Researchers sat down with 30 teens to better understand their perceptions of driving and distractions…
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Nanoscale ‘drawbridges’ open path to color displays
A new method for building ‘drawbridges’ between metal nanoparticles could open new paths for electronics…
Study undercuts idea that ‘Medieval Warm Period’ was global
A new study questions the popular notion that 10th-century Norse people were able to colonize…
Autoimmune epilepsy outcomes depend heavily on antibody type
Immune dysfunction is increasingly recognized as a cause of drug-resistant epilepsy but how or why…
Scientists develop ‘Shazam for earthquakes’
A new algorithm designed to find matching seismic signals in large earthquake databases could find…
No two faces are the same
Researchers have been studying a likely congenital dysfunction that is characterized by the inability to…
Certain herpes viruses can infect human neurons
Epstein-Barr virus and Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus can infect and replicate in cultured and primary neurons,…
Solar water splitting: Putting an extra ‘eye’ on surface reactions that store sunlight as fuel
Water-splitting cells absorb sunlight and produce fuel. Creating such cells means pairing a material to…
Shape shifters: Demonstrating tunable phase shifting
Scientists devised a new approach that balances attractions between particles and promises to become a…
Gene pair plays crucial role in colon cancer, vet team shows
Two related genes in the Musashi family are required for colon cancer to develop, researchers…