Consumer-use baby monitors have little proven benefit for healthy infants
Credit: Childen's Hospital of Philadelphia It sounds simple and harmless--an electronic sensor attached to a baby's sock that monitors vital signs and alerts parents on...
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Swarm of underwater robots mimics ocean life
Credit: Scripps Oceanography/Jaffe Lab for Underwater Imaging Underwater robots developed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego offer...
NAS honors five for major contributions in physical science and engineering
WASHINGTON -- The National Academy of Sciences will honor five individuals with awards in recognition of their extraordinary scientific achievements in physical science and engineering....
Bursts of methane may have warmed early Mars
Credit: NASA The presence of water on ancient Mars is a paradox. There's plenty of geographical evidence that rivers periodically flowed across the planet's surface....
New sensors can detect single protein molecules
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- For the first time, MIT engineers have designed sensors that can detect single protein molecules as they are secreted by cells or...
Large pre-ACA Medicaid expansion did not level health disparities in cancer surgery
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- An analysis of the New York State's Medicaid expansion, which predated the 2010 Affordable Care Act, finds substantial decrease in...
News media registration open for ENDO 2017: The 99th Annual Meeting & EXPO in Orlando, Fla.
Washington, DC--Members of the media can now register to cover the latest advances in hormone health and science at ENDO 2017, the Endocrine Society's 99th...
Timing of chemo affects inflammation, mice study suggests
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The time of day that breast cancer chemotherapy drugs are given affects the amount of damaging inflammation in the body, a new...
Role of thrust and drag clarified for swimming microorganisms
Credit: Felderhof WASHINGTON, D.C., Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -- For years, B. Ubbo Felderhof, a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Germany's RWTH...
Modeling the rhythmic electrical activities of the brain
Credit: Leandro Alonso WASHINGTON, D.C., January 24, 2017 -- Researchers studying the brain have long been interested in its neural oscillations, the rhythmic electrical activity...
Prenatal infection may alter brain development via epigenetic changes
Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 24, 2017 - Maternal infection during pregnancy increases the risk for psychiatric disorders in the child, but the path between the two...
Can mushrooms help delay or prevent Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan. 24, 2017 -- Certain edible and medicinal mushrooms contain bioactive compounds that may enhance nerve...
Scientists lay foundations for new type of solar cell
Credit: Dirk Raiser, MPIbC/DESY An interdisciplinary team of researchers has laid the foundations for an entirely new type of photovoltaic cell. In this new method,...
Monash awarded grant to lead global slum revitalization research
Credit: CRC Water Sensitive Cities A global charitable foundation has awarded an AUD $14 million grant to an international research consortium led by Monash University....
Your (social media) votes matter
Credit: Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame When Tim Weninger conducted two large-scale experiments on Reddit - otherwise known as "the front page of the internet"...
