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Consumer-use baby monitors have little proven benefit for healthy infants
Credit: Childen's Hospital of Philadelphia It sounds simple and harmless--an electronic sensor attached to a baby's sock that monitors vital...
Swarm of underwater robots mimics ocean life
Credit: Scripps Oceanography/Jaffe Lab for Underwater Imaging Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University...
NAS honors five for major contributions in physical science and engineering
WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences will honor five individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements...
Bursts of methane may have warmed early Mars
Credit: NASA The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There's plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically...
New sensors can detect single protein molecules
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For the first time, MIT engineers have designed sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they...
Large pre-ACA Medicaid expansion did not level health disparities in cancer surgery
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- An analysis of the New York State's Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care...
News media registration open for ENDO 2017: The 99th Annual Meeting & EXPO in Orlando, Fla.
Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO...
Timing of chemo affects inflammation, mice study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation...
Role of thrust and drag clarified for swimming microorganisms
Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for...
Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain
Credit: Leandro Alonso WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 -- Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural...
Prenatal infection may alter brain development via epigenetic changes
Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24, 2017 - Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for psychiatric disorders in the child, but...
Can mushrooms help delay or prevent Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 24, 2017 -- Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain bioactive...
Scientists lay foundations for new type of solar cell
Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the foundations for an entirely new type of photovoltaic...
Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalization research
Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research...
Your (social media) votes matter
Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame When Tim Weninger conducted two large-scale experiments on Reddit - otherwise known as "the...
New discovery: Nanometric imprinting on fiber
Credit: EPFL Researchers at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fibre Devices, which is run by Fabien Sorin, have come...
What holds the heart together
Credit: Uli Benz / TUM Our hearts beat a life long. With every beat our heart muscle contracts and expands....
Micro spacecraft investigates cometary water mystery
Credit: NAOJ/ESA/Go Miyazaki In September 2015, a team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, University of Michigan,...
Can we see beginnings of state failure in the US and Europe?
The United States and Europe face an increasing risk of state failure in coming years due to the escalation of...
Ion treatments for cardiac arrhythmia
Credit: Picture: Blausen.com staff. CC BY 3.0, remix by GSI Approximately 350,000 patients in Germany suffer from various forms of...