Making graphene using laser-induced phase separation
Credit: IBS All our smart phones have shiny flat AMOLED displays. Behind each single pixel of these displays hide at...
Parkinson’s disease and cognitive decline: A genetic connection revealed
Boston, MA-- Although the hallmark symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD) - such as involuntary shaking, slowness of movement and muscle...
Baylor study aims to find out why some children’s autism symptoms improve with antibiotics
Dallas, TX (December 1, 2016) -- Over the Thanksgiving holiday in 2012, John Rodakis, a father of a child with...
2016-2017 Airline Food Study
NEW YORK, NY (December 10, 2016) There will more than 38 million passengers traveling during this holiday season. Knowing what...
IPM’s ring study results published in New England Journal of Medicine
Credit: Andrew Loxley p>SILVER SPRING, Md. (Dec. 1, 2016) - The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) announced today that The...
Sniffing like a dog can improve trace detection of explosives
Credit: © Robert Rathe By mimicking how dogs get their whiffs, a team of government and university researchers have demonstrated...
Attempted suicide rates and risk groups essentially unchanged, new study shows
Johns Hopkins investigators report that their analysis of a national database representing more than 1 billion emergency department visits shows...
Complications of type 2 diabetes affect quality of life, care can lead to diabetes burnout
Philadelphia, December 1, 2016 - T2D Lifestyle, a national survey by Health Union of more than 400 individuals experiencing type...
The coldest decade of the millennium? How the cold 1430s led to famine and disease
Credit: Benjamin Amann, University of Bern While searching through historical archives to find out more about the 15th-century climate of...
Predation on pollinating insects shaped the evolution of the orchid mantis
Credit: Jason Zhu Cleveland... A team of scientists at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Australia, and Germany discovered that...
New process produces hydrogen at much lower temperature
Credit: Waseda University Waseda University researchers have developed a new method for producing hydrogen, which is fast, irreversible, and takes...
Single dose of hallucinogenic drug psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer
Credit: NYU Langone Medical Center When combined with psychological counseling, a single dose of a mind-altering compound contained in psychedelic...
Patients with cancer history experiencing severe heart attacks benefit from cardiac care
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- One in 10 patients who come to the hospital with the most severe type of heart attack...
Alcohol intake associated with increased risk of melanoma
Bottom Line: Alcohol intake was associated with higher rates of invasive melanoma among white men and women. White wine carried...
Study of thousands of operations finds overlapping surgeries are safe for Mayo Clinic patients
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A common way of scheduling surgeries to expand patient access to care and improve hospital efficiency, known...
The first analysis of Ewing’s sarcoma methyloma opens doors to new treatments
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Sarcoma research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado,...
XROMM, an influential 3-D, X-ray technology for biomechanics, gains new capabilities
Credit: Stephen Crocker/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- It's right there in the word "discovery" -- the idea of removing whatever...
Hallucinogenic drug psilocybin eases existential anxiety in people with life-threatening cancer
In a small double-blind study, Johns Hopkins researchers report that a substantial majority of people suffering cancer-related anxiety or depression...
‘Mic check’ for marine mammals
Credit: Danielle Harris Washington, D. C. November 30, 2016 -- Hearing is a vital sense for marine mammals who use...
Shifts in mating strategies help herbicide-resistant ‘superweeds’ persist
ANN ARBOR -- Herbicide-resistant "superweeds" change their mating strategies over time, an evolutionary shift that helps them hold onto valuable...