alpha-like islet cells associated with metastasisCredit: Dana-Farber Cancer Center A group of researchers funded by Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Foundation (NETRF)...
Location-based data can provide insights for business decisions
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Data from social commerce websites can provide essential information to business owners before they make decisions that...
WVU researcher studies how nursing homes can accommodate obese residents
Credit: WVU About 30 percent of nursing home residents are obese. That can complicate their care. The facility may need...
Analysis finds US ecosystems shifting hundreds of miles north
Credit: Craig Chandler/University Communication/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked...
Scientists track the source of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ in the brain
Scientists have identified mechanisms in the human brain that could help explain the phenomenon of the 'Uncanny Valley' - the...
Wake Forest Baptist awarded $1.6 million to test iPad colon cancer screening app
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 1, 2019 - Doctors know that screening for colorectal cancer reduces mortality. However, more than one-third...
‘Gentle recovery’ of Brazil’s leatherback turtles
Credit: Banco de Imagens Projeto TAMAR Brazil's leatherback turtles are making a "gentle recovery" after 30 years of conservation efforts,...
Glowing brain cells illuminate stroke recovery research
'Optochemogenetics' removes the fiber optic cableCredit: Shan Ping Yu A promising strategy for helping stroke patients recover, transplanting neural progenitor...
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
Credit: Jigang Wang/Iowa State University AMES, Iowa - Jigang Wang patiently explained his latest discovery in quantum control that could...
Noninvasive test improves detection of aggressive prostate cancer
50% of treatments could have been avoided using new tool, UCLA-led study finds A team of researchers from UCLA and...
Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells
UC Riverside research on mouse neural stem cells has implications for nicotine useCredit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. --...
Good medicine depends on diversity
Columbia University leads a national study to facilitate greater inclusion of ethnic minorities in genetic studiesCredit: Photo courtesy of National...
‘Full of surprises’
Condensed matter theorist Cenke Xu receives 2019 Simons Investigator Award Not long ago, UC Santa Barbara condensed matter physicist Cenke...
Hubble captures the galaxy’s biggest ongoing stellar fireworks show
In the mid-1800s, mariners sailing the southern seas navigated at night by a brilliant star in the constellation Carina. The...
New study solves mystery of salt buildup on bottom of Dead Sea
Credit: NASA/Hubble WASHINGTON--New research explains why salt crystals are piling up on the deepest parts of the Dead Sea's floor,...
