An annual survey shows the abundance of underwater grasses in Chesapeake Bay increased 8 percent…
Month: April 2017
A turbo engine for tracing neurons
Putting a turbo engine into an old car gives it an entirely new life —…
A quarter of nursing home residents are colonized with drug-resistant bacteria
The significant presence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB), such as E. coli, among nursing home…
Wireless power can drive tiny electronic devices in the GI tract
An ingestible electronic capsule, complete with a capsule-sized antenna capable of receiving a radio signal…
Chemoresistance in breast cancer is related to varying tumor cell populations
Scientists have recreated and characterized the process of acquisition of resistance to chemotherapy in orthotopic…
When students pay attention in class, their brains are in sync
When people in a group are engaged with each other and with the world around…
The upside of worrying
Worry — it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A new paper…
Mushrooms get defensive
Some mushrooms produce long-chain unsaturated carboxylic acids as their chemical defense against insect larvae. The…
Winemakers lose billions of dollars every year due to natural disasters
Every year, worldwide wine industry suffers losses of more than ten billion US dollars from…
National mental-health survey finds widespread ignorance, stigma
Less than half of Americans can recognize anxiety. Most people don’t know what to do…