Beware: Children can passively ‘smoke’ marijuana, too
Relaxing with a joint around children is not very wise. Not only do youngsters inhale harmful secondary smoke in the process, but the psychoactive chemicals...
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Understanding necrophilia: A global interdisciplinary approach (cognella)
Credit: University of Huddersfield NO case of necrophilia has ever come before UK courts, although British awareness of the offence is high - and was...
Plants engineered to express a fruit fly gene may help clean up environmental pollutant
Through a process called phytoremediation, researchers are using plants to clean up land contaminated with TNT, a toxic environmental pollutant and possible carcinogen. Now a...
Molecular switches researched in detail
(Ruhr-University Bochum) Seeing, smelling, tasting, regulation of blood pressure -- molecular switches are involved in all of these processes. The mechanism with which these proteins...
Springer offers flexible purchasing option for Springer Book Archives
Credit: Springer Springer now offers its Springer Book Archives (SBA) in smaller year set packages. The new SBA packages are divided up into "eras," and...
Major urinary proteins do not allow kin recognition in male mice
Credit: Kerstin Thonhauser/Vetmeduni Vienna The urine of house mice, unlike humans, contains large amounts of proteins, which are mainly major urinary proteins or MUPs. These...
Miraculous proliferation
Researchers from a group led by ETH professor Martin Loessner discovered a few years ago that rod-shaped Listeria can become spherical. These L-forms differ fundamentally...
Queen’s University expert leading €4m bid to reduce impact of chemicals on long-term health
(Queen's University Belfast) A Queen's University Belfast expert is leading a €4m international initiative to investigate whether natural toxins and manmade chemicals are creating potentiall..
Fighting contaminated land with help from the humble fruit
Scientists have discovered that a gene found in the common fruit fly can be successfully expressed in a plant and used to detoxify land contaminated...
‘Pulling’ bacteria out of blood
Blood poisoning is still fatal in more than 50% of cases, but can be cured if treated at an early stage. The highest priority is...
Public urged to be more body vigilant in fight against cancer, new study finds
New study urges people to be more body vigilant to improve early cancer diagnosis rates. Over a quarter of patients in study fail to contact...
UTHealth scientists discover way of developing test for Parkinson’s disease diagnosis
HOUSTON - (Dec. 6, 2016) - Misfolded proteins associated with Parkinson's disease were detected in cerebrospinal fluid by scientists at McGovern Medical School at The...
Research into the theoretical bases of future wireless communications
The research project to be carried out by Tobias Koch will be within the UC3M Signal Theory and Communications Department, under the name LOLITA (Information...
DFG congratulates Manfred Curbach on winning the Deutscher Zukunftspreis
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) congratulates Dresden-based construction engineer Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred Curbach on winning the 2016 Deutscher Zukunftspreis. ..
Articles published in journals on ARPHA indexed by ReadCube for easier discoverability
Credit: ReadCube and ZooKeys While research outputs are being published at a rate greater than ever, it is becoming more and more likely to simply...