People who smoke high-potency cannabis end up getting higher doses of the active ingredient, new…
Month: March 2014
Researchers take on fighting disastrous consequences of extreme changes in climate before they occur
How can communities dodge future disasters from Mother Nature before she has dealt the blow?…
Stretchable antenna for wearable health monitoring
Engineering researchers have developed a new, stretchable antenna that can be incorporated into wearable technologies,…
Simple changes to homework improved student learning
A new educational study offers evidence that simple and inexpensive changes to existing courses can…
The frozen truth about glaciers, climate change and our future
Researchers use years of Tibet and Himalayas analysis to better predict glacial response to global…
Sepsis study comparing three treatment methods shows same survival rate
A five-year, randomized clinical trial at 31 academic hospitals showed that survival of patients with…
When parents need care: Division of labor among siblings
Siblings are not equally involved in caregiving when their aging parents start needing care. In…
Only one fifth of people with hearing problems wear a hearing aid
A new study has looked at the habits of 160,000 people in the UK aged…
Antimony nanocrystals for batteries
Researchers have succeeded for the first time to produce uniform antimony nanocrystals. Tested as components…
Astronomers complete cosmic dust census
Astronomers have completed a benchmark study of more than 300 galaxies, producing the largest census…