Language disorders in children are the main objective of study of the research group called “Experimental and Applied Speech Therapy” headed by Elvira Mendoza…
FinnSight 2015 is a joint foresight project of Tekes and the Academy of Finland. The core of the foresight project comprised ten expert panels, each of which…
In a survey of more than 6,000 15 and 16-year-old school pupils, researchers found that girls are four times more likely to have engaged in deliberate…
“Depression is a devastating illness, which affects around 10% of people at some point in their life,” says Dr. Guy Debonnel an MUHC psychiatrist, professor in…
Biologists clocked the speed at which the trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus bauri, closes its mandibles at 35 to 64 meters per second, or 78 to 145 miles per hour -…
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new technique they said is better able than currently used technology to find defects…
The approach, which uses advanced molecular methods to measure risk for infection, may also be applicable to other water-borne bacterial diseases. The findings…
Up to three-quarters of the offspring of small crustaceans that feed on a common brown seaweed, for example, are killed when they are exposed to copper at…
The study's senior author, Bruce Walker, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, said that clinical testing of drugs…
One of the primary mysteries of the AIDS epidemic – why the immune system is unable to control HIV infection – may have been solved by an international…
With populations increasing around the globe in recent decades, no one would be surprised by an increase in the amount of noise produced in terrestrial…
Brad Taylor, currently a research associate in the department of biological sciences at Dartmouth, and his colleagues studied a fish called the flannelmouth…
Astronomers have finally learned the identity of a mysterious “Quintuplet Cluster” of stars situated near the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's core: At…
“Unlike water, which speeds up as it passes through a small nozzle, photons of light have less momentum at the center of a focused laser beam,” says Kurt…
The NIST team determined the three-dimensional shape of class IV adenylyl cyclase (AC), an enzyme found in plague bacteria — Yersinia pestis — by purifying…
When bacteria, viruses or parasites attack, immune system cells unleash the soldiers. These ¡§hot¡¨ protein compounds kill invaders ¡V but also trigger…
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