Women with hearing loss more likely to have preterm or low birth weight babies
Hearing loss is a marginalizing and disabling condition, resulting in various adverse social and health outcomes. Babies born to women with hearing loss were...
In Bird Feathers, Scientists Find Hints About Color of Extinct Animals
Scientists were able to map the chemical environments of two different types of melanin, a pigment responsible for black/dark brown or reddish/yellow color in...
How to merge two black holes in a simple way
The merger of two black holes, where one is so large that only a portion of it --nearly flat-- is shown, while the other,...
Ötzi – a treacherous murder – with links to Central Italy
Ötzi's axe.Credit: © South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology
The copper used to make Ötzi's axe blade did not come from the Alpine region as had...
Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our sun. The star is ending...
This device traps single cancer cells for analysis
(Credit: National University of Singapore)
A microfluidic chip invented by engineers from NUS and start-up Clearbridge mFluidics is a world’s first in using microfluidic flow...
Study Finds Apple and Lettuce Can Remedy Garlic Breath
Garlic -- consumers either love or hate the taste, but one thing is for certain, no one likes it when the scent of it...
Yoga may not count toward 30 minutes of daily physical activity, but may have...
Credit: Flickr/daverose215
Hatha yoga is an increasingly popular form of physical activity and meditative practice in the U.S. It is important to understand the calorie...
Resonance in Rainbow Bridge
Oblique view of Rainbow Bridge, Utah.Credit: Jeff Moore
Utah's iconic Rainbow Bridge hums with natural and human-made vibrations, according to a new University of Utah...
Engineers create room-temperature multiferroic material
Multiferroics -- materials that exhibit both magnetic and electric order -- are of interest for next-generation computing but difficult to create because the conditions...
Big data gives insight into appeal of services like Uber
Credit: Flickr/freestocks
In a novel test of the benefit a company can generate for consumers, a new study estimates just how much consumers are gaining...
