While the risk of suicide by offenders in prison has been identified as a priority…
Month: August 2015
Common medications could delay brain injury recovery
Drugs used to treat common complaints could delay the recovery of brain injury patients according…
Universal iodine supplementation during pregnancy could offer huge cost savings
Giving all pregnant women iodine supplements, even in mildly iodine deficient countries like the UK,…
Analysis of men’s and women’s tennis performance finds differences from match format
Quantitative analysis of the performance of men and women professional tennis players over the past…
Linking survey and administrative data better gauges impact of federal anitpovery efforts
Linking survey data with administrative records will enable the federal government to better gauge the…
Statistical technique helps cancer researchers understand tumor makeup, personalize care
A new statistical method for analyzing next-generation sequencing data helps researchers study the genome of…
Why use a 2-D cursor in a 3-D world? Computer cursors are going 3-D
Researchers have developed techniques that enable computer cursors to interact in 3-D in single or…
Can music help people with epilepsy?
The brains of people with epilepsy appear to react to music differently from the brains…
How 16th Century observations paved the way for Darwin’s landmark study
Documents dating back to the 16th Century provide a unique insight into one of Darwin’s…
NASA simulation indicates ancient flood volcanoes could have altered climate
Flood-basalt eruptions were enormous but not as explosive as eruptions like Pinatubo, which in 1991…