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September 24, 2025

ERC Synergy Grant awarded to project exploring playful learning

Implementing a project entitled 'BrainPlay', an interdisciplinary team of researchers will explore the way in which play affects the human...

Kessler Foundation fellow wins grant to study behavioral motivations in children with ADHD

Credit: Kessler Foundation Joman Y. Natsheh, MD, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in Pediatric Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Research at Kessler Foundation, has...

To see what’s right in front of you, your brain may need some rewiring

Credit: Laboratory of Neurobiology at The Rockefeller University Life-changing moments are also brain-changing moments: everything from a first kiss to...

Brain training app helps reduce OCD symptoms, study finds

A 'brain training' app developed at the University of Cambridge could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)...

EuroEcho-Imaging 2018

EuroEcho-Imaging is the annual congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC. Wednesday 05 - Saturday...

PureCircle to present latest updates on stevia in India at IUFoST 2018

October 23, 2018 Mumbai, India - PureCircle (LSE: PURE), the world's leading producer and innovator of great tasting sweeteners for...

Managing high blood pressure in diabetics may prevent life-threatening organ damage

Credit: Rutgers School of Nursing The most effective way to prevent life-threatening complications of extreme hypertension in African-Americans with diabetes...

New kind of compound shows early promise against prostate cancer

A new type of molecule blocks the action of genes that drive the growth of therapy-resistant prostate cancer, a new...

Politics interferes with the ability to assess expertise

Learning about someone's political beliefs interferes with a person's ability to assess expertise, as people judge like-minded peers as being...

Flavored capsule cigarettes pose a threat to smokefree goals

Credit: University of Otago New research from ASPIRE2025, a University of Otago research theme, challenges tobacco companies' claims they are...

Mechanics of birds’ nests subject of NSF research

Credit: Dr. Hunter King, The University of Akron Some of the best engineering, it turns out, is done by bird...

Pancreatic cancer genetic marker may predict outcomes with radiation therapy

(PHILADELPHIA) - Pancreatic cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to treat and is a leading cause of cancer-related...

Reclamation allocates $3.9 million for research projects to support water management

Credit: Alex Stephens, Bureau of Reclamation The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $3.9 million through its Science and Technology Program...

Radiation/cisplatin combination established as standard of care for HPV+ oral cancer

SAN ANTONIO, October 22, 2018 -- Combinations of radiation and chemotherapy drugs have been shown to cure HPV-related head and...

Spotlighting differences in closely-related species

Credit: Ellen Kirstine Lyhne, DTU There are millions of fungal species, and those few hundred found in the Aspergillus genus...

Special journal issue looks for new clues about old life

Credit: Scott Evans Riverside Calif. --Hundreds of millions of years before there was a chicken or an egg to debate,...

Study finds availability of nitrogen to plants is declining as climate warms

Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Andrew Elmore FROSTBURG, MD (October 22, 2018)--Researchers have found that global changes, including...

Fracking wastewater accumulation found in freshwater mussels’ shells

Credit: Westcott Phillip Elevated concentrations of strontium, an element associated with oil and gas wastewaters, have accumulated in the shells...

Pelvic lymph node radiation provides significant benefit for prostate cancer patients

SAN ANTONIO, October 22, 2018 -- The first report of a large international clinical trial shows that, for men who...

Radiation therapy outcomes better for African-American than Caucasian prostate cancer patients