Married couples in low- and middle-income countries around the world that use contraception are having…
Month: January 2016
Community-level violence linked to teens’ risky sexual behavior
Teens’ experiences with violence — either through fear of violence, observing violent events, or being…
Physician assistant home visits significantly reduce hospital readmissions after heart surgery
Two home visits by a physician’s assistant (PA) during the week after hospital discharge significantly…
One trillion kilometers apart: A lonely planet and its distant star
Astronomers have found a planet, until now thought to be a free floating or lonely…
A look into the evolution of the eye
Scientists have succeeded in reconstructing a 160 million year old compound eye of a fossil…
Virologists investigating novel applications for viruses
Viruses can be classified in a completely new way based on viral structures, new research…
New fluorescent nanomaterials whose inspiration was taken from plant antenna systems
One of the biggest temptations facing a scientist is to try and reproduce natural phenomena…
3D images reveal the body’s guardian against urinary infection
Researchers have obtained the first 3D structure of uromodulin, the building block of the unique…
Don’t blame grey squirrels: Their British Invasion had much more to do with us
DNA profiling reveals grey squirrels are not as good invaders as we think, and that…
Milestone for Parkinson’s research: The amyloid protein ?-synuclein has been visualised in the cell for the first time
The protein ?-synuclein plays an important role in Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. Although a…