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Affordable Fixed Braces: Solutions for Children’s Crossbite

Calculations indicate that at least ten percent of all eight- and nine-year-olds in Sweden have so-called crossbite. This means that the children’s upper and…

Studies and Analyses

AAN Updates Guidelines for Essential Tremor Treatment

Essential tremor affects the hands, head and voice and can be disabling for the estimated 10 million people in the United States living with the disorder….

Physics & Astronomy

A Further Step in the Design of the LAGUNA Large Neutrino Observatory Is Launched

The principal goal of LAGUNA (Large Apparatus for Grand Unification and Neutrino Astrophysics) is to assess the feasibility of a new pan-European research…

Earth Sciences

Solving the Mysteries of Short-Legged Neandertals

Their research was published online in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and will appear in print in the November issue.“Studies looking at limb…

Physics & Astronomy

Superconductivity and Magnetism Have a Delicate Balance

By modifying a familiar tool in nanoscience – the Scanning Tunneling Microscope – a team at Cornell University’s Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics…

Life & Chemistry

Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated with Brain Evolution

The correlation suggests that scientists studying the evolution of the human brain should look to genes considered recent by evolutionary standards and early…

Studies and Analyses

Comparing Comfort: Books vs. Screens for Reading

A book or a screen – which of these two offers more reading comfort? There are no disadvantages to reading from electronic reading devices compared with…

Health & Medicine

Early HIV Treatment Boosts Survival in TB Co-Infected Patients

Boston, Mass. – Timing is everything when treating patients with both HIV and tuberculosis. Starting HIV therapy in such patients within two weeks of TB…

Health & Medicine

UT Southwestern’s Breakthrough Research on IBD Treatments

Taken together, these studies provide a new understanding of the unique intestinal environment and suggest new strategies for the prevention of inflammatory…

Health & Medicine

Future-Directed Therapy Boosts Positivity in Depression Patients

Patients with major depression do better by learning to create a more positive outlook about the future, rather than by focusing on negative thoughts about…

Physics & Astronomy

Spiral arms point to possible planets in a star's dusty disk

“Detailed computer simulations have shown us that the gravitational pull of a planet inside a circumstellar disk can perturb gas and dust, creating spiral…

Health & Medicine

Are Acid-Suppressing Drugs Overprescribed for Infants?

Pediatricians often prescribe acid-suppressing drugs for these symptoms in an effort to treat infants for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); however, GERD…

Earth Sciences

NASA releases visual tour of Earth's fires

The visualizations show fire observations made by the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua…

Health & Medicine

Brain Study Uncovers Secrets to Overcoming Math Anxiety

Using brain-imaging technology for the first time with people experiencing mathematics anxiety, University of Chicago scientists have gained new insights into…

Studies and Analyses

How Estrogen Regulates Brain Function and Weight Control

“Estrogen has a profound effect on metabolism,” said Dr. Deborah Clegg, associate professor of internal medicine and senior author of the study published Oct….

Life & Chemistry

Scientists create computing building blocks from bacteria and DNA

The researchers, from Imperial College London, have demonstrated that they can build logic gates, which are used for processing information in devices such as…

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