Science
Ants communicate by mouth-to-mouth fluid exchange
Credit: Adria C. LeBoeuf Liquids shared mouth-to-mouth by social insects contain proteins and small molecules that can influence the development...
UTSW researchers’ international study zeros in on gene that limits desire to drink alcohol
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2016 - In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--While frequency and duration of online social networking...
UMD researchers crack the code of a deadly virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an unforgiving killer of horses, donkeys and zebras, resulting in mortality as high as...
Our closest worm kin regrow body parts, raising hopes of regeneration in humans
Credit: Shawn Luttrell/University of Washington What if humans could regrow an amputated arm or leg, or completely restore nervous system...
Diane Spatz receives Lifetime Achievement Award from National Assoc. of Neonatal Nurses
Credit: Penn Nursing PHILADELPHIA (November 28, 2016) - Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN, Professor of Perinatal Nursing and the...
Optimizing fertilizer rates for wild blueberry
KEMPTOWN, NOVA SCOTIA - The authors of a study in HortScience (September 2106) say that wild blueberry nutrient management varies...
Program helps teens ‘get the message’ about distracted driving
November 28, 2016 - A program to educate teens about distracted driving--including a tour of a hospital trauma center and...
Handheld, mobile data technologies compared for turfgrass
ATHENS, GA - Performance testing of natural turfgrass sports fields requires sampling to obtain information on surface properties (e.g., soil...
Compost establishes growing media pH similar to limestone
KENNETT SQUARE, PA - As concerns increase about the environmental impacts of harvesting peat and the rising costs of peatmoss...
Most people at risk for osteoporisis fractures are not evaluated and treated
MAYWOOD, IL - Osteoporosis is preventable and treatable, but only a small proportion of people at risk for fractures are...
Missed connections
Credit: UCSB Studies of brain activity typically draw their findings from measurement averages across entire groups of subjects. But new...
How crop load density affects apple juice, hard cider quality
Credit: Photo courtesy of Gregory Peck. ITHACA, NY - Hard cider, an alcoholic beverage produced from fermented apple juice or...
Study reveals lack of supporting evidence for claims about fertility treatments
Many claims made by UK fertility clinics about the benefits of treatments beyond standard IVF procedures are not backed up...
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 Vanderbilt Prize recipient
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of...
NIAID-sponsored study to assess shorter-duration antibiotics in children
Physicians at five U.S. medical centers are planning to enroll up to 400 children in a clinical trial to evaluate...
Bullying rates remain higher for children with disabilities, even as they mature
COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 22 percent of children ages 12-18 say they have been bullied in school within the...
Iraq-Afghanistan veterans with epilepsy more at risk of death
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans (IAVs) with epilepsy were more than twice as likely...
Stem cells police themselves to reduce scarring, Stanford study finds
Treating mice with a compound that increases the expression of an inactive protein helped them heal from injury with less...
Study says CT use OK for some colon cancers, yet challenging for lymph node involvement
Leesburg, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 -- CT has good sensitivity for the detection of colon cancers with tumors that have...