That sound makes me dizzy
Credit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah College of Engineering For some people, certain sounds like a trumpet blowing a particular tone can make them dizzy, and...
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Wetting of surfaces is surprisingly difficult to measure reliably
Credit: Mika Latikka / Aalto University Knowing how surface materials interact with liquids is crucial to everything from printing to recovering oil spills from water....
JST releases ‘TogoVar’, an integrated database for Japanese genome variants/variations
Credit: Japan Science and Technology Agency Japanese medical genome researchers had long been suffering from the lack of publicly available information about allele frequencies of...
Towards winning the war on feral wild rabbits
New research shows how two biological control agents have been effective in reducing the numbers of feral rabbits in Australia. Using data from the largest...
Want to be an elite weightlifter? It takes a strong pair of knees
London, July 10, 2018 -- Researchers from China's Ningbo University have discovered what makes the critical difference between an elite snatch style weightlifter and a...
Revealing the mechanism behind animals’ sixth sense
Credit: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) An international team of researcher, led by Professor Kyuhyung Kim from Department of Brain and Cognitive...
Unique brain ‘fingerprint’ can predict drug effectiveness
Credit: Yasser Iturria Medina Personalized medicine - delivering therapies specially tailored to a patient's unique physiology - has been a goal of researchers and doctors...
Alternative splicing is crucial to muscle mass maintenance
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Despite the importance that changes in muscle mass have in aging, overall body metabolism and in chronic disease, we still...
Altered gene regulation is more widespread in cancer than expected
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine A large-scale study provides new insights into the mechanisms that can lead to cancer. It can happen when genes mutate,...
Biologists discover process that neutralizes tumors
Credit: Hui Lab, UC San Diego Researchers from the University of California San Diego have identified an unexpected mechanism that could help determine whether a...
Fishy chemicals in farmed salmon
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering/Carla Ng PITTSBURGH (July 10, 2018) ... Persistent organic pollutants--or POPs--skulk around the environment threatening human health through direct contact, in..
Asian residents are exposed to 9 times more air pollution than Americans or Europeans
According to the World Health Organisation, about 88 percent of premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries in Asia can be attributed to air pollution....
As brain extracts meaning from vision, study tracks progression of processing
Here's the neuroscience of a neglected banana (and a lot of other things in daily life): whenever you look at its color - green in...
Developmental screening and surveillance rates remain low, new study suggests
Only about one-third of young children in the U.S. receive recommended screenings or surveillance designed to catch developmental delays. Findings reveal wide variations in rates...
Mapping the genetic controllers in heart disease
Researchers have developed a 3D map of the gene interactions that play a key role in cardiovascular disease, a study in eLife reports. The map...
