By solving a six-dimensional equation that had previously stymied researchers, physicists have pinpointed the characteristics…
Month: November 2014
Copper on the brain at rest
Proper copper levels are essential to the health of the brain at rest, new research…
Engineers make sound loud enough to bend light on a computer chip: Device could improve wireless communications systems
Engineering researchers have developed a chip on which both sound wave and light wave are…
Saving ovaries does not help prevent prolapse for women after menopause
Removing ovaries at hysterectomy does not increase a woman’s risk of pelvic organ prolapse after…
More public health interventions required to tackle grim reaper of ‘lifestyle’ diseases
More public health interventions, along the lines of the smoking ban, are needed to tackle…
An enzyme that fixes broken DNA sometimes destroys it instead, researchers find
Enzymes inside cells that normally repair damaged DNA sometimes wreck it instead, researchers have found….
Dogs hear our words and how we say them
When people hear another person talking to them, they respond not only to what is…
Elderly brains learn, but maybe too much
Learning requires both mental flexibility, or ‘plasticity,’ and stability. A new study finds that in…
Cognitive test battery developed to assess impact of long duration spaceflights on astronauts’ brain function
A cognitive test battery, known as Cognition, has been developed for the National Space Biomedical…
Enzyme may be key to cancer progression in many tumors
A deeper understanding of how KRAS turns off tumor suppressor genes and identifies a key…