The brain puts the memories warehouse in order while we sleep
During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift. A study led by a Spanish scientist at the University of Cambridge reveals that...
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When natural disaster strikes, can insects and other invertebrates recover?
Credit: Jeff Thrasher Annapolis, MD; March 15, 2018 -- After a 100-year flood struck south central Oklahoma in 2015, a study of the insects, arthropods,...
RE: Thinking the robot/Robotic Futures: Fresh Perspectives/Panel Discussion on March 22, 2018
Credit: 2018 Institute Of Industrial Science, the University Of Tokyo We are on the cusp of the robotics revolution: new technologies promise a societal shift...
Epigenetic analysis: Giving the right name to a tumor
The "Hopp Children's Cancer Center at the NCT Heidelberg" (KiTZ) is a joint institution of Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) and the German Cancer Research Center...
Scientists illuminate mechanism at play in learning
Credit: OIST The process we call learning is in fact a well-orchestrated symphony of thousands of molecular reactions, but the exact interplay between these reactions...
Inspired by insects: New anti-collision technology could help create safer driverless cars
Swarming insects are the inspiration behind a global research project that aims to create a pioneering new collision avoidance system to enhance the safety of...
Large-scale climatic warming could increase persistent haze in Beijing
Credit: LIN PEI Over the past decades, Beijing, the capital city of China, has encountered increasingly frequent persistent haze events (PHEs). Severe PHEs not only...
A small protein with many applications
Credit: Rasmus Kjeldsen Jensen and Janus Asbjørn Schatz-Jakobsen, Aarhus University Researchers from the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and from the Department of Biomedicine...
Metal-organic frameworks cut energy consumption of petrochemicals
Credit: K.V. Agrawal/EPFL In the chemical and the petrochemical industries, separating molecules in an energy-efficient way is one of the most important challenges. Overall, the...
Improved capture of cancer cells in blood could help track disease
Credit: Michael Poellmann MADISON, Wis. - Tumor cells circulating throughout the body in blood vessels have long been feared as harbingers of metastasizing cancer -...
Faulty cellular membrane ‘mix’ linked to Parkinson’s disease
Working with lab-grown human brain cells, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have uncovered a much sought-after connection between one of the most common genetic mutations...
Viral hideout
Once herpes simplex infects a person, the virus goes into hiding inside nerve cells, hibernating there for life, periodically waking up from its sleep to...
New survey finds huge and unnecessary variation of salt levels in bread
Canadian bread product saltiest in survey of global bread products Some breads surveyed had as much sodium (salt) as seawater (1) More than a third...
Ludwig study extends potential for personalized immunotherapy to large variety of cancers
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research A Ludwig Cancer Research study shows that ovarian cancer, which has proved resistant to currently available immunotherapies, could be susceptible to...
The coffee cannabis connection
CHICAGO --- It's well known that a morning cup of joe jolts you awake. But scientists have discovered coffee affects your metabolism in dozens of...