Digital device overload linked to obesity risk
If your attention gets diverted in different directions by smartphones and other digital devices, take note: Media multitasking has now been linked to obesity. New...
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Plant pathologist leads research to stop spread of citrus-destroying disease
UC Riverside's Hailing Jin is principal investigator of USDA grant that also supports vaccine development to fight huanglongbing, or citrus greening diseaseCredit: Jing lab, UC...
Brightly-colored fairy wrens not attacked by predators more than their dull counterparts
In "Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds," published in the American Naturalist, Kristal E. Cain examines the factors...
Study identifies potential fix for hospital star rating program
Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT - Allowing for more quality measures in the federal government's Quality Star Rating program would create a fairer and...
Team models cocaine trafficking response to counternarcotic efforts
Credit: Sara Santiago For five decades, the U.S. government's mission to intercept or seize cocaine and other drugs entering the United States originating from South...
New role for a driver of metastatic cancers
Salk scientists uncover the mechanism of a gene to better target cancer therapyCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 2, 2019) Metastatic ovarian, prostate and breast cancers...
Study debunks ‘depression genes’ hypotheses
Research finds no substantial association between risk, 18 highly-studied genes Over the past quarter-century, researchers have published hundreds of studies suggesting a small set of...
Mosses — Dynamic and built to last
Credit: Bernard Goffinet/UConn Photo In a Nature Communications paper published today, an international research team including UConn's Bernard Goffinet used DNA-sequencing technology to reconstruct the...
NJIT researchers detect minute levels of disease with a nanotechnology-enhanced biochip
Credit: NJIT The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of...
Blue light could treat superbug infections
MRSA, a superbug with the ability to dodge many common antibiotics, could be cured with blue lightCredit: Purdue University/Rebecca Wilcox Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a...
Researchers advance in the development of ‘papaya sugarcane’
Description of genes involved in sugarcane root cell separation could lead to the development of varieties with softened cell walls similar to those of papaya,...
The complicated future of offshore wind power in the US
Research lays out thorny challenges facing renewable sector Over the past decade, wind power production in the U.S. has tripled, becoming the largest source of...
Omega-3 fatty acid supplements, hypothyroidism could lower risk of T-zone lymphoma in dogs
Credit: Sallie Cox Dogs that receive omega-3 fatty acid supplements or have hypothyroidism may be less likely to develop T-zone lymphoma (TZL). Those are two...
Bentham book series indexed in Scopus
Scopus has recently included the following eBooks for coverage in its database. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific...
West Virginia University revs up computer resources to help move region forward
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - West Virginia University, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, announced Tuesday the creation of one of the state's most...
