Insomnia in midlife may manifest as cognitive problems in retirement age
The Helsinki Health Study at the University of Helsinki investigated the development of insomnia symptoms in midlife and their effects on memory, learning ability and...
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Engineers evaluate the factors behind battery performance at low temperatures
Energy storage with rechargeable battery technologies powers our digital lifestyles and supports renewable energy integration into the power grid. However, battery function under cold conditions...
Learning more about bird diversity: What a museum collection in Romania can tell us
Containing specimens from different locations, sometimes spanning across centuries, museum collections can teach us a lot about how some animals are built and how we...
Uncovering new details of the brain’s first line of defense
Fukuoka, Japan—Thanks to over a century of modern neuroscience, we have made significant strides in our understanding of the brain. Nonetheless, we have only just...
Researchers have developed a potential super wheat for salty soils
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have developed several new varieties of wheat that tolerate soils with higher salt concentrations. After having mutated a wheat...
Snake trade in Indonesia is not sustainable enough — but it could be
Wildlife trade is a multi-million dollar industry. While some animals are traded legally, in compliance with legislation that aims to protect populations, wildlife trafficking continues...
Biocompatible binary hologram with drug-elution capabilities
Holographic devices are used for security enhancement, entertainment, 3D display technologies and augmented reality but not limited to them. Due to their high information capacity,...
Dietary cholesterol worsens inflammation, sickness in mice with influenza
URBANA, Ill. – New research from the University of Illinois suggests high levels of dietary cholesterol make mice sicker when infected with influenza. The study...
Can we prevent antibiotic resistance?
Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were introduced in the 1940s, curing infections and making procedures like chemotherapy and surgeries safer. But their effectiveness...
Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics
A hospital or medical clinic might be the last place you’d expect to pick up a nasty infection, but approximately 1.7 million Americans do each...
Using everyday WiFi to help robots see and navigate better indoors
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors, even...
Bird flu is driven by ecologically diverse species, with wild ducks, gulls, geese, and poultry playing a role in global spread
Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Credit: Wendy Puryear, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Article URL: http://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010062 Article Title: Ecological divergence of wild birds drives avian influenza spillover and global spread...
Avian influenza: How it’s spreading and what to know about this outbreak
When it comes to avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, all birds are not created equal. Credit: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University When it comes to...
Genetic predictability steadily erodes during evolution, new study shows
A critical goal in genetics and evolution is predicting the effects of mutations that may happen in the future and inferring the effects of those...
Some people fared better than others during COVID-19 pandemic due to genetics
Everyone has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a new study by Lude Franke and colleagues of the University of Groningen, Netherlands finds that...
