Ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatment can affect outcomes, study finds
The ethnicity of women undergoing fertility treatments like IVF can affect the rate of successful live births, according to new research by experts at...
2014 Napa earthquake continued to creep, weeks after main shock
Michael Floyd, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, says that in developing seismic hazard assessments, it’s important to...
Maternal language shapes infants’ cry melodies
The crying of neonates exhibits characteristic melodic patterns influenced typically by their mothers' language.Credit: © kaseymarcum / Flickr
The very first cry of neonates is...
Pacific sea level predicts global temperature changes
The Jason series of US/European satellites can measure the height of the ocean surface.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The amount of sea level rise in the Pacific Ocean...
Paleontologists discover major T. rex fossil
Paleontologists prepare to remove a Tyrannosaurus rex skull from a fossil dig site in northern Montana and transport it to the Burke Museum at...
Perseid Night at Yosemite
The 2016 Perseid meteor shower performed well on the night of August 11/12. The sky on that memorable evening was recorded from a perch...
Flexitime works better for men than women, study finds
Flexitime and having autonomy over working hours -- known as schedule control -- impacts differently on men and women and may increase the gender...
More evidence that ‘healthy obesity’ may be a myth
This graphic abstract represents the findings of Ryden et al, who performed transcriptomic profiling in adipose tissue from nonobese and obese subjects discordant in...
Zika infection may affect adult brain cells
Zika in the adult brain: Illumination of the fluorescent biomarker in green revealed that Zika can infect the adult mouse brain in a region...
Genes responsible for cardiometabolic disease risk identified
In a study being published in the August 19 issue of Science, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in collaboration...
Fluoride consumption linked to diabetes using mathematical models
Fluoridation with sodium fluoride could be a contributing factor to diabetes rates in the United States, as the chemical is a known preservative of...
