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Financial incentives plus information decrease patient preference for diagnostic testing
Credit: KIRSTY CHALLEN, B.SC., MBCHB, MRES, PH.D., LANCASHIRE TEACHING HOSPITALS, UNITED KINGDOM DES PLAINES, IL -- Providing financial incentives to...
Topological nanoelectronics
Credit: Picture: Christoph Fleckenstein / University of Wuerzburg Topological insulators are materials with astonishing properties: Electric current flows only along...
New study points to another possible correlation between sleep and overall good health
NSU study shows that your gut microbiome and quality sleep are interconnectedCredit: Nova Southeastern University FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - As...
DESI’s 5000 eyes open as Kitt Peak Telescope prepares to map space and time
Installation of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument nears completionCredit: DESI Collaboration; Legacy Surveys; NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA; NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory...
Genetics reveal Pacific subspecies of fin whale
New findings highlight diversity of marine mammalsCredit: Paula Olson/NOAA Fisheries New genetic research has identified fin whales in the northern...
UV satellite will open new view on exploding stars and black holes
DESY to build 100-megapixel camera for Israeli space telescopeCredit: DESY, Sven Stein A new space telescope will open up an...
Make fungi think they’re starving to stop them having sex, say scientists
Newly characterised receptors that repress sexual reproduction in fungi could be targeted to slow down their evolutionCredit: Brown and Goldman...
Study finds inflammatory protein can protect against spread of herpes virus
Credit: Photo by Tabbitha Mosier PHOENIX - Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix have discovered...
Teaching cars to drive with foresight
Researchers at the University of Bonn present self-learning processCredit: © AG Computer Vision der Universität Bonn Good drivers anticipate dangerous...
Looking at the way we walk can help predict cognitive decline
Gait disorders, particularly slowing gait, should be considered a marker of future cognitive decline say scientists in this special supplement...
How to move against the current? One answer is ’tilt’-illating
Credit: Dr. Yan-Peng Liu Going upstream, and against a current, involves a front-first downward tilt and then moving along a...
DOD funds NEOMED research to see if exercise proves to be neuroprotective
Nearly $1 million award supports study that may help change the pathology of Parkinson's disease and inform activities for those...
Study underscores changes in brain structure, function in long-duration space missions
Credit: Sarah Pack A new study demonstrates for the first time that changes in cognitive performance correlate with changes in...
Study tracks evolutionary history of metabolic networks
Credit: Photo illustration by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- By analyzing how metabolic enzymes are built and organized, researchers have...
Scientists are developing a way to counter ulcerative colitis
KBFU center for clinical research scientists have participated in the international VARSITY clinical researchCredit: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Scientists...
Hubble captures cosmic face
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears...
New findings could improve diagnosis, treatment of depression
Scientists find potential biomarker for major symptom of depression: lack of motivationCredit: Image courtesy of Stephan Lammel, UC Berkeley Researchers...
Signaling waves determine embryonic fates
Rice University lab shows cell-signal pathway dynamics prompt first patterns in embryosCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 28, 2019)...
An amazingly simple recipe for nanometer-sized corundum
Credit: IFJ PAN, MPI Kofo Almost everyone uses nanometer-sized alumina these days - this mineral, among others, constitutes the skeleton...
Go-ahead for international stellarator project
German-American joint project/Funding by Helmholtz AssociationCredit: IPP, Volker Steger Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous...
