A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel…
Psychedelic drugs such as LSD and magic mushrooms can profoundly alter the way we experience the world but little is known about what physically happens in the…
The use of such tubes can lead to persistent gastrocutaneous fistulae, or the failure of the opening to close on its own, resulting in a need for surgical…
The CGA, first developed in the 1930s, is a multidimensional diagnostic process that looks at a frail elderly person's medical, psychosocial, and functional…
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and the Copenhagen University Hospital have identified a particular genetic mutation that may cause parkinsonism in…
In 2010, 14 per cent of the people of Sweden had access to a smartphone; three years later, in 2013, the figure is 67 per cent. More time is devoted to both…
The contract recently sealed with Spanish operating company Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), which is worth around € 210 million to the…
Nachhaltigkeit spielt nicht nur in der Klimaforschung oder für die Energiegewinnung eine Rolle, sondern beispielsweise auch in Sport, Gesundheit oder…
Engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated a class of walking “bio-bots” powered by muscle cells and controlled with electrical…
Bacteria love to colonize surfaces inside your body, but they have a hard time getting past your rugged, salty skin. Surgeries to implant medical devices often…
The faster construction is achieved by pre-fabricating the columns and beams off-site and shipping them to the site, where they are erected and connected…
Kangaroos may be nature's best hoppers. But when they are grazing on all fours, which is most of the time, their tail becomes a powerful fifth leg, says a new…
To limit climate change to 2° Celsius, low-carbon energy options will need additional investments of about US $800 billion a year globally from now to…
Video games have the potential to educate the public and encourage development of creative solutions to social, economic and environmental problems, said…
New research at UC Berkeley has found that people are better and faster at navigating tactile technology when using both hands and several fingers.
A new study by a Cornell University researcher found this coating is especially thick and pronounced on cancer cells and is a crucial determinant of the cell's…
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