Two snow leopards were captured, fitted with satellite collars, and released for the first time…
Month: July 2012
Musical glove improves sensation, mobility for people with spinal cord injury
Researchers have created a wireless, musical glove that may improve sensation and motor skills for…
Constructing next-generation space habitat demonstrators
Developing a Deep Space Habitat will allow a crew to live and work safely in…
NASA’s Landsat Data Continuity Mission becomes an observatory
Engineers at Orbital Sciences Corporation, Gilbert, Ariz., have installed the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) instrument…
In search of the key word: Bursts of certain words within a text are what make them keywords
Human beings have the ability to convert complex phenomena into a one-dimensional sequence of letters…
How exercise improves heart function in diabetics
A detailed study of heart muscle function in mice has uncovered evidence to explain why…
Researchers turn skin cells into brain cells, a promising path to better Parkinson’s treatment
Using adult stem cells, researchers say they have generated the type of human neuron specifically…
Online self-diagnosis: Am I having a heart attack or is it just the hiccups?
Consumers who self-diagnose are more likely to believe they have a serious illness because they…
In visual searches, computer is no match for the human brain
You’re headed out the door and you realize you don’t have your car keys. After…
New way to induce programmed cell death, or apoptosis
Researchers have developed a technique to cause apoptosis — programmed cell death. In two proteins…