Credit: Richard Spontak A multi-institutional research team has developed a new electroactive polymer material that can change shape and size when exposed to a relatively...
Credit: Dirk Notz For each tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2) that any person on our planet emits, three square metres of Arctic summer sea ice...
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for $3.6 million over five years will support formation of MARISA (Mid-Atlantic Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments), a...
Credit: Shigeki Moriguchi Researchers at Tohoku University have found a promising treatment for Alzheimer's disease, by noticing a similarity in the way insulin signaling works...
Credit: The Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Australian emergency medicine researchers have successfully trialled an alternative deep sedative for patients in the emergency department. In..
Boston, MA - Women have a two-fold higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease than men, yet strikingly little is known about how changes in brain...
Synapses, the place where brain cells contact one another, play a pivotal role in the transmission of toxic proteins. This allows neurodegenerative diseases such as...
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) A key genetic switch in the liver regulates glucose metabolism and insulin action in other...
It should be obvious that those with greater self-control live a healthier lifestyle. After all, it takes self-control to exercise before work, or forego fried...
Credit: American Chemical Society Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy, and the facilities that produce it give off less greenhouse gases than other power plants. But...
Artificial "cells" could someday zoom around in the body and deliver medicines to specific locations, act as in-tissue diagnosticians and provide viable replacements for whole...
Credit: Venu Raman An experimental drug that targets abnormally high levels of a protein linked to cancer growth appears to significantly reduce the proliferation of...
Credit: Prentiss Balcom (Harvard SEAS) In a new study, Harvard University researchers find over 90 percent of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to...
CLEVELAND, Ohio (November 9, 2016)--In the battle of the sexes, women have long claimed that they can remember things better and longer than men can....
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Nov. 9, 2016)--Although many of us don't want to think about grandma still "getting it on," multiple studies show that older women are...
