The late effects of stress: New insights into how the brain responds to trauma
Credit: Chattarji laboratory Mrs. M would never forget that day. She was walking along a busy road next to the vegetable market when two goons...
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Lotus stir-fry scores high in consumer panels
AUBURN, AL - Lotus, an aquatic perennial vegetable native to many subtropical and temperate zones, is cultivated extensively throughout Asia. Lotus rhizomes, stems, flowers, seeds,...
Management practices recommended for specialty cider apples
MOUNT VERNON, WA - The hard cider industry is experiencing remarkable growth; statistics show that US hard cider production increased 22-fold from 2007-2015. To meet...
Strip tillage, rowcovers for organic cucurbit production
Credit: Photo courtesy of Jason Lilley. UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - Plasticulture systems, the use of polyethylene mulch on raised beds with drip irrigation, are common...
New pharmacon allows testicular tumors to shrink
Credit: © Photo: Simon Schneider/Institute for Pathology/UKB Testicular cancer is the most common malignant tumor disease in men between 20 and 40 years of age....
Quasi noise-free digital holography
Digital Holography is a powerful imaging technique for 3D vision and display systems. However, the use of coherent light sources introduces annoying visual phenomenon, namely...
NTU to develop traffic management solutions so drones can fly safely in Singapore
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore With Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones gaining popularity globally for commercial, recreational and industry purposes, hundreds of UAVs may...
A material that could revolutionize photonic and opto-electronic devices
Credit: World Scientific The importance of graphene can hardly be overstated. Graphene is the thinnest material comprised of atoms. It is only one atomic layer...
Three centuries of excellence: The story of a world-famous chemistry department
Credit: World Scientific Why is the history of IC chemistry important? The department spans three centuries - the 19th, 20th and 21st, and today still...
Secrets of human protein interactions unveiled by massive sequencing and coevolution
Cells operate like an incredibly well-synchronized orchestra of molecular interactions among proteins. Understanding this molecular network is essential not only to understand how an organism...
Miniscule amounts of impurities in vacuum greatly affecting OLED lifetime
Credit: Hiroshi Fujimoto and William J. Potscavage, Jr. Reproducibility is a necessity for science but has often eluded researchers studying the lifetime of organic light-emitting...
Magnetic stem cells for gene engineering
Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists from the Tomsk Polytechnic University's Laboratory of Novel Dosage are developing a technology to control mesenchymal stem cells of patients....
Traffic noise reduces birds’ response to alarm calls
Credit: J. Damsky and M. Gall Pollution can take many forms--including noise. Excess noise in the environment from sources such as traffic can have negative...
Jawing away: Bahama pupfish study identifies candidate genes driving food-niches
Loading video... Credit: Chris Martin, University of North Carolina Within the salty lakes of the Bahama's San Salvador Island is an amazing diversity of fishes...
Genome study reveals ‘gray zone’ of animals transitioning from 1 species to 2 — PLOS
Genome study reveals widespread "gray zone" of animals transitioning from one species to two. There is usually no ambiguity about species delineation when distant lineages...
