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In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture
Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural...
Who’s liable? The AV or the human driver?
Columbia researchers use game theory to help policy makers create liability rules for accidents involving self-driving cars and those driven...
Including irregular time intervals improves animal movement studies
Credit: bighorn sheep, Lori Iverson - USFWS/flickr; cheetah - Bernard DuPont/flicker; black carpenter ants - Hughes Lab, Penn State; blue...
UTEP receives $1M to increase number of students who pursue graduate engineering studies
Credit: JR Hernandez / UTEP Communications, The University of Texas at El Paso's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department was awarded...
InDepth Pharmaceuticals moves ahead with diagnostic to predict kidney transplant success
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina InDepth Pharmaceuticals, founded by Deepak Nihalani, Ph.D., the SmartState Endowed Chair in...
More federal funding needed to increase Americans’ active transportation habits
Credit: Photo by Ryan Young for Virginia Tech. The federal government has allocated only about 2 percent of its transportation...
Racial disparities in heart failure explained
Experts hopeful that findings could help identify individuals who might benefit from earlier interventionCredit: UTSW DALLAS - Jan. 14, 2020...
From smoke going round the world to aerosol levels, NASA observes Australia’s bushfires
Credit: Credits: NASA/Colin Seftor NASA scientists using data from its NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite, has traced the movement of the...
Hyperactive immune system gene causes schizophrenia-like changes in mice
Credit: Rhushikesh A. Phadke Excessive activity of an immune system gene previously linked to schizophrenia reproduces neural and behavioral aspects...
Study weighs deep-sea mining’s impact on microbes
Credit: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution The essential roles that microbes play in deep-sea ecosystems are at risk from the potential...
Exosomes promote remarkable recovery in stroke
Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker It's been almost a quarter century since the first drug was approved for stroke. But what's...
Colloidal quantum dot laser diodes are just around the corner
Researchers reach a critical milestone on the path to versatile colloidal quantum dot laser diodes by successfully demonstrating a quantum...
Not so fast: Some batteries can be pushed too far
Rice engineers find overabundance of intentional defects can cause battery cathodes to failCredit: Mesoscale Materials Science Group/Rice University HOUSTON -...
University of Ottawa tool to democratize nanopore research
Credit: T.-Cossa Lab, Department of Physics, University of Ottawa A nanopore is a tiny hole in a thin membrane with...
Tomohiro Nishijima earns The Oncologist’s Young Investigator Award
Credit: AlphaMed Press Durham, NC -Tomohiro Nishijima, M.D., was awarded The Oncologist's 2nd Annual Young Investigator Award for his research...
New parasitoid wasp species discovered in the Amazon — can manipulate host’s behavior
Credit: Kari Kaunisto A research group from the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku studies the diversity of parasitoid...
Robotic gripping mechanism mimics how sea anemones catch prey
The doughnut-shaped, plastic rubber device crimps its skin to latch onto anything from cloth to beakers filled with liquid.Credit: Weifeng...
Scientists hope to defeat infections after discovering bacterial espionage
Credit: Copyright: Kristjan Teedema/Postimees/Scanpix University of Tartu scientists hope create a solution for chronic infections that do not respond to...
Final images from Cassini spacecraft
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/A. Bader (Lancaster University). Researchers are busy analysing some of the final data sent back from the...
New E. coli-infecting bacteriophage introduced in PHAGE
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, January 14, 2020--A new coliphage - a bacteriophage that infects and...
