Among older adults with subthreshold depression (insufficient levels of depressive symptoms to meet diagnostic criteria),…
Month: February 2017
Prides, protection and parks: Africa’s protected areas can support four times as many lions
Africa’s protected parks and reserves are capable of supporting three to four times as many…
Radiocarbon dating and DNA show ancient Puebloan leadership in the maternal line
Discovering who was a leader, or even if leaders existed, from the ruins of archaeological…
Prostate cancer cells grow with malfunction of cholesterol control in cells
Advanced prostate cancer and high blood cholesterol have long been known to be connected, but…
Prediction: More gas-giants will be found orbiting Sun-like stars
New planetary formation models indicate that there may be an undiscovered population of gas giant…
Science vs. the sea lamprey
A promising — and natural — solution to curb destructive the sea lamprey population has…
Microbe, virus co-evolution: Model of CRISPR, phage co-evolution explains confusing experimental results
A new study suggests that researchers planning to use the CRISPR genome-editing system to produce…
Colorado River flows will keep shrinking as climate warms
Warming in the 21st century reduced Colorado River flows by at least 0.5 million acre-feet,…
Osteopathic technique helps locate ectopic pregnancies when imaging fails
The location of an ectopic pregnancy can be determined quickly and easily with a simple,…
Engineers overcome a hurdle in growing a revolutionary optical metamaterial
Engineers have now produced an elusive diamond crystal structure that could revolutionize photonics. This has…