An exercise in good health
A new Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association led by Queen's University professor Robert Ross provides unequivocal evidence to confirm that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF),...
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How kids’ brains respond to a late night up
Any parent can tell you about the consequences of their child not getting enough sleep. But there is far less known about the details of...
Pine product offers fresh take on fine chemical synthesis
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 28, 2016) - The goop from pine trees that contains compounds known as terpenes is used in the...
New finding about a protein that enables our brains and muscles to talk
Credit: Phil Jones, Augusta University Senior Photographer AUGUSTA, Ga. (Nov. 28, 2016) - A huge colony of receptors must be optimally positioned and functioning on...
Engineering success
Credit: Sonia Fernandez If you're a college undergrad, you know full well your third year is your moment of truth. Gone are the days of...
NASA’s Aqua satellite sees remnants of Tropical Cyclone Tokage
Credit: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Tokage fell apart after crossing the Philippines and moving into the South China Sea where wind...
Secret phenotypes: Disease devils in invisible details
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Hang Lu When a microscopic lab worm grows an eye-popping oddity, scientists locate the mutated gene that caused it....
Nano factories to prevent bacterial colonization
Credit: University of Konstanz The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 16:00 in the university's Senatssaal. The funding from the...
Model could shatter a mystery of glass
Credit: (Video by Ge Zhang, Department of Chemistry) A glass is a curious material in between liquid and solid states of matter, but eventually glass...
A new technique for structural color, inspired by birds
Credit: (Image courtesy of Henning Galinski) A peacock's bright teal and brilliant blue feathers are not the result of pigments but rather nanoscale networks that...
What’s up with Madagascar?
Credit: Rando Trek VTT Madagascar, the big island off the east coast of Africa with the lemurs and baobabs, is thought to be sitting in...
Modern hunter-gatherers show value of exercise
Credit: Photo: Brian Wood In a remote area of north-central Tanzania, men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt...
Young toddlers can tell when others hold false beliefs, study finds
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) A new study finds that, under the right conditions, 2 1/2-year-old children can answer questions about people acting on false...
Largest resource of human protein-protein interactions can help interpret genomic data
An international research team has developed the largest database of protein-to-protein interaction networks, a resource that can illuminate how numerous disease-associated genes contribute to disease..
Smart patch releases blood thinners as needed
Credit: Yuqi Zhang An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a smart patch designed to monitor a patient's blood and release blood-thinning drugs as needed...
