Researchers find the incident commander in the brain’s defence system
Credit: Line Reinert Imagine seeing a building on fire. You grab the phone and call the fire service. What happens...
Higher BMI in adolescence may affect cognitive function in midlife
Overweight and obesity in adolescents have increased substantially in recent decades, and today affect a third of the adolescent population...
Every grain of sand: Method efficiently renders massive assemblies of granular materials
Be it sand, snow or a bowl of spices, rendering massive aggregations of granular materials is a challenge for animators....
Island volcano monitoring system tested at Nishinoshima
Credit: Kobe University During the October cruise of KS16-16 (1) a research team with members from the Kobe University Graduate...
UNIST engineers thermoelectric material in paintable liquid form
Credit: UNIST A new study, led by Professor Jae Sung Son of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded...
Not free agents? Could human decisions actually be products of deterministic forces?
Credit: World Scientific Decisions are not random. They are a connected network rippling from the past into the future. Is...
Search engines ‘could help young people find best mental health resources’
Search engines and content providers could have a role to play in helping young people find the most reliable mental...
Optical probes overcome light scattering in deep-brain imaging, says Neurophotonics report
Credit: The authors: doi:10.1117/1.NPh.4.1.011002 BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA, and CARDIFF, UK -- The ability to stimulate neural circuits with very high...
Scientists unlock genetic code of diseased lung cells to find new treatments for IPF
CINCINNATI - Researchers cracked the complete genetic code of individual cells in healthy and diseased human lung tissues to find...
Going with the flow: Facile synthesis of a complex biologically active oligopeptide
Credit: Nature Communications The research community and pharmaceutical industry have had a long-standing interest in developing peptide-based therapeutics owing to...
Role of protein in pancreatic secretion suggests potential method for treating diabetes
Credit: Osaka University Research reveals opposing roles for SNAP23 protein in the enzyme- and hormone-secretion functions of the pancreas; SNAP23...
Insomnia prevalent in patients with asthma
A team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh has found that insomnia is highly prevalent in adults with asthma...
New study shows contact lens therapy effective in slowing myopia progression in children
Myopia (nearsightedness) prevalence continues to grow and affect children worldwide CooperVision reports interim two-year data from its Clinical Evaluation of...
Amateur astronomer helps uncover secrets of unique pulsar binary system
Credit: NASA TORONTO A professional astrophysicist and an amateur astronomer have teamed up to reveal surprising details about an unusual...
New study finds mammals during age of dinosaurs packed a powerful bite
Credit: Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture Seattle - Move over, hyenas and saber-toothed cats; there's a mammal with...
Scientists track chemical and structural evolution of catalytic nanoparticles in 3-D
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY- Catalysts are at the heart of fuel cells-devices that convert hydrogen and oxygen to...
Scientists examine bacterium found 1,000 feet underground
Hamilton, ON Dec. 8, 2016 -- Pioneering work being carried out in a cave in New Mexico by researchers at...
Oxygen can wake up dormant bacteria for antibiotic attacks
Credit: Miquel Pons, University of Barcelona Bacterial resistance does not come just through adaptation to antibiotics, sometimes the bacteria simply...
Will Earth still exist 5 billion years from now?
Credit: © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years' time, the Sun is a...
Contraception influences sexual desire in committed relationships
Sex is quite wonderful when the goal is to have children. But sex can also serve as a "glue" in...