School-aged children can be taught to better their mental health through intervention programmes delivered at…
Month: May 2017
Cell biology: A molecular rivet for long-range force transmission
Researchers have described, for the first time, how plastin, an actin-bundling protein, acts as a…
Oversized landforms discovered beneath the Antarctic ice sheet
Scientists have now discovered an active hydrological system of water conduits and sediment ridges below…
Right-or left-handedness affects sign language comprehension
The speed at which sign language users understand what others are ‘saying’ to them depends…
What’s the Best Way for Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Address Abdominal Pain?
When researchers analyzed published studies on how to treat recurrent abdominal pain among patients with…
Update on popular fish model of development
Annual killifish are an excellent animal model for research on interactions between genes and the…
Is our social media behavior still influenced by our culture? This is how Finns, Poles and Americans differ
Even though we think ourselves as global citizens, we still differ in terms of how…
Methane-munching microbes living in the deep biosphere for 400 million years: An analogue for extra-terrestrial life
It is becoming more and more appreciated that a major part of the biologic activity…
Power plants could cut a third of their emissions by using solar energy
The COMBO-CFB project has developed a new innovative concept to increase solar energy production in…
South African cave yields yet more fossils of a newfound relative
Probing deeper into the South African cave system known as Rising Star, which last year…