Helping patients with binge eating disorders: There’s an app for that
Credit: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Behavioral therapy assisted by a smartphone app, delivered via telemedicine by a health coach, was an effective...
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Making light work
McMaster and Harvard researchers create 'intelligent' interaction between light and material, establishing a promising new platform for computingCredit: McMaster University HAMILTON, Feb. 3, 2020 -...
Cold plasma patch could make immunotherapy more effective for treating melanoma
The patch significantly prolonged survival, inhibited growth of tumors in miceCredit: Zhen Gu Lab/UCLA Los Angeles - An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the UCLA...
New method for removing oil from water
Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed an environmentally friendly technology inspired by natureCredit: (c) W. Barthlott, M. Mail/Uni Bonn Oil poses a considerable...
Australia’s orroral valley fire consumes over 155,000 acres in a week
Credit: NASA NASA's Terra satellite saw yet another fire, known as the Orroral Valley Fire, break out in the Canberra region of Australia, specifically in...
US sea-level report cards: 2019 data adds to trend in acceleration
Water levels at 25 of 32 stations rose at higher rate than in 2018Credit: Virginia Institute of Marine Science The annual update of their sea...
APS tip sheet: modeling the matter after big bang expansion
Matter's fragmentation after the big bangCredit: Musoke et al. Physical Review Letters (2020) After the Big Bang, there likely came a period of inflation where...
How the development of skulls and beaks made Darwin’s finches one of the most diverse species
Credit: Guillermo Navalon Darwin's finches are among the most celebrated examples of adaptive radiation in the evolution of modern vertebrates and now a new study,...
Microplastic hotspots
UD study maps areas of high concentrations in the Delaware BayCredit: Photo courtesy of Jonathan Cohen Every year, about 8 million metric tons of plastic...
National study confirms nurses at higher risk of suicide than general population
Suicide prevention programs needed; UC San Diego offers successful model for nursesCredit: UC San Diego Health Sciences In the first national study of its size,...
Targeting chronic infections and deadly bacteria
UH researcher examines self-digestion mechanism in persister cellsCredit: University of Houston A University of Houston engineering professor is examining the life cycle of stubborn, drug-resistant...
‘Wristwatch’ monitors body chemistry to boost athletic performance, prevent injury
Credit: Murat Yokus, NC State University Engineering researchers have developed a device the size of a wristwatch that can monitor an individual's body chemistry to...
Making high-temperature superconductivity disappear to understand its origin
Scientists have collected evidence suggesting that a purely electronic mechanism causes copper-oxygen compounds to conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures well above absolute zeroCredit: Brookhaven...
New device identifies high-quality blood donors
Credit: University of British Columbia Blood banks have long known about high-quality donors - individuals whose red blood cells stay viable for longer in storage...
Questions and answers about cannabis use during pregnancy
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, February 3, 2020--A new study shows that women have many medical questions about the use of...
