Research on alcohol-use disorders consistently shows problem drinking decreases as we age. Now, researchers have…
Month: August 2015
Our elegant brain: Motor learning in the fast lane
To learn new motor skills, neurons within the cerebellum engage in elegant, virtually mathematical, computations…
Lab experiment mimics early-stage planetary formation process
Physicists have directly observed, for the first time, how highly charged dust-sized particles attract and…
Body size increase did not play a role in the origins of homo genus, new analysis suggests
A new analysis of early hominin body size evolution suggests that the earliest members of…
What would the world look like to someone with a bionic eye?
While major advancements have been made in vision recovery technologies, the vision provided by those…
Quantum states in a nano-object manipulated using a mechanical system
Scientists have used resonators made from single-crystalline diamonds to develop a novel device in which…
The uneasy, unbreakable link of money and medicine
After centuries of concerns about the potentially compromising role of money in medicine, the debate…
Shifting winds, ocean currents doubled endangered Galápagos penguin population
Shifting winds, ocean currents doubled endangered Galápagos penguin population, new research shows. The Galápagos Islands,…
Cassiopeia’s hidden gem: The closest rocky, transiting planet
A star in the constellation Cassiopeia has a planet in a three-day orbit that transits,…
Are animal models still essential to biological research?
A new article covers the use of animal models in scientific research. The use of…