Many animals are able to discriminate between related and unrelated individuals but how they do…
Month: June 2013
Glove shows its true colors: Identifies poisons on contact
Security takes top priority in laboratories and in production. In the future, employees exposed to…
Better screens made of organic light diodes: OLED brings out the shine
Screens made of organic light diodes promise unfathomable possibilities. Yet high production costs often prevent…
Re-analysis of diabetes drug finds no higher heart attack risk
A re-analysis of the data from a pivotal study of rosiglitazone found no increased risk…
Scientists confirm theory regarding the origins of the sucking disc of remora fish
Remora fish, with a sucking disc on their heads, have been the stuff of legend….
Normal molecular pathway affected in poor-prognosis childhood leukemia identified
Through genetic engineering of laboratory models, researchers have uncovered a vulnerability in the way cancer…
Math technique de-clutters cancer-cell data, revealing tumor evolution, treatment leads
Scientists have developed a mathematical method of simplifying and interpreting genome data bearing evidence of…
How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect
A new study used naturalistic video data for the first time to compare gestures in…
Rapid change in China brings significant improvements in health
In China between 1990 and 2010, communicable disease and child mortality decreased while life expectancy…
Diminished balance found in those with poor vision
Researchers have found that visually impaired individuals and those with uncorrected refractive error — those…