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There are significant gaps in our knowledge on the evolution of sex, according to a research review on sex chromosomes from Lund University in Sweden....

Small non-profit’s unconventional approach offers new hope with autism suramin trial

DALLAS, TX - May 26, 2017 - Results released today from an N of One: Autism Research Foundation supported clinical trial in boys with autism...

Penn study finds gray matter density increases during adolescence

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- For years, the common narrative in human developmental neuroimaging has been that gray matter in the brain - the tissue...

Penn Medicine’s Irene Hurford receives Exemplary Psychiatrist Award

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA -- Irene Hurford, MD, an assistant professor in the department of Psychiatry, has received a 2017 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award from the...

Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands

Credit: Courtesy of Adena Rissman/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public...

Engines of twingenuity: NASA’s twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds

Credit: NASA/Time If you took all the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) in your body and strung it end-to-end, it would reach all the way to Pluto...

Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe

Credit: Tim Fulton, IODP-JRSO CORVALLIS, Ore. - Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years was transported thousands of kilometers...

A flip switch for binge-eating?

Credit: Carla Schaffer / AAAS Researchers have identified a subgroup of neurons in the mouse brain that, upon activation, immediately prompt binge-like eating. Furthermore, repeated...

Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth

Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal and uncontrollable growth of cells....

Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone

Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable through electrical voltage - a...

US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster

Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) relied on faulty analysis...

Researchers develop magnetic switch to turn on and off a strange quantum property

Credit: Christopher Gutiérrez, Daniel Walkup/NIST When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when she started. But for electrons...

The big star that couldn’t become a supernova

Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Jeffries (STScI) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the first time in history, astronomers have been able to watch as a dying...

Jupiter’s complex transient auroras

Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic moon Io and interaction with...

Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole