Secondhand exposure to cannabis smoke under ‘extreme conditions,’ such as an unventilated room or enclosed…
Month: May 2015
Learning entrepreneurship: Starting a business is a matter of adequate training
The capacity to think and act in entrepreneurial terms is present in many people —…
Physicists observe attosecond real-time restructuring of electron cloud in molecule
The recombination of electron shells in molecules, taking just a few dozen attoseconds (a billionth…
Spores for thought: Study provides new insights into Clostridium spores
Researchers have established how clostridia bacteria emerge from spores. This could help them understand how…
Measures of students’ ‘non-cognitive’ skills for teacher evaluation, school accountability, or student diagnosis
Policymakers and practitioners have grown increasingly interested in measures of personal qualities other than cognitive…
Androgen deprivation therapy may lead to cognitive impairment in prostate cancer patients
Cognitive impairment can occur in cancer patients who are treated with a variety of therapies,…
Fracking may affect air quality, human health
People living or working near active natural gas wells may be exposed to certain pollutants…
Drug perks up old muscles and aging brains
We age, in part, because the adult stem cells in our tissues are surrounded by…
U.S. beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15
Beekeepers across the United States lost more than 40 percent of their honey bee colonies…
What’s the forecast? Cutting off the supply of psychoactive substances
The use of novel psychoactive substances — synthetic compounds with stimulant or hallucinogenic effects —…