Black and white Americans cope with pain differently. A new review and analysis of 19…
Month: February 2016
Low-carbon policies could prevent up to 175,000 US deaths by 2030
Reducing US emissions to the levels needed to avoid a 2-degree C warming could prevent…
Meningitis A nearly eliminated in Africa through vaccination, reaching over 235 million people
Global vaccine experts and officials from all 26 African ‘meningitis belt’ countries have convened in…
Seeing cancer in 3-D
Cancer cells don’t live on glass slides, yet the vast majority of images related to…
Little diet pain, big health gain
Those who struggle with obesity, take heart. Losing as little as 5 percent of your…
Extinct glyptodonts really were gigantic armadillos, ancient DNA shows
Extinct glyptodonts really were gigantic armadillos, according to researchers who have reconstructed the family tree…
Soap bubbles’ secrets go pop
Some phenomena that appear to be well understood are much more mysterious than it seems….
Method to safely share password data
An unfortunate reality for cybersecurity researchers is that real-world data for their research too often…
High death rates from unnatural causes for male lions in Cecil the Lion’s park
When Cecil the Lion was killed last year by a trophy hunter in Zimbabwe, it…
Worm study may resolve discrepancies in research on aging
Researchers may have discovered what’s responsible for discrepant findings between dozens of fundamental studies of…