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Life & Chemistry

New Vortex Innovation Helps Bats Master Flight Stability

Honey bees and hummingbirds can hover like helicopters for minutes at a time, sucking the juice from their favorite blossoms while staying aloft in a swirl of…

Life & Chemistry

New Mouse Model Accelerates Pediatric Tumor Drug Discovery

Instead of studying one mouse model of the disease causing the brain tumors, the laboratory of David Gutmann, M.D., Ph.D., the Donald O. Schnuck Family…

Health & Medicine

Understanding Sleep Quality: Insights from Insomniacs and Normal Sleepers

Further, people with insomnia have more requirements for judging sleep to be of good quality, according to a study published in the March 1 issue of the…

Studies and Analyses

Stimulant ADHD Treatment Shows No Future Substance Abuse Risk

A new study finds that the use of stimulant drugs to treat children with ADHD has no effect on their future risk of substance abuse. The report, which will…

Studies and Analyses

Study Links Home Allergen Levels to Asthma Symptoms

The study suggests that asthmatics that have allergies may alleviate symptoms by reducing allergen exposures inside their homes. The work was carried out by…

Life & Chemistry

Zebrafish Tool Helps Screen Genes and Drugs for Hearing Loss

In a study published in the Feb. 29 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers at the University of Washington have developed a research method that…

Health & Medicine

Low-Fat Diets Linked to Lower Heart Disease Risk, Study Finds

The study, published in the February edition of the scientific journal Hypertension, was led by David D. Gutterman, M.D., Northwestern Mutual Professor of…

Studies and Analyses

Empowering Inner-City Teens: Study on Resisting Alcohol Ads

The results of a three-year study of inner-city middle school students by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers appears online in the journal Addictive…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Stakeholders Collaborate on Wood Supply Solutions from Forests

The “Wood Supply Analysis” report identifies a potential supply of up to 850 million cubic feet of wood and 8 million tons of biomass from branches and timber…

Physics & Astronomy

Final ATLAS Detector Piece Lowered: A Milestone in Physics

Today Brandeis researchers in the U.S. ATLAS collaboration joined colleagues around the world to celebrate a pivotal landmark in the construction of the Large…

Medical Engineering

Live Cells Detect Food-Borne Pathogens for Safety Solutions

The technique, which has potential biosecurity and food safety applications, also can estimate the amount of microbes present and whether they pose an active…

Health & Medicine

Children with autism may learn from 'virtual peers'

Justine Cassell, professor of communication studies and electrical engineering and computer science, recently presented a preliminary study on the work at a…

Health & Medicine

Psoriasis Therapy Shows No Advantage Over Placebo, Study Finds

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that despite strong scientific evidence in the laboratory demonstrating the ability of…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Explores Financial Struggles for Autism Families

The information that a child has been diagnosed with autism often throws parents into an emotional tailspin. A new study from a University of Missouri…

Studies and Analyses

Late Referrals to Nephrologists: Key Findings from Recent Study

An analysis of 18 separate studies found that overall, being older, belonging to a minority group, being uninsured and suffering from multiple health problems…

Studies and Analyses

New Environmental Performance Index Aids Global Monitoring

For countries without their own environmental monitoring systems, the Environmental Performance Index (EPI) can be useful for working out where there is a need…

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