Research targets PFOA threat to drinking water
A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close their drinking water supplies. Because...
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How the brain recognizes what the eye sees
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (June 8, 2017) If you think self-driving cars can't get here soon enough, you're not alone. But programming computers...
Study finds failure to sustain reductions in carcinogens in cigarettes
Waterloo, Ontario: Tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNAs) are potent carcinogens formed predominantly during the cigarette manufacturing process. Despite initial success lowering TSNA levels in cigaret..
Simple tasks don’t test brain’s true complexity
Credit: Xaq Pitkow/Dora Angelaki The human brain naturally makes its best guess when making a decision, and studying those guesses can be very revealing about...
The brain’s hippocampus can organize memories for events as well as places
Credit: RIKEN People organize memories in photo albums, journals or calendars, but how does the brain first put events in order? Though a great deal...
Overriding the urge to sleep
Credit: Gradinaru lab/Caltech Caltech researchers have identified a neural circuit in the brain that controls wakefulness. The findings have implications for treating insomnia, oversleeping, and...
Scientific advances in thoracic oncology in 2016 highlighted by the IASLC
DENVER - Capturing and summarizing the remarkable progress in lung cancer prevention, diagnosis, staging and treatment in 2016, the International Association for the Study of...
Study of sisters helps explain dad’s influence on risky sexual behavior
What is it about a father that affects his teenage daughter's likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behavior? Researchers have long shown links between father...
Nepal: 15 years after legalizing abortions, gaps in access, equity, quality continue to exist
(Boston)--Nepal is often heralded as a model of successful implementation and rapid scale-up of safe abortion services. Yet despite the legalization of the procedure in...
Sensitivity to inequity is in wolves’ and dogs’ blood
Credit: Robert Bayer Not only dogs but also wolves react to inequity - similar to humans or primates. This has been confirmed in a new...
Autonomous machines edge towards greater independence
Cars that can drive autonomously have recently made headlines. In the near future, machines that can learn autonomously will become increasingly present in our lives....
SpaceX Dragon to deliver research to Space Station
Credit: NASA SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Dragon spacecraft for its eleventh commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station June 1 from NASA's...
Nanotechnology reveals hidden depths of bacterial ‘machines’
Credit: Dr Luning Liu, University of Liverpool New research from the University of Liverpool, published in the journal Nanoscale, has probed the structure and material...
Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence
COLUMBUS, Ohio - While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the strength of a...
Male sexual behavior linked to elevated male sex hormone receptors in muscles of sex-changing fish
Credit: Kory Gozjack ATLANTA--Sex-changing fish exhibit differences in androgen receptor (AR) expression in muscles that are highly sensitive to androgens (male sex hormones) and essential...
