Drawing inspiration from an insect’s multi-faceted eye, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have created miniature lenses…
Month: November 2015
Country-to-country aid for health varies dramatically
An analysis of country-to-country aid for health over a 20-year period suggests wide variations among…
Health campaigns that tap teen culture curtail risky adolescent behavior
Health campaigns that target teens based their social groups and subcultures, such as hip hop,…
Nearly one in five oral penicillin doses given to children in NHS hospitals may be too high or too low
Many children may be getting an inappropriate dose of antibiotics as doctors use guidelines that…
New computational approach to predicting adverse drug reactions with higher confidence
A new integrated computational method helps predicting adverse drug reaction — which are often lethal…
Depression, weight gain in pregnancy linked to sitting down
A link between depression in pregnancy and long periods of sitting down has been identified…
3-D printed ‘building blocks’ of life
Scientists have developed a 3-D printing method capable of producing highly uniform ‘blocks’ of embryonic…
The better to eat you with? How dinosaurs’ jaws influenced diet
Just how bad was T. rex’s bite? New research has found that the feeding style…
Guidelines first to focus on children with pulmonary hypertension
The first guidelines developed for children with pulmonary hypertension are the result of a collaboration…
Radar images provide details on Halloween asteroid
The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145’s safe flyby of Earth have been processed…