Neurons specialized for processing faces in the human brain are controlled by attention, according to…
Month: January 2017
New study highlights need to increase female peer reviewers
Publishers of scholarly journals should take additional steps to get more women to serve as…
Triggering the brain’s auto-focus
Environmental cues don’t just trigger actions, like reaching for our phones when they buzz; they…
A crab’s eye view of rising tides in a changing world
Coastal ecosystems and aquifers will be greatly affected by climate change, not only from rising…
Ancient, scary and alien-looking specimen forms a rarity in the insect world — a new order
Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old insect preserved in amber with a triangular head, almost-alien and…
Antarctic bottom waters freshening at unexpected rate
In the cold depths along the sea floor, Antarctic Bottom Waters are part of a…
Scientists identify bone degradation process within metastatic breast cancer
Once breast cancer spreads through the body, it can degrade a patient’s healthy bones, causing…
New class of materials could revolutionize biomedical, alternative energy industries
Polyhedral boranes, or clusters of boron atoms bound to hydrogen atoms, are transforming the biomedical…
Microsoft is making it easier for the Thai government to break web encryption
The Thai government is looking to take greater control over its citizens' web encryption, according…
AT&T will continue ‘going hard’ on streaming perks that may violate net neutrality
AT&T’s plan to start showering customers with poentially net neutrality-violating perks is just getting started….