Greater job satisfaction for transgender employees
Transgender individuals in the workplace can sometimes feel stigmatized, either through the actions and attitudes of their coworkers, or through their own fears of being...
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Internet of Things (IoT) will demand a step-change in search solutions
Credit: University of Surrey Experts in next generation communications outline how internet search mechanisms will need to change to support the Internet of Things (IoT)...
Researchers develop soft, microfluidic ‘lab on the skin’ for sweat analysis
A Northwestern University research team has developed a first-of-its-kind soft, flexible microfluidic device that easily adheres to the skin and measures the wearer's sweat to...
Biologist awarded diabetes research prize for studies of fat cells
Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...
Jean-Claude Kieffer and François Légaré honored by the Royal Society of Canada
(Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS) Professors Jean-Claude Kieffer and François Legaré from INRS's Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications were honored at the Royal...
For wearable electronic devices, NIST shows plastic holes are golden
Credit: Reyes-Hernandez/NIST In science, sometimes the best discoveries come when you're exploring something else entirely. That's the case with recent findings from the National Institut..
Just add water: New discovery in plant-disease mechanism
We all know that when it rains, plants grow. When it doesn't, they don't. However, new research led by plant scientists at Michigan State University...
Did comets kick-start life on Earth? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 2016 -- The origins of life on Earth are still shrouded in mystery. One compelling possibility is...
Stuttering related to brain circuits that control speech production
Researchers at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have conducted the first study of its kind, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to look at brain...
New study reveals when West Antarctica’s largest glacier started retreating
Credit: James Smith @ British Antarctic Survey Reporting this week (Wednesday Nov. 23) in the journal Nature an international team led by British Antarctic Survey...
Uncovering the secrets of friction on graphene
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon in sheets just one atom in thick, has been the subject of widespread research, in large...
JNeurosci: Highlights From the Nov. 23 issue
Check out these newsworthy studies from the November 23, 2016, issue of JNeurosci. Media interested in obtaining the full text of the studies should contact...
Fat cell biologist awarded diabetes research prize
Credit: Charles LeDuc/Columbia University Medical Center NEW YORK, NY (November 23, 2016)--Columbia University has awarded the 2016 Naomi Berrie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Diabetes...
The eye has it: Vitreous gel could hold clues to visual impairment
Research is underway at Rochester Institute of Technology that will give scientists a better understanding of the vitreous humor, or gel, that fills the eye...
Cancer signaling pathway could illuminate new avenue to therapy
MADISON, Wis. -- Researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and Carbone Cancer Center have better defined a pro-growth signaling...
