A new Penn study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, has found and tested in an animal model of Alzheimer’s disease a class of drug that is…
The results, published in Nature Communications, have special significance for the design of future electronic devices for computations and telecommunications,…
The occurrence of these events is apparently chaotic but they obey the same statistical principles, a German-Chinese team of scientists around Jürgen Kurths…
Anna Hedtjärn Wester has done research into men in suits among three different groups in society a century ago: princes, artists, and hod-carriers. At the turn…
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a significant increase in lung transplant rejection, according to research conducted at Loyola University Health System…
Nanoparticles are the foundation of nanotechnology and their performance depends on their structure, composition, and size. Researchers will now be able to…
Phone calls with a peer facing the same self-management challenges helped diabetes patients manage their conditions and improved their blood sugar levels…
Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the…
“We ask whether the powerful and powerless differentially value the self versus others, and whether this, in turn, translates into observable differences in…
“Two factors contribute to this intriguing effect,” write authors Manoj Thomas (Cornell University), Kalpesh Kaushik Desai (State University of New York,…
“Our studies showed that people who had been made envious of someone who owned an iPhone were willing to pay 80 Euros more on average,” write authors Niels van…
Taking a cue from the world of business-performance experts and baseball talent scouts, Penn Medicine translational medicine researchers are among the first to…
The structure of the university in the 21st century is changing rapidly after its evolution into a multiversity in the 20th century. But as universities are…
Single cells build up a tissue by communicating with their environment and with other cells, thereby receiving instructions on whether to divide, change shape…
“The study shows for the first time that the concentration of PGEs, propylene glycol and glycol ethers, in bedroom air was linked to an increased risk of…
On November 16 and 17, 2010, the third eSciDoc Days will be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event is held by FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz…