Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time, Stanford researchers find
Credit: L.A. Cicero When we are in a deep slumber our brain's activity ebbs and flows in big, obvious waves, like watching a tide of...
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Burnes receives GSA’s 2016 Senior Service America Junior Scholar Award
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and Senior Service America, Inc., have named David Burnes, BSc, MSW, PhD, of the University of Toronto as the...
Neuroscientist studies connection between PTSD and alcohol abuse
Credit: Justin Gass As families gather for the holidays this year, many will reminisce, sharing fond memories as they break bread and pass the cranberry...
Szanton receives GSA’s 2016 Senior Service America Senior Scholar Award
The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and Senior Service America, Inc., have named Sarah Szanton, PhD, ANP, FAAN, of the Johns Hopkins University School of...
New police training draws from science of deadly force
Credit: Cori Medeiros, WSU Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. - A portable use-of-force simulator aimed at launching a new era in police training is being rolled out...
For the first time, scientists catch water molecules passing the proton baton
Water conducts electricity, but the process by which this familiar fluid passes along positive charges has puzzled scientists for decades. But in a paper published...
DOE project to evaluate safety of transporting used nuclear fuel
With more than 74,000 metric tons of used nuclear fuel stored at locations around the United States, ensuring the safety of moving it to more...
UTA CAPPA student wins statewide bullet train station design competition
Credit: Texas Central Partners A University of Texas at Arlington student has won a statewide design competition for her Dallas station design for the Texas...
Putting fundamental rights of persons with disabilities on the map
Credit: WORLD Policy Analysis Center, Constitutions Database, 2014 Ten years ago this month, the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with...
Lung function decline accelerates in menopausal women
Credit: ATS Dec. 1, 2016--Menopausal women appear to experience an accelerated decline in lung function, according to new research published online ahead of print in...
Turning off asthma attacks
Working with human immune cells in the laboratory, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have identified a critical cellular "off" switch for the inflammatory immune response...
Kidney disease hospitalization and mortality rates continue to decline in the US
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - According to an annual data report from the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), hospitalization and mortality rates for patients with...
Museum of Natural Science researchers publish the first birds of Bolivia field guide
Credit: Asociación ArmonÃa Bolivia has more species of birds than any other land-locked country in the world. It is sixth in the world in terms...
Study suggests possible new target for treating and preventing Alzheimer’s
Credit: OHSU PORTLAND, Ore. - A new scientific discovery may provide a future avenue for treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease. A study published Nov....
New algorithm could explain human face recognition
MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain's face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology...
