Month: August 2019

A strong knock to the head can knock out your sense of smell temporarily. Read…

Expectant parents’ emotional struggles predict emotional and behavioral problems in 2-year-olds, new research shows. The…

Urban sprawl has led to the creation of food deserts in metropolitan areas across the…

High-throughput sequencing is revolutionizing research in plant evolutionary biology. Using third-generation sequencing technologies, researchers are…

The exhaustive detection method that discovered the error field in the initial run of the…

The safety and effectiveness of electric fans in heatwaves depend on the climate and basing…

Scientists have discovered previously undetected observational evidence of frequent energetic wave pulses the size of…

Researchers have opened up a possible avenue for new cancer therapies that don’t have the…

Blocking the ability of the bacterial pathogen that causes gonorrhea to uptake the mineral zinc…

Research has identifies five strategies to tackle the two-sided challenge of a lack of fertilizer…

Successful recovery from opioid use disorder appears to be even more challenging than recovery from…

Good morning. Elizabeth Cooney here, filling in for Ed Silverman this week as he makes…

SAN FRANCISCO — Alzheimer’s patients who received an experimental protein cocktail derived from young blood…

A Colombian regulatory agency fined Pfizer (PFE) nearly $25,000 for breaching the maximum prices for…

During my training to become a primary care physician, the importance of preventive cancer screening…

George Church, the prominent Harvard University biologist, offered a full-throated apology for having meetings and…

SHERBROOKE, Québec — As a mother, Marie-Hélène Étienne-Rousseau wasn’t dead-set against vaccination, in a mind’s-made-up,…

Two years ago, the Food and Drug Administration marked a big step forward in the…

What was the role of warfare in Mayan civilization? New evidence from lake sediments around…

A new study found that Weyl semimetals, a class of quantum materials, have bulk quantum…

With a tongue up to 7 cm long, the long-tongue fly Moegistorhynchus longirostris often battle…

SUTD researchers study the pivotal role that Parrondo’s paradox plays in the shaping of living…

One of the most exciting discoveries in genome research was that the last common ancestor…

A new article reveals that adjuvants, chemicals commonly added to pesticides, amplify toxicity affecting mortality…

Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in…

Bioengineers are studying heart disease with paper-based structures that mimic the layered nature of aortic…

When caregivers used ultrasound to guide placement of intravenous lines in children with presumed difficult…

Researchers have developed a novel nano-vaccine for melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer….

The latest iteration of an eye-on-a-chip has a mechanical eyelid to simulate blinking and was…

Grasshoppers and crickets could provide a growing world population with a substantial portion of the…

Tomato yellow leaf curl disease (TYLCD) is the most destructive disease of tomato, causing severe…

Charcoal produced by wildfires could trap carbon for hundreds of years and help mitigate climate…

Major volcanic eruptions spew ash particles into the atmosphere, which reflect some of the Sun’s…

Chemists have produced an array of fluorescent surfactants for imaging, biomedical and manufacturing applications. Read…

Researchers have demonstrated that an optical technique known as Raman spectroscopy can be used to…

A new drug, known as IP1867B, could be used for future treatments of brain tumors….

Money earned by the Myanmar military from international and domestic business deals, “substantially enhances its…

A combination of off-the-shelf quantum dot nanotechnology and a smartphone camera soon could allow doctors…

A new analysis of data on more than 900 Baltimore adults has linked stressful life…

For decades, immunologists have been trying to train the transplant recipient’s immune system to accept…

Researchers have found a total of 141 regions (genes) in our genetic material that largely…

Heart disease and stroke mortality rates have almost stopped declining in many high-income countries, and…

Using genetic tools in mice, researchers say they have identified a pair of proteins that…

Adults are really good at paying attention only to what you tell them to —…

Researchers have developed a way to use immunotherapy drugs against treatment-resistant non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas for the…

An interdisciplinary team has successfully reverse engineered the components and sequence of events that lead…

Is this about fake news?Kind of. It is a truth universally acknowledged that you shouldn’t…

We agree with Astrup and colleagues that the World Health Organization should reconsider its dietary…