Researchers propose new treatment to prevent kidney stones
Engineer Jeffrey Rimer and collaborators have discovered a new molecule that has the potential to be a more effective inhibitor of kidney stone formation.Credit:...
Lake Tanganyika fisheries declining from global warming
(Photo: © David Berger/Flickr)
The new finding shows that overfishing is not the sole reason for the decline in the lake’s fisheries, says study leader...
Towards a better screen: New molecules promise cheaper, more efficient OLED displays
Harvard University researchers have designed more than 1,000 new blue-light emitting molecules for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that could dramatically improve displays for televisions,...
Dormant copies of HIV mostly defective, new study shows
HIV infecting a human cell. Credit: NIH
After fully sequencing the latent HIV "provirus" genomes from 19 people being treated for HIV, scientists at Johns...
Study finds brain connections key to reading
Pathways that exist before kids learn to read may determine development of brain’s word recognition area.
Neuroscientists have long wondered why the brain has a...
Thousands of new cancer cases in Ontario each year due to environmental exposures
This is an infographic of the most important contributors to cancer from the environment.Credit: Public Health Ontario
Between 3,540 and 6,510 new cancer cases in...
Origin of the long body of snakes now discovered
A snake embryo. Credit: Francisca Leal, University of Florida
For many years, researchers have been trying to understand the origin of the exceptionally long trunks...
UVic-led archaeology team makes world-first tool discovery
Blade, positive for rhino residue. Credit: April Nowell.
How smart were human-like species of the Stone Age? New research published in the Journal of Archaeological...
Autism risk in younger children increases if they have older sibling with disorder
A new Kaiser Permanente study found that the risk of younger siblings developing an autism spectrum disorder is 14 times higher if an older...
Got sleep? The amount you get could affect your marital mindset
A new study by two Florida State University researchers found that when husbands and wives get more sleep than on an average night, they...
Vision: When it comes to recognizing shapes, timing is everything
Salk scientists show how visual neurons encode temporal dynamic information. It was previously thought that visual neurons encode information by summing the number of...
