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Telehealth reduces wait time, improves care for children with autism living in remote areas
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - Long wait times have been a persistent issue for families waiting to see...
A better dye job for roots — in plants
Credit: Elke Barbez/Gregor Mendel Institute LA JOLLA--(June 1, 2017) Once we start coloring our hair, we may be surprised to...
Soaring medical costs from bicycle accidents
Bicycle use has skyrocketed in popularity, but it's also led to more accidents, with medical costs from non-fatal bike crashes...
Religious individuals regret having casual sex only slightly more
The cultural differences between the United States and Norway are relatively small, but the cultures differ significantly from one another...
A mother’s age doesn’t matter
A number of previous scientific studies have found that among mothers 35 or older, there is an elevated risk that...
Yale chemists forge a new path in the search for antibiotics
Credit: Michael S. Helfenbein New Haven, Conn. - Yale University scientists have developed a novel chemical process that may lead...
Uncovering why playing a musical instrument can protect brain health
Credit: Baycrest Health Sciences A recent study conducted at Baycrest Health Sciences has uncovered a crucial piece into why playing...
Physicists create ‘molecular black hole’ using ultra-intense X-ray pulses
Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like...
Newly identified microbial process could reduce toxic methylmercury levels
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department...
Radiation therapy, macrophages improve efficacy of nanoparticle-delivered cancer therapy
Credit: Miles Miller, PhD, and Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD; Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital...
New tech promises easier cervical cancer screening
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed a handheld device for cervical cancer screening that promises...
How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences
UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something,...
Mining for answers on abandoned mines
Credit: Andrew Harley Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is...
Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive
Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full...
Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report...
We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back
Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or...
Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what...
NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico....
Russian scientists improved an X-ray fluorescence analysis algorithm
Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have performed computations and derived new equations, allowing...
Cold conversion of food waste into renewable energy and fertilizer
Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the...
