Virtual reality in medicine: New opportunities for diagnostics and surgical planning
Credit: Screenshot: University of Base Before an operation, surgeons have to obtain the most precise image possible of the anatomical ...
Healthy weight only protects women from hot flashes during the early stages of menopause
Greater weight increases the likelihood of night sweats and hot flashes during early stages of the menopause transition but reduces ...
How our immune system targets TB
Credit: Imaging CoE Every 18 seconds someone dies from tuberculosis (TB). It is the world's most deadly infectious disease. Mycobacterium ...
New moms moving toward the bottle
Credit: UBC New moms are increasingly using expressed breast milk (either pumped or expressed by hand) instead of directly breastfeeding ...
Targeted preventive measures for hip fracture are needed for persons with Alzheimer’s disease
The hip fracture risk factors are generally similar among those with and without Alzheimer's disease, according to a recent study ...
Safety in darkness
Credit: (Kyoto University, Takahashi/Tadokoro) Kyoto, Japan -- With a little help from chickens and video cameras, scientists have captured live ...
ANU invention to inspire new night-vision specs
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have designed a nano crystal around 500 times smaller ...
Radiation that knocks electrons out and down, one after another
Credit: Kiyonobu Nagaya, Department of Physics, Kyoto University Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University are investigating novel ways by which electrons ...
Applicability of dynamic facilitation theory to binary hard disk systems
Credit: NITech Nagoya, Japan--Glasses are amorphous (non-crystalline) solids that are widely used in everyday life and in technological instruments. It ...
NIFA announces $3 million in funding for robotics research
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced ...
Baby teethers soothe, but many contain low levels of BPA
Credit: American Chemical Society Bisphenol-A (BPA), parabens and antimicrobials are widely used in personal care products and plastics. The U.S. ...
MAO is a possible Alzheimer’s disease biomarker
Credit: American Chemical Society Alzheimer's disease affects more than 35 million people, a number that is expected to increase in ...
Study shows blood products unaffected by drone trips
Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine In what is believed to be the first proof-of-concept study of its kind, Johns Hopkins researchers ...
The secret slimming effect of sweet potato waste
The sweet potato pie you eat during the holidays might not be good for your waistline, but according to a ...
Dark matter may be smoother than expected
This map of dark matter in the Universe was obtained from data from the KiDS survey, using the VLT Survey ...
Nearly one in five young Ontario adults shows problematic use of electronic devices
TORONTO, Dec. 7, 2016 - As many as 19 per cent of Ontario adults aged 18 to 29 experience moderate ...
Patients wait 4 months before seeking cancer diagnosis
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, 07 December, 2016 - Patients wait an average of four months before seeking a cancer diagnosis, researchers report at ...
Foraging differences let closely related seabirds coexist
Credit: R. Clarke How do seabirds share habitat when food is limited? In the case of frigatebirds, size differences drive ...
Perceived long-term job insecurity puts pressure on older workers
ANN ARBOR --The long-term threat of getting a pink slip is giving some older workers the blues. Employees believing for ...
New study identifies possible predictor for women’s longevity
CLEVELAND, Ohio (December 7, 2016)--Death and taxes have long been said to be the only two things guaranteed in life. ...
