Singapore’s first robot masseuse ‘EMMA’ starts work
Credit: NTU Singapore A robot masseuse has started work in Singapore today. Named Emma, short for Expert Manipulative Massage Automation, it specialises in back and...
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Type 1 diabetes and the microbiota: MAIT cells as biomarkers and new therapeutic targets
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that develops when the immune system attacks beta cells in the pancreas. This destructive process is often...
Insight into our 50-plus lifespan still evolving, genetic study shows
It is an evolutionary riddle that has long puzzled scientists ... now the quest to find out why we live beyond 50 is being helped...
Molecular basis for memory and learning
October 2017. Learning and memory are two important functions of the brain that are based on the brain's plasticity. Scientists from Goethe University Frankfurt report...
Research IDs key factors that help women ex-convicts avoid recidivism
New research identifies four factors that help women ex-convicts avoid committing crimes, offering insights that can be used to help former inmates integrate more successfully...
Gene drives have the potential to suppress mosquito populations, but resistant mosquitoes crop up
Credit: NIAID, Flickr, CC BY Researchers successfully built a gene drive to reduce female fertility in the mosquito that spreads malaria, but mutations gradually arose...
Computer program detects differences between human cells
"How many different cell types are there in a human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows," says Professor Stein Aerts from...
Study warns of pumpkin-colored zombies
Credit: Copyright D. Johnson/VIMS. Just in time for Halloween, a new study reveals that pumpkin-colored zombies may be running rampant through your local salt marsh....
Calorie postings on menus cause more health mentions in online restaurant reviews
Key Takeaway: In 2008 New York City introduced a rule mandating calorie postings for chain restaurants that was intended to induce healthier choices by making...
Clear lakes disguise impaired water quality
Credit: John A. Downing Looks can be deceiving. Look at a hundred lakes in the agricultural heartland of the United States and you will likely...
What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment
Credit: (c) Carl Fuldner and Shane DuBay, The University of Chicago and The Field Museum Horned Larks are cute little songbirds with white bellies and...
Genetically boosting the nutritional value of corn could benefit millions
Credit: NASA Rutgers scientists have found an efficient way to enhance the nutritional value of corn - the world's largest commodity crop - by inserting...
The human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them
Credit: Ning Qian/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Scientists at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute have contributed to solving a paradox of perception, literally upending models of..
How honeybees read the waggle dance
Credit: Courtesy of Ai et al. Neurons that enable honeybees to sense the waggle dance -- a form of symbolic communication used by female bees...
Watch out! Brain network calculates impact of approaching object
A neuroimaging study of two monkeys published in JNeurosci identifies a brain network that tracks the location of an object approaching the face and anticipates...
