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Brain Fitness Programs Boost Walking Speed in Frail Seniors

Now, a study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has found preliminary evidence that such programs may help frail…

Earth Sciences

Gondwana’s Major Shift During Cambrian Explosion Explained

Gondwana made up the southern half of Pangaea, the giant supercontinent that constituted the Earth’s landmass before it broke up into the separate continents…

Medical Engineering

Rutgers Study Uses MRI to Assess Prostate Cancer Severity

Rutgers researchers are developing methods that can accurately assess the severity of prostate cancer by analyzing magnetic resonance images and spectra of a…

Studies and Analyses

Heart's sounds can help diagnose heart failure

It allows them to hear the S3, an abnormal third sound in the heart's rhythm strongly associated with cardiac disease and heart failure. However, the…

Medical Engineering

Molecular Imaging: Identifying High-Risk Heart Disease Patients

A study published in the August Journal of Nuclear Medicine (JNM) finds that molecular imaging—a non-invasive imaging procedure—can identify high-risk patients…

Life & Chemistry

Proteins linked with Alzheimer's, other neurodegenerative diseases found to clump in normal aging

These aggregates contain proteins that are unique to each disease, such as amyloid beta in Alzheimer's disease, but they are intertwined with small amounts of…

Studies and Analyses

Impact of Menstrual Cramps on Brain Structure Explained

Primary dysmenorrhea (PDM), or menstrual cramps, is the most common gynecological disorder in women of childbearing age. Lower abdominal pain starts with the…

Life & Chemistry

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Heart Health Insights from New Study

Along with skeletal muscles, it may be important to monitor heart function in patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). These are the findings from a study…

Life & Chemistry

Mona Lisa’s Secret

Mona Lisa’s mystical smile still puts viewers under a spell. Leonardo Da Vinci attained the perfection and finesse of his paintings with a technique he himself…

Materials Sciences

Study of Multilayer Graphene Finds Energy Gaps

In the Aug. 8 advance online edition of the journal Nature Physics, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of…

Life & Chemistry

Evidence Early Reptiles Were First Vertebrates to Live on Dry River Plains

A few small steps for an ancient tetrapod, one huge step for science. Turns out that was some walk — providing evidence that early reptiles were the first…

Studies and Analyses

Charcoal Takes Some Heat Off Global Warming

“These calculations show that biochar can play a significant role in the solution for the planet’s climate change challenge,” said study co-author Jim…

Physics & Astronomy

An 'Island Universe' in the Coma Cluster

The galaxy, known as NGC 4911, contains rich lanes of dust and gas near its center. These are silhouetted against glowing newborn star clusters and iridescent…

Life & Chemistry

Imaging study sheds light on neural origins of baby talk

Neural processing in the brains of parents talking to their babies may reveal secrets about early stages of language acquisition in infants. This according to…

Physics & Astronomy

New Research Group Explores Electron Correlation in Physics

In many chemical elements and their compounds electrons exercise a huge influence over one another. In such cases, physicists talk of electronically correlated…

Information Technology

Multi-Core Virtualization: The Future of Smartphones

eMuCo (Embedded Multi-Core Processing for Mobile Communications) opens the door to the next generation of smart phones bringing for first time the combination…

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