There’s money in your wearable fitness tracker
Your wearable fitness tracker is great at counting the number of steps you took today, but it could also provide a new source of currency...
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Cosmic connection
We humans may be more aligned with the universe than we realize. According to research published in the journal Physical Review C, neutron stars and...
Study highlights diversity of arthropods found in US homes — From swabs of dust
Credit: Anne A. Madden, with the assistance from Robert Mcgugan at the University of Colorado, Boulder Nanomaterials Characterization Facility. False-coloring done by Robin Hacker-Cary. Researchers..
Bacteria can’t get a grip on self-healing, slippery surface
BOSTON - Implanted medical devices like catheters, surgical mesh and dialysis systems are ideal surfaces on which bacteria can colonize and form hard-to-kill sheets called...
Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --When an elderly loved one is discharged from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility (SNF), the family's hope is that they will...
Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- There are plenty of cellphone apps on the market designed to help people monitor their sleep patterns. The apps generally record data...
Study finds mild exercise helps decrease pain and improve activity level in older adults
Credit: Hospital for Special Surgery It's never too late to reap the benefits of exercise, and that includes older adults with arthritis and other muscle...
Stimulating the brain makes exercising the legs feel easier
Credit: University of Kent Research led by the University of Kent shows stimulation of the brain impacts on endurance exercise performance by decreasing perception of...
HybPiper: A bioinformatic pipeline for processing target-enrichment data
With the rapid rise of next-generation sequencing technologies, disparate fields from cancer research to evolutionary biology have seen a drastic shift in the way DNA...
U-M study bodes well for low-carb eaters
ANN ARBOR--Three low-carb meals within 24 hours lowers post-meal insulin resistance by more than 30 percent, but high-carb meals sustain insulin resistance, a condition that...
Moving toward a gold standard in patient handoff protocols
You're in the hospital under around-the-clock care for whatever it is that ails you. During any 24-hour period, your physicians and nursing staff will change...
Could a cannabinoid pill treat concussion?
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine The goal of finding a treatment for concussion may be one step closer due to a new...
New discovery could help oral medicines work better
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (11/01/16) -- A team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and The Dow Chemical Company have discovered a new method for customizing...
Toronto Climathon results in surprising solutions to transport emissions
Credit: @wonrobot / Twitter During the Toronto Climathon, a 24-hour marathon session in downtown Toronto, students, entrepreneurs, big thinkers, technical experts and app developers from...
NREL researchers discover how a bacterium, Clostridium thermocellum, utilizes both CO2 and cellulose
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) made the surprise discovery that a metabolic pathway to take up CO2 exists...
