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Sleep makes it possible for babies to associate words with content — and not with noise
Credit: MPI CBS While babies sleep, astonishing processes take place in their brains. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for...
New scanning process allows unprecedented look inside live insects
Credit: Danny Poinapen/Western University, London, Canada Until now, insects have been too wriggly to make good subjects for scientists wanting...
An updated classification for freshwater crayfishes
A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known...
Assembling nanomachines in bacteria
Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) One of the oldest nanomachines in biology is the bacterial flagellum. This apparatus is evolutionary...
New noninvasive method of intracranial pressure monitoring
Credit: © 2017 AANS. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (AUG. 8, 2017). Researchers from Klinikum Stuttgart and the University of Erlangen, Germany, report...
New battery is activated by your spit
Credit: Binghamton University, State University of New York BINGHAMTON, NY - Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York...
Gulf Research Program announces 2017 Early-Career Research and Science Policy Fellowships
WASHINGTON - The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine today announced the recipients of...
Extreme heat linked to climate change may adversely affect pregnancy
WASHINGTON, DC (Aug. 8, 2017) -- Pregnant women are an important but thus far largely overlooked group vulnerable to the...
JCU scientist finds alcohol-free solution works
A James Cook University scientist has made a discovery that will make life easier for surgery patients and their surgeon....
Power-to-liquid: 200 liters of fuel from solar power and the air’s carbon dioxide
Credit: Photo: VTT Production of liquid fuels from regenerative electric power is a major component of the energy turnaround. The...
One step closer in explaining MS relapse during upper respiratory infection
Credit: Lauren D. Quinn URBANA, Ill. - For most of us, the flu is just the flu. We suffer through...
Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys
Credit: Peter Rejcek An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and...
The 4th Annual Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum at the EMBO/Basel Life Conference
Credit: Insilico Medicine, Inc. Tuesday, August 8th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Many areas of science and technology are experiencing rapid...
Multi-nutrient rice against malnutrition
Nearly every second person eats primarily rice to meet the daily calorie needs. A meal of rice stops the hunger,...
NSF funds new multidisciplinary approaches to study the brain
Credit: Homewood Photography The National Science Foundation (NSF) made 19 awards to cross-disciplinary teams from across the United States to...
New microscope technique reveals internal structure of live embryos
Credit: Image courtesy Gabriel Popescu CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to produce 3-D images...
Protein critical to early stages of cellular HIV infection identified
Credit: Department of Molecular Virology,TMDU Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)-led researchers identify a protein critical to the early stages...
Relieving antibiotic resistance: Researchers take steps toward new treatment for E. coli
Credit: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan. -- By understanding the functional differences between proteins expressed by two E. coli strains,...
Amniotic sac in a dish: Stem cells form structures that may aid of infertility research
Credit: University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The first few weeks after sperm meets egg still hold many mysteries....
Swedish researchers and global fishing companies form coalition for sustainable seas
Credit: Photo: Wikimedia commons The initiative marks the first time that companies from Asia, Europe and the US have joined...
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