Digital offense: Anonymity dulls our moral outrage
Washington, DC - From online forums to community groups, research and experience shows people are more willing to insult and use menacing language online than...
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Cessation fatigue predicts which smokers making a quit attempt are likely to relapse
Credit: Sarah Pack, Medical University of South Carolina Although there is good news about smoking -- only 14 percent of Americans smoke, the lowest number...
‘Druggable’ cancer target found in pathway regulating organ size
Credit: Wei-Chien Yuan/Boston Children's Hospital It's known that cancer involves unchecked cell growth and that a biological pathway that regulates organ size, known at the...
Intelligent sprayers poised to transform nursery industry
Credit: A. Fulcher, courtesy UTIA KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Producers of landscape trees, shrubs, vines and perennials, all of which are known as nursery crops, are...
Human images from world’s first total-body scanner unveiled
Credit: UC Davis and Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body...
How the brain switches between different sets of rules
CAMBRIDGE, MA - Cognitive flexibility -- the brain's ability to switch between different rules or action plans depending on the context -- is key to...
Healthcare providers — not hackers — leak more of your data
Credit: PxHere - creative commons Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health...
Preserving shoulder function, quality of life, in breast cancer patients
ANN ARBOR--After a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2015, Tina Harrison discovered that she did, indeed, have breast cancer--it just hadn't been detected. Harrison, of Pinckney,...
Making X-ray microscopy 10 times faster
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory Microscopes make the invisible visible. And compared to conventional light microscopes, transmission x-ray microscopes (TXM) can see into samples with much...
Gene vital for post-stroke recovery identified for the first time
Having certain specific variants of the PATJ gene predisposes to worse recovery from ischemic stroke. 7 out of 10 patients with these variants suffer severe...
New survey highlights digital health challenges
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 19, 2018 - As health system leaders look ahead to the challenges and opportunities of the coming year, they are increasing their spending...
Bio jet fuels good for the climate, but technologies need tweaking
Norwegian aviation executives like to joke among themselves that when God created aviation, he was thinking of Norway. The country's long coastline and mountainous interior...
Solution for next generation nanochips comes out of thin air
Credit: RMIT University Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents...
Mite genomes reveal ‘mighty surprising’ fragrant and colorful secrets
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have uncovered some unexpected 'foreign' genes in the tiny itch-inducing chigger mite and its more benign but enormous cousin,...
Critical collections
More than a century ago, when botanists and naturalists were in the field collecting plant and animal specimens, they couldn't have imagined that scientists would...
