Researchers at Trinity College have found that socio-economic inequalities in children's body mass index (BMI) emerge during the pre-school years and widen across childhood and...
The human opioid system contributes to the regulation of emotions, pleasure and pain. Opioids are strong analgesics. In addition to effectively relieving pain, external opioids...
Vanishing animals command headlines but declining plant diversity also imperils humans; researchers and educators explain how curing 'plant blindness' is essential to saving biodiversity and...
Credit: A. Kumatani An international research group has improved graphene's ability to catalyse the 'hydrogen evolution reaction', which releases hydrogen as a result of passing...
Growth factors VEGF-C and VEGF-D are contributors to the spread of cancer Together with its partners, a research group led by Docent Michael Jeltsch at...
Credit: NASA/SDO. Scientists from Ireland and France today announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun's atmosphere....
Credit: ©DGIST DGIST faculty clarified that the fundamental neural circuit mechanism involved in antidepressant efficacy to treat depression, one of serious mental diseases in today's...
The most severe pandemic in recent history, killing some 50 million people worldwide, the Spanish influenza, may have emerged up to two years earlier than...
Les leptospires appartiennent au phylum des spirochètes et sont constitués de bactéries saprophytes et pathogènes. Les espèces pathogènes sont responsables d'une zoonose: la leptospirose, où...
Source of disease prevalence information impacts effectiveness of vaccination programsCredit: FEMA/Mark Wolfe Computational modeling of social networks suggests that vaccination programs are more successful in...
Credit: Florida Atlantic University Measles was declared eradicated in the United States in 2000, but has reappeared in recent months in the form of outbreaks...
The following papers will be presented at the ESOC conference in Milan and published simultaneously in either The Lancet or The Lancet Neurology journals. All...
Credit: David Walter Scientists from the University of Bristol and the Natural History Museum in London have reconstructed the evolutionary history of the chelicerates, the...
Credit: Martin Stevens Crabs from a single species rely on different camouflage techniques depending on what habitat they live in, new research shows. University of...
Credit: The University of Edinburgh Cells in the body are wired like computer chips to direct signals that instruct how they function, research suggests. Unlike...
