A small electrical zap to the brain could help you retrieve a forgotten memory
Credit: Stuart Wolpert/UCLA A study by UCLA psychologists provides strong evidence that a certain region of the brain plays a...
Can cannabinoids help treat obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Credit: ©2012, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 30, 2019--The body's endocannabinoid system, due to the critical...
Research brief: Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally
The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply...
Astrocytes protect neurons from toxic buildup
Astrocytes are overtaxed neurons' pit crew. The brain cells collect damaged lipids secreted by hyperactive neurons, then recycle those toxic...
Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory
Credit: Elle Starkman When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam...
Boston College chemist Jia Niu named 2019 Beckman Young Investigator
Honor from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards early-career chemist $600,000 for polymer researchCredit: Lee Pellegrini / Boston College Chestnut...
Finding a needle in a haystack: Discovery of Ti 2 InB 2 for synthesizing layered TiB
Credit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) managed to use boron as the X element in...
Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm
Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a...
ASCO: Finally, a tool to predict response to chemotherapy before bladder cancer surgery
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center University of Colorado Cancer Center led clinical trial data show that a predictive tool...
Colloidal gel properties under the microscope
Tokyo, Japan - The term colloidal gel might not be one that is immediately familiar to everybody. However, most people...
RIT researchers receive NSF award to develop new diagnostic tool for cardiac disease
Non-invasive method increases likelihood of correctly identifying areas of deteriorating heart function Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are providing...
Prescription drug costs steadily soar, yet price transparency is lacking
Scripps Research analyzed pharmacy insurance claims from over 35 million Americans, finding 'continual, marked, annual increases' of popular brand-name drugs,...
A new way to predict complications after larynx cancer surgery
When the surgical wound doesn't heal right, it can send some patients back to the OR; a new technique tested...
Community impacts from extreme weather shape climate beliefs
New study finds that how our community or neighborhood fares in an extreme storm or flood may have a stronger,...
Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives
Credit: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Michigan State University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- As spring advances across the...
Occupational hazards account for more than one in ten people with range of lung diseases
Credit: ATS June 1, 2019--More than 1 in 10 people with a range of non-cancerous lung diseases may be sick...
Chasing species’ ‘intactness’
Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric...
Research reveals role of fat storage cells in anti-obesity intervention
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- New research from a team at the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine establishes a...
Richtsmeier receives anatomist’s science award
Credit: Penn State Joan Richtsmeier, distinguished professor of anthropology, is the recipient of the American Association of Anatomists' 2019 Henry...
Children who nap are happier, excel academically, and have fewer behavioral problems
A Penn study of nearly 3,000 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders in China revealed strong connections between 30 to 60...
