A majority of Americans visited doctors in the past year who had been paid or…
Month: March 2017
Virtual reality training for ‘safety-critical’ jobs
New virtual reality training could help prevent accidents in ‘safety-critical’ industries like the NHS, aviation,…
Breakthrough in live coral imaging
Interdisciplinarity scientists have used a well-known biomedical imaging technique called optical coherence tomography (OCT) to…
Shadow-loving insect named after Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish
Tuomas Holopainen of the band Nightwish is a full-blooded nature person. This gave a conservation…
Disruptive children do not inspire similar behavior in their siblings
A new study finds that the disruptive behavior of individual children does not encourage similar…
Study identifies 90 genes in fat that may contribute to dangerous diseases
A sweeping international effort is connecting the dots between genes in our fat cells and…
Statistics method shows networks differ in epileptic brains
A novel statistical approach to analyzing data from patients with epilepsy reveals details about their…
Space energy technology restored to make power stations more efficient
Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented to potentially work with traditional…
Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Scientists discover that the iron sulfide battery material undergoes significant changes in its microstructure and…
Low-cost monitoring device uses light to quickly detect oil spills
Researchers have developed a simple device that can detect an oil spill in water and…