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New research indicates that harm from medicines is common in older adults following hospital discharge, and it results in substantial use of healthcare resources. In...

Chemsex linked with increased diagnoses of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections

Chemsex--the use of crystallised methamphetamine, mephedrone, γ-hydroxybutyrate or γ-butyrolactone and to a lesser extent cocaine and ketamine to facilitate sex--has emerged as a new phenomenon...

Lifestyle counseling program may reduce risk of certain cancers

A 5-year healthy lifestyle counseling program for adult men was linked with a reduced risk of developing cancers related to overweight, diet, and smoking over...

Study examines treatment options for women with recurrent ovarian cancer

New research indicates that for women with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer whose cancer has relapsed after surgery, a second surgery is worth considering. The population-based...

Evening use of light-emitting tablets may disrupt healthy sleep

A new Physiological Reports study reveals that evening use of light-emitting tablets can induce delays in desired bedtimes, suppress secretion of melatonin (the hormone that...

NIST puts the optical microscope under the microscope to achieve atomic accuracy

Credit: NIST Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that the optical microscope can be used to detect, track and image objects much smaller...

UTIA research continues to advance biofuels, bioenergy and biobased products

Credit: T. Salvador, courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Researchers with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture continue to be at the forefront of the...

UTA bioengineer earns AHA grant to study biomechanical influences on cardiac development

Credit: UT Arlington A University of Texas at Arlington researcher is working to determine which gene expressions affect the development of which parts of the...

Magnesium magnificent for plasmonic applications

Credit: Ringe Group/Rice University Rice University researchers have synthesized and isolated plasmonic magnesium nanoparticles that show all the promise of their gold, silver and aluminum...

Pigs that digest their nutrients could reduce pork industry’s carbon footprint

Giving pigs the ability to digest more nutrients in their grains could help reduce the pork industry's environmental impact, says new research published in eLife....

The liver stage of the malaria parasite Plasmodium (blue) relies on a host protein called aquaporin-3 (pink) to survive and copy itself. Inhibiting the function of aquaporin-3 may provide a new way to fight the proliferation of the Plasmodium parasite and prevent malaria before symptoms start. Credit: Dora Posfai, Duke University

Malaria-causing parasite manipulates liver cells to survive

When the malaria-causing Plasmodium parasite first slips into the human bloodstream, injected by the bite of an infected mosquito, it does not immediately target red...

From a model of fluids to the birth of a new field in computational physics

It may sound like the stuff of fairy tales, but in the 1950s two numerical models initially developed as a pet project by physicists led...

How Australia got planted

Credit: Courtesy of Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network A new study has uncovered when and why the native vegetation that today dominates much of Australia first...

The gypsum gravity chute: A phytoplankton-elevator to the ocean floor

Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths. Experts from the...

UNH researchers find invasive seaweed makes fish change their behavior