Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate,…
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Improving health facility efficiency could markedly expand HIV treatment
Health facilities in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia could extend life-sustaining antiretroviral therapy to hundreds of…
Plant-based Polio booster vaccine
Scientists have developed an oral vaccine booster for polio by manipulating plants to express a…
Majority of physicians have favorite patients, study finds
Physicians like the majority of their patients, but a majority like some more than others,…
Rationing healthcare: More than half of US doctors say no to clinical services
More than half of US physicians included in a national survey have withheld certain medical…
Urocortin-3: A signaling molecule for making friends
Meeting new people can be both stressful and rewarding. New research suggests that a molecule…
Neuroscientists’ study sheds light on how words are represented in the brain
Using direct neural recordings from the visual word form area, researchers were able to see…
New data on bird population trends and the climate conditions they occupy
A new study of population trends among 46 ecologically diverse bird species in North America…
Higher-income students have an edge when it comes to working memory
Researchers have discovered important differences between lower and higher-income children in their ability to use…
Neurons form synapse clusters
The contact points of cells in the cerebral cortex form functional groups.