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Losing sleep over climate change
Credit: Courtesy N. Obradovich Climate change may keep you awake -- and not just metaphorically. Nights that are warmer than...
Total abdominal wall transplantation for complex transplant cases — experts outline technique
May 26, 2017 - For some patients undergoing intestinal or multi-organ transplantation, closing the abdominal wall poses a difficult surgical...
Diesel pollution linked to heart damage
Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Diesel pollution is linked with heart damage, according to research presented today at...
Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands
Credit: Leuthardt lab Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a device fitted over their...
Researchers develop faster and cheaper cardiac imaging test for developing countries
Prague, Czech Republic - 26 May 2017: Researchers in the UK and Peru have developed a faster and cheaper cardiac...
High levels of PFOA found in mid-Ohio River Valley residents from 1991 to 2013
New research from the University of Cincinnati (UC) reveals that residents of the Mid-Ohio River Valley (from Evansville, Indiana, north...
Why communication is vital — even among plants and funghi
Plant scientists at the University of Cambridge have found a plant protein indispensable for communication early in the formation of...
Dog skull study reveals genetic changes linked to face shape
A study of dog DNA has revealed a genetic mutation linked to flat face shapes such as those seen in...
New insights into the ancestors of all complex life
Credit: Tim Bertelink A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol has provided new insights into the origins...
Marine species distribution shifts will continue under ocean warming
Scientists using a high-resolution global climate model and historical observations of species distributions on the Northeast U.S. Shelf have found...
Venetian physician had a key role in shaping early modern chemistry
Credit: Santorio's marginal note to col. 406C-D, in Santorio Santori, Commentaria In Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (Venice, 1625),...
Darwin was right: Females prefer sex with good listeners
Credit: Peter Marriott Almost 150 years after Charles Darwin first proposed a little-known prediction from his theory of sexual selection,...
Open-access genetic screening for hereditary breast cancer is feasible and effective
Ashkenazi Jewish women are known to have a predisposition to the inherited breast cancers BRCA1 and BRCA2, but currently genetic...
Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands
Credit: Courtesy of Adena Rissman/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned...
Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds
Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach...
Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe
Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years...
A flip switch for binge-eating?
Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately...
Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal...
Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable...
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
