Kaiser Permanente to examine role of environmental factors in childhood obesity
OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 15, 2016 - Kaiser Permanente researchers have received a major new grant from the National Institutes of Health to study how exposures...
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Less sensitive temperature regulation a key to hibernation-like torpor
Credit: RIKEN Some animals can enter a hibernation-like state called daily torpor that reduces the amount of energy needed to survive when food is unavailable....
New insights into cause of phantom limb pain may have therapeutic benefits
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Phantom limb pain is the pain experienced following loss of a limb, either from injury or amputation. This sensation...
Winter conception increases mothers’ diabetes risk
Research led by the University of Adelaide has found that women whose babies are conceived in winter are more likely to develop gestational diabetes during...
Wind and solar energy projects could bring 5,000 new jobs to rural Minnesota
Minnesota has undergone a remarkable transformation in its energy landscape over the past decade. Coal, once the dominant fuel source for Minnesota's electric utilities, has...
New way to make low-cost solar cell technology
Credit: Jack Fox, ANU. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a new way to fabricate high efficiency semi-transparent perovskite solar cells in...
UH Cancer Center researcher finds new driver of an aggressive form of brain cancer
Credit: UHCancerCenter University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain...
Real men don’t say ‘cute’
Credit: Social Psychological and Personality Science, 2016. What's in a tweet? From gender to education, the words used on social media carry impressions to others....
New study shows racial/ethnic variations in quitline reach among US smokers
Quitlines, hotlines that provide free cessation services for smokers, appear to be reaching minority populations that typically underutilize cessation treatments and have high smoking prevalence,...
New protein provides critical link between aging and age-dependent disease
The discovery of a novel protein that links aging and age-dependent retinal diseases could lead to potential new treatments for conditions that cause sight loss...
Scripps Florida scientists discover clues to altered brain wiring in autism
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute (Photo by James McEntee.) JUPITER, FL - November 15, 2016 - Autism is an agonizing puzzle, a complex mixture of...
Scientists ‘plug in’ to circuitry behind sex in male fruit flies
Researchers from the University of Oxford have identified a small neural circuit in male fruit flies that has evolved to allow them to perform the...
Cow goes moo: Artificial intelligence-based system associates images with sounds
The cow goes "moo." The pig goes "oink." A child can learn from a picture book to associate images with sounds, but building a computer...
Leishmaniasis infection on the rise in US ecotourists, soldiers
ARLINGTON, Va. - Driven by burgeoning ecotourism and military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a parasitic infection called leishmaniasis is showing up in more U.S....
Global declines in adolescent childbearing related to national income, education expenditures
New York -- Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health found that an important explanation for declining rates of global adolescent fertility is...
