Do most Mount Everest climbers use medications, and should they?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 14, 2016 -The ethics of using medications to improve performance and increase the likelihood of...
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Researchers discovered elusive half-quantum vortices in a superfluid
Credit: Credit: Ella Maru Studio Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, and P.L. Kapitza Institute in Moscow have discovered half-quantum vortices in superfluid helium. This vortex...
New book explores Echinacea, a medicinal plant with roots in Kansas
Credit: Kelly Kindscher LAWRENCE -- In February 1805, during their Corps of Discovery Expedition, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark encountered a purplish daisy prized by...
N-acetylcysteine shows early promise in reducing alcohol use in marijuana-dependent teens
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina An over-the-counter antioxidant known as N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is showing early promise at promoting abstinence from or reduced use of...
Anti-tumor effect of novel plasma medicine caused by lactate
Credit: Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan - Physical plasma is one of the four fundamental states of matter, together with solid, liquid, and gas, and can...
Cigar warnings: Do teens believe them?
CHAPEL HILL, NC - A majority of adolescents in the United States report current cigar warning labels to be very believable, according to a new...
Making (sound) waves in the fight against cancer
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio Each year, thousands of Canadian men with prostate cancer undergo biopsies to help their doctors better understand the progression and nature of...
Greater readiness repels cyber threats to manufacturers
Together with the National Emergency Supply Agency and the private sector, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed tailored solutions bringing improved cyber security...
A hardware-based modeling approach for real world collaborative multi-robot tasks
Technological revolution means robots no longer are the song of the future. The Governor of the Bank of England predicts today that up to half...
Electronic ‘hairy skin’ could give robots a more human sense of touch (video)
Electronic-skin prototypes are stretchy, thin films that can sense temperature, pressure and even monitor blood oxygen or alcohol levels. But most of these devices are...
New approach to liver transplantation: Using a damaged liver to replace a dying liver
Credit: Intermountain Medical Center There's new hope for patients with liver disease who are waiting for a donor liver to become available for transplantation. Doctors...
Gene transfer on the fungal highway
Credit: Berthold et al. 2016 in Scientific Reports For bacteria, soil is difficult terrain, with dry areas and air spaces presenting insurmountable obstacles. In order...
Efforts needed to stop the spread of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii
Credit: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Acinetobacter baumannii is the cause of difficult-to-treat infections in healthcare settings in Europe due to its increasing...
Promotion of nickel (Ni) allergy by anamnestic sensitization
This report provides evidence that the solitary pre-sensitization to LPS is essential for the onset of Ni allergy by shifting the Th1/Th2 immune balance toward...
Carbonaceous chondrites shed light on the origins of life in the universe
The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports. The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA's Antarctic collection...
