People need to find ways to reduce chronic stress and anxiety in their lives or…
Month: January 2016
Climate change impacts on Buzzards Bay
An analysis of long-term, water quality monitoring data reveals that climate change is already having…
Many clean-tech subsidies should be greater
Governments often offer subsidies to consumers for clean-technology products, from home solar panels to electric…
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Solving a longstanding mystery, experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. A long-standing discrepancy between…
Immune system maintains a memory of past infections by priming genes for future encounters
Our ability to fight off recurrent infections, such as colds or flu, may lie in…
Diagnosing depression before it starts
Brain scans may identify children who are vulnerable to depression, before symptoms appear, new research…
Why some cuckoos have blue eggs
Cuckoos are nest parasites, meaning they lay their eggs in other birds’ nests. The female…
New insights into the supercritical state of water
Using molecular dynamics simulations, researchers have analyzed the properties of supercritical water. The researchers showed…
Controlling parents create mean college kids
College students whose parents lay on the guilt or try to manipulate them may translate…
Sensory function: Thalamus enhances, stores sensory information
Every day, we constantly absorb information through our sensory organs, which the brain then needs…