Exposure to a widely used pesticide causes worker bumblebees to grow less and then hatch…
Month: January 2014
Keeping whales safe in sound
Global efforts are intensifying to safeguard whales and other marine species from the harms of…
NHL teams pay more than $650 million to injured players over 3 years
Most successful businesses would not accept spending $218 million on lost time, but that’s the…
Secondhand smoke exposure increases odds of hospital asthma readmission for children
A new study shows that exposure to secondhand smoke at home or in the car…
Frog fathers don’t mind dropping off their tadpoles in cannibal-infested pools
Given a choice, male dyeing poison frogs snub empty pools in favor of ones in…
Ultra-thin tool heating for injection molding
In future, thin-film heating will allow plastic parts to be produced with greatly improved surface…
Hydrocephalus: sensors monitor cerebral pressure
If the pressure in a patient’s brain is too high, physicians implant a system in…
Modified proteins as vaccines against peach allergy
Research has been conducted on the peach allergy, the most common food allergy, and the…
Childhood obesity can only be tackled with broad public health interventions
Public health researchers have found single dietary interventions are not effective at increasing fruit and…
New study raises hope to successfully fight chytrid amphibian pathogen
An international team of researchers has made important progress in understanding the distribution of the…