Use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes among women of reproductive age in US
Bottom Line: Cigarette use was lower among pregnant women in the United States (8 percent) than among nonpregnant women (14.3...
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
Credit: Hosono, Karato, Makino & Saitoh New Haven, Conn. - For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how...
The last chance for Madagascar’s biodiversity
The most important actions needed by Madagascar's new government to prevent species and habitats being lost for everCredit: Copyright Daniel...
Massachusetts General study finds women pay more for over-the-counter moisturizers
Products marketed to women cost around $3/ounce more than those targeted to men with no significant differences in ingredients Over-the-counter...
GRACE mission data contributes to our understanding of climate change
The GRACE twin satellite system has contributed two decades worth of crucial data on climate changeCredit: Cockrell School Of Engineering,...
Details of the history of inner Eurasia revealed by new study
Researchers combining genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics have gained new insights into the history of inner Eurasia, once a cultural...
Drug treats Type 2 diabetes in children, team announces
Results of a recently completed clinical trial of a potential drug to treat Type 2 diabetes in children were announced...
Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar system
'One of the greatest curiosities is how the universe was formed and how life started. And this weirdo particle showed...
Researchers discover new charge transfer and separation process
SUTD worked with an international team of researchers to develop glutathione fluorescent probes based on the discovery of Twisted Intramolecular...
Mayo Clinic doctors: Fecal transplants may be best answer to antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Non-pharmaceutical treatment combats recurring Clostridium Difficile infections CHICAGO--April 29, 2019-- Transplanting human donor fecal microbiota into the colon of a...
Are buyers willing to forgo quality in locally grown produce?
West Coast farms produce more than 90 percent of the broccoli consumed in the United States. With production mainly in...
Precision medicine for pediatric cancers: New hope for children and adolescents
Five years after it was created to serve children and adolescents in Quebec, the TRICEPS team at CHU Sainte-Justice has...
New 3D microscope visualises fast biological processes better than ever
Credit: Tobias Wüstenfeld "Many important biological processes occur in three dimensions and on millisecond timescales," says Lars Hufnagel on the...
H3N2 viruses mutate during vaccine production but new tech could fix it
Credit: Yoshihiro Kawaoka, UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- In late March 2019, the World Health Organization and a vaccine advisory committee...
A simple solution to a complex problem
Credit: Graphic: Claudia Jessen-Trefzer A team headed by Dr. Claudia Jessen-Trefzer of the University of Freiburg's Institute for Pharmaceuticals Sciences...
Water creates traps in organic electronics
General rule for the energy of water-induced traps in organic semicondutorsCredit: Charlotte Perhammar Poor-quality organic semiconductors can become high-quality semiconductors...
Record solar hydrogen production with concentrated sunlight
Credit: EPFL Hydrogen will play a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. It can be sustainably produced...
New view on the mechanisms of how the brain works
After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not...
Lithuanian researchers are developing a system for quality post-stroke rehabilitation
Researchers of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) and Italian high-tech company Gruppo Fos...
Dark matter exists: The observations which question its presence in galaxies disproved
Research conducted by SISSA clarifies one of the recent most intriguing controversies on the most widespread form of matter in...
