Scientists have solved the structure of a bifunctional peptide bound to a neuroreceptor that offers…
Month: February 2015
Recovering attention after a stroke: Brain’s right hemisphere may be more valuable
The right hemisphere may assist a damaged left hemisphere recover visual attention after a stroke,…
Learning from extinction: New insights on controlling cancer
A researcher brings a paleontological view of species extinction to bear on the challenges involved…
Urbanization may affect the initiation of thunderstorms
A study that assessed the impact of urban land use on the initiation of thunderstorms…
New insights into origins of the world’s languages
Linguists have long agreed that languages from English to Greek to Hindi, known as ‘Indo-European…
Neanderthal groups based part of their lifestyle on sexual division of labor
Neanderthals divided some of their tasks according to their sex. A new study analyzed 99…
Dark matter guides growth of supermassive black holes
Every massive galaxy has a black hole at its center, and the heftier the galaxy,…
Mutant bacteria that keep on growing
The typical Escherichia coli, the laboratory rat of microbiology, is a tiny 1-2 thousandths of…
Brace yourself: Study finds people can use different strategies to prepare for stress
People are not consistent in how they prepare mentally to deal with arguments and other…
3-D engineered bone marrow makes functioning platelets
An international research team has reported development of the first three-dimensional tissue system that reproduces…