UTSA professor receives grant for therapeutic underwater virtual reality game
Credit: John Quarles/UTSA John Quarles, an associate professor of computer science at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), has received a $240,000 grant...
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Sometimes just watching hurts — and the signs of pain are seen in the brain
Credit: Jaakko Hotta/Aalto University Some people claim to experience pain just watching something painful to happen. This is true especially of people suffering from complex...
Harvest of nuisance black bears in New Jersey reducing human-bear conflicts
Credit: New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife LOGAN, UTAH, USA - Is there room for black bears in human-dominated New Jersey? According to Utah...
Mystery of ultra-diffuse faint galaxies solved
Credit: (Credit: NIHAO collaboration (PI A.V. Macciò, NYUAD) Over the last year, researchers have observed some very faint, diffuse galaxies. The galaxies are as faint...
Each animal species hosts a unique microbial community and benefits from it
Credit: Bordenstein Laboratory, Vanderbilt University Each animal species hosts its own, unique community of microbes that can significantly improve its health and fitness. That is...
New guidelines aim to improve understanding of scientific data
Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) have produced new guidelines aimed at improving the communication and understanding of scientific data - using knowledge of...
Novel silicon etching technique crafts 3-D gradient refractive index micro-optics
Credit: University of Illinois A multi-institutional research collaboration has created a novel approach for fabricating three-dimensional micro-optics through the shape-defined formation of porous ..
Stanford researchers develop new compound to reduce tumor growth
A baseball glove is typically made from leather. If a new design made gloves more attractive to baseballs -- catching them at higher rates than...
Nocturnal & GW awarded $2.27m grant for preclinical development of cardiac imaging system
DURHAM, N.C. (Nov. 28, 2016) -- Nocturnal Product Development, LLC, received a prestigious Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer Program award from the National Institutes...
UTSW researchers’ international study zeros in on gene that limits desire to drink alcohol
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS, Nov. 28, 2016 - In the largest study of its kind, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and colleagues in Europe identified...
Taking a closer look at online social networking and depression
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--While frequency and duration of online social networking may have a negative effect...
With climate change, not all wildlife population shifts are predictable
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Wildlife ecologists who study the effects of climate change assume, with support from several studies, that warming temperatures caused...
Does hormonal contraception alleviate premenstrual symptoms?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2016 New Rochelle, NY, November 28, 2016--The results of a new study designed to compare the severity and timing...
VirusDetect, a new bioinformatics pipeline for virus identification released
ITHACA, NY-- Researchers studying the viruses that affect agricultural production or human health now have a new tool for investigating where viruses have spread, on...
UMD researchers crack the code of a deadly virus
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) is an unforgiving killer of horses, donkeys and zebras, resulting in mortality as high as 80 percent of infected animals....