Smoking high potency ‘skunk-like’ cannabis can damage a crucial part of the brain responsible for…
Month: November 2015
Personally tailored diabetes care reduces mortality in women, but not men, study suggests
A follow-up study to assess the effects of personally tailored diabetes care in general practice…
Extreme heatwaves may hit Europe in the short term
Regional climate projections for the two coming decades (2021-2040) suggest enhanced probability of heatwaves anywhere…
Instrument to measure brand embarrassment developed by economists
Whether people wear T-shirts with a big logo of a brand depends on a person’s…
New, presumably tick-borne bacterium discovered in an Austrian fox
Ticks can transmit various diseases to people and animals. Some well-known diseases spread by ticks…
Even the elderly can recover from a severe traumatic brain injury
Even patients over the age of 75 may recover from severe traumatic brain injury, suggests…
Rapid plankton growth in ocean seen as sign of carbon dioxide loading
A microscopic marine alga is thriving in the North Atlantic to an extent that defies…
Scientists get first glimpse of black hole eating star, ejecting high-speed flare
An international team of astrophysicists has for the first time witnessed a star being swallowed…
Surprise: One organism responsible for nitrification instead of two
It could never be found until recently, in a fish tank a few floors below…
Functional human liver cells grown in the lab
A new technique for growing human hepatocytes in the laboratory has now been described by…