A new, free app will allow smartphone users to measure their cellphone use. Computer scientists and psychologists from the University of Bonn have developed an…
The new particles, just tens of nanometers across, are made of diamond and covered in silk. They can be injected into living cells, and because they glow when…
Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to result in irreversible vision loss. Now, researchers from the…
In the largest retrospective study to date using data from the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) database for adult double-lung transplants, Temple…
The sponges of the future will do more than clean house.Picture this, for example: Doctors use a tiny sponge to soak up a drug and deliver it directly to a…
The team also found that N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) — an inert, or inactive, chemical commonly used as a pesticide additive — is highly toxic to honeybee…
Researchers find changes to protein SirT1 can prevent excess metabolic stress associated with obesity, diabetes and aging.Studies have suggested that the…
Stroke rehabilitation researchers at Kessler Foundation report an association between acute, severe spatial neglect post stroke and long-term recovery of…
‘Grey’ cells process information in the brain and are connected via neural pathways, the tracts through which signals are transferred.”Neural pathways are…
Among other research, the University of Passau will look into the coordination of energy consumption between multiple data centres and develop prediction…
Young massive stars, which have more than 10 times the mass of the Sun, shine brightly in the ultraviolet, heating the gas around them, and it has long been a…
The novel bacteriophage could eventually open up new ways to detect, treat or decontaminate the anthrax bacillus and its relatives that cause food poisoning….
Your best friend swears by the Paleo Diet. Your boss loves Atkins. Your sister is gluten-free, and your roommate is an acolyte of Michael Pollan. So who's…
It’s rare, but sometimes things go wrong. In a matter of minutes, patients’ skin can turn red or blotchy white and the injected area becomes painful. Vital…
Their work, published in Physical Review Letters, examines the role of chemical dopants, which are essential to creating high-temperature superconductors –…
The discovery has important implications for human health because lack of cilia can lead to serious diseases such as polycystic kidney disease, blindness and…
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