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Less sensitive temperature regulation a key to hibernation-like torpor
Credit: RIKEN Some animals can enter a hibernation-like state called daily torpor that reduces the amount of energy needed to...
New insights into cause of phantom limb pain may have therapeutic benefits
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Phantom limb pain is the pain experienced following loss of a limb, either from...
Winter conception increases mothers’ diabetes risk
Research led by the University of Adelaide has found that women whose babies are conceived in winter are more likely...
Wind and solar energy projects could bring 5,000 new jobs to rural Minnesota
Minnesota has undergone a remarkable transformation in its energy landscape over the past decade. Coal, once the dominant fuel source...
New way to make low-cost solar cell technology
Credit: Jack Fox, ANU. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency...
UH Cancer Center researcher finds new driver of an aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: UHCancerCenter University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the...
Real men don’t say ‘cute’
Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016. What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social...
New study shows racial/ethnic variations in quitline reach among US smokers
Quitlines, hotlines that provide free cessation services for smokers, appear to be reaching minority populations that typically underutilize cessation treatments...
New protein provides critical link between aging and age-dependent disease
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for...
Scripps Florida scientists discover clues to altered brain wiring in autism
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - Autism is an agonizing...
Scientists ‘plug in’ to circuitry behind sex in male fruit flies
Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to...
Cow goes moo: Artificial intelligence-based system associates images with sounds
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with...
Leishmaniasis infection on the rise in US ecotourists, soldiers
ARLINGTON, Va. - Driven by burgeoning ecotourism and military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a parasitic infection called leishmaniasis is...
Global declines in adolescent childbearing related to national income, education expenditures
New York -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that an important explanation for declining rates...
Unhealthy weight management practices associated with non-medical use of prescription drugs among adolescents
Ann Arbor, MI, November 15, 2016 - Non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) is a serious public health concern in...
Special brain activities while mother and autism spectrum disorder child gaze each other
Credit: Kanazawa University Special activities in the brains while mother and her child with autism spectrum disorder are gazing each...
Asian-Americans are at high risk for diabetes but rarely get screened
Less than half of Asian Americans who ought to be screened for type 2 diabetes actually get tested, according to...
Researchers find association between gene mutation and rare heart disease
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 15, 2015) - A strong association between a genetic mutation and a rare kind of heart muscle...
Why you may want to keep your Movember moustache out of the beer froth
Credit: Centre for Addictions Research of BC at the University of Victoria Alcohol is known to be a risk factor...
Testing for HPV types 16 and 18 may better inform referral to colposcopy
1. Testing for HPV types 16 and 18 in women with high risk HPV may better inform referral to colposcopy...
