The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the Maestro Rechargeable System for certain obese…
Month: January 2015
Is this the year you join the top one percent? Affluence more fluid than once thought
Here’s some good news for the New Year: According to new research, there’s a 1…
Complex environments push ‘brain’ evolution
Little animations trying to master a computer game are teaching neuroscience researchers how the brain…
Privacy challenges: Just four vague pieces of info can identify you, and your credit card
Just four fairly vague pieces of information — the dates and locations of four purchases…
Scientists investigate link between skyrocketing sea slug populations, warming seas
A team of California scientists believes a far-flung Okenia rosacea bloom — along with a…
Structure of world’s largest single cell is reflected at the molecular level
Biologists used the world’s largest single-celled organism, an aquatic alga called Caulerpa taxifolia, to study…
Generating Mobius strips of light
Physicists have experimentally produced Möbius strips from the polarization of light, confirming a theoretical prediction…
New technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Researchers have revealed a new solution-based hot-casting technique that allows growth of highly efficient and…
Powerful tool promises to change the way scientists view proteins
Life scientists now have access to a publicly available web resource that streamlines and simplifies…
Erectile dysfunction drugs could protect liver from sepsis-induced damage
Drugs that are on the market to treat erectile dysfunction could have another use: they…