A single blood test could reveal whether an otherwise healthy person is unusually likely to…
Month: October 2015
Could a drug engineered from bananas fight many deadly viruses? New results show promise
A banana a day may not keep the doctor away, but a substance originally found…
Some antibiotics work by stressing bacteria out (metabolically)
Learning how antibiotics actually work can help scientists and doctors use them more wisely —…
Study finds migration strategy predicts stopover ecology in shorebirds
Migration strategies reflect a complex interplay between time and condition, say researchers — key metrics…
Alzheimer’s disease: Plaques impair memory formation during sleep
Alzheimer’s patients frequently suffer from sleep disorders, mostly even before they become forgetful. Furthermore, it…
Plastic litter taints the sea surface, even in the Arctic
For the first time, researchers show that marine litter can even be found at the…
How a flying bat sees space
By training bats to fly around obstacles in a room, and sit patiently on a…
For young patients with spina bifida, smartphone app improves self-management
A system incorporating a smartphone app may help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida…
Virtual K-pop dance teacher developed to make dance learning easier
A virtual dance teacher has been developed that can make learning famous K-Pop dances easier…
Hubble spies Big Bang frontiers
Observations have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest…