Compared to older people, younger adults experience greater antioxidant benefits from one exercise session, new…
Month: June 2016
You could be paying more for less effective medicine
A new study suggests that weak drug regulation and misleading marketing can lead doctors to…
Rainfall following drought linked to historic nitrate levels in Midwest streams in 2013
Drought periods followed by rainfall caused nitrate levels to increase to the highest ever measured…
Flipped classrooms turning STEM education upside down
Given the difficult-to-digest subject matter in many STEM classrooms, educators have customarily relied on traditional…
Laboratory breakthrough may lead to improved x-ray spectrometers
Researchers have developed a new design for X-ray spectrometers that eschews a commonly utilized component…
How honeybees do without males
An isolated population of honeybees, the Cape bees, living in South Africa has evolved a…
Autism with intellectual disability linked to mother’s immune dysfunction during pregnancy
Pregnant women with higher levels of inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, proteins that control communication between…
Antipsychotic meds for foster care, other poor children: Still quality challenges
Significant quality challenges persist in antipsychotic medication use for children in foster care and other…
Predicting advanced prostate cancer outcomes with NaF-PET/CT
A recent pilot study found that sodium fluoride (Na-F-18) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (NaF-PET/CT) accurately…
New molecular toolkit for the de-novo design of bioactive agents
Scientists take a new approach to the production of bioactive natural substances: Using synthetic biotechnology…