Pre-school age children who are exposed to child-targeted fast-food advertising on television are considerably more…
Month: April 2017
Why animals have evolved to favor one side of the brain
Most left-handers can rattle off a list of their eminent comrades-in-arms: Oprah Winfrey, Albert Einstein,…
Graphene ‘copy machine’ may produce cheap semiconductor wafers
A new technique may vastly reduce the overall cost of wafer technology and enable devices…
Protein in human umbilical cord blood rejuvenates old mice’s impaired learning, memory
Human umbilical cord blood can rejuvenate learning and memory in older mice, according to a…
Brain sets a unique learning rate for everything we do, by self-adjusting to the environment
Each time we get feedback, the brain is hard at work updating its knowledge and…
Water is streaming across Antarctica
In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over…
Adherence to high-intensity statin drops-off for many following heart attack
A substantial proportion of patients prescribed high-intensity statins following hospitalization for a heart attack did…
Study examines emergency department visits for patients injured by law enforcement in the US
From 2006 to 2012, there were approximately 51,000 emergency department visits per year for patients…
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
An exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth may be the new…
Action required: Invasive fungus is killing European salamanders
A new fungal disease brought in from Asia is threatening European salamanders. Once the amphibians…