Customers who adopted mobile technology for their grocery shopping shopped more often and placed larger…
Month: May 2015
‘Tangles’ trigger early-stage Alzheimer’s abnormalities in neocortical networks
A ground-breaking study has now, for the first time, characterized early-stage changes that occur inside…
Scientists look through the mirror to reveal secrets of a new drug
Research results can help develop anti-inflammatory drugs, scientists say. Results from recent study revealed a…
‘Microcombing’ creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films
Researchers have developed an inexpensive technique called ‘microcombing’ to align carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can…
What happens when populations hit the borders of expansion?
Scientists are researching how population size and genetic drift affect the limits to a species’…
Slowdown after Ice Age sounds a warning for Great Barrier Reef’s future
Environmental factors similar to those affecting the present day Great Barrier Reef have been linked…
Accelerated brain aging in type 1 diabetes related to cognitive complications
The brains of people with type 1 diabetes show signs of accelerated aging that correlate…
The dark side of cannabis: Panic attacks, nausea
Although the use of cannabis as a medical drug is currently booming, we should not…
‘Silver bullet’ kills phytophthora, a fungus that affects more than 400 plants and trees
Silver nanoparticles produced with an extract of wormwood can stop several strains of the fungus…
Breast cancer vaccines may work better with silicon microparticles
The effectiveness of cancer vaccines could be dramatically boosted by first loading the cancer antigens…