Those with borderline personality disorder, or BPD, a mental illness marked by unstable moods, often…
Month: August 2015
Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world’s temperate forests
Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and…
Can you avoid hangovers after heavy drinking?
Are some people immune to hangovers, and can eating or drinking water after heavy drinking…
Seeing quantum motion; even one day ripples in the fabric of space-time?
Even large objects obey quantum physics, meaning they are never quite at rest. Researchers have…
Artificial leaf harnesses sunlight for efficient fuel production
A new solar fuel generation system, or artificial leaf, safely creates fuel from sunlight and…
CPR: It’s not always a lifesaver, but it plays one on TV
If you think that performing CPR on a person whose heart has stopped is a…
New synthetic tumor environments make cancer research more realistic
Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — body tissues — but…
Oysters harbor, transmit human norovirus: Avoid raw ones
Oysters not only transmit human norovirus; they also serve as a major reservoir for these…
Fungi tweaked to boost industrial enzymes
Mutants of a common fungus produce endoxylanase enzymes twice as potent as the original strain.
Graphics processors accelerate pattern discovery
Using normal graphics processors, a new program for identifying repeated patterns in complex networks significantly…