Month: May 2013

Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock – a 24-hour cycle of growth followed…

Little is known about the effect of physical education on child weight, but a new…

Nearly 20 percent of kidneys that are recovered from deceased donors in the U.S. are…

Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed…

A new study suggests less sleep per night is associated with a significant increase in…

Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly…

Woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River. This…

New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’…

Researchers have pinpointed a catalytic trigger for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease — when the…

A cocktail of non-pathogenic bacteria naturally occurring in the digestive tract of healthy humans can…