Mobile phone data can provide rapid insight into employment levels, precisely because people’s communications patterns…
Month: June 2015
Leaving on a biofueled jet plane
Researchers have developed a catalytic process for converting sugarcane biomass into a new class of…
Why is scratching an itch so rewarding?
Researchers may be closer to understanding why scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in…
Scientists find genetic variants key to understanding origins of ovarian cancer
New research is bringing the origins of ovarian cancer into sharper focus.The study highlights the…
Active clinician support, assistance are critical to successfully quitting smoking
While primary care providers’ simply asking patients with high-risk smoking histories about their smoking status…
Genetic switch lets marine diatoms do less work at higher carbon dioxide
Rising carbon dioxide lets diatoms return to their evolutionary roots, by skipping steps that concentrate…
World’s thinnest lightbulb: Graphene gets bright
Scientists have demonstrated — for the first time — an on-chip visible light source using…
Deaths attributable to cigarettes for 12 smoking-related cancers
Researchers estimate that 48.5 percent of the nearly 346,000 deaths from 12 cancers among adults…
Newfound groups of bacteria are mixing up the tree of life
Bacteria, one of the three major branches of the tree of life, are a fuzzy…
Body’s response to injury, inflammation may hinder wound healing in diabetes
Scientists have found that they could speed up wound healing in diabetic mice by keeping…