Having overweight parents significantly increases your risk of obesity, but the inheritance of specific mutations…
Month: January 2016
Fleeting fruit in a tropical forest
To find energy-rich food, like tropical ripe fruit, is a challenge for chimpanzees, say scientists….
How bats recognize their own ‘bat signals’
The mechanism that allows individual bats to avoid noise overlap by increasing the volume, duration…
Satellites show Florida beaches becoming darker, and that’s good for sea turtles
Satellite data on artificial nighttime light in Florida from 1992-2012 was compared to robust data…
The brain communicates on several channels
The human brain uses several frequency bands for the flow of information between lower and…
Enormous blades could lead to more offshore energy in US
A new design for gigantic blades longer than two football fields could help bring offshore…
Identifying another piece in the Parkinson’s disease pathology puzzle
An international consortium identifies and validates cellular role of priority Parkinson’s disease drug target, LRRK2…
Marijuana survey finds medical users more likely to consume edibles and vaporize
A new study provides some of the first evidence about patterns of marijuana use in…
New way to identify brain tumor aggressiveness
A comprehensive analysis of the molecular characteristics of gliomas — the most common malignant brain…
Want to learn a new skill? Faster? Change up your practice sessions
When practicing and learning a new skill, making slight changes during repeat practice sessions may…