Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently
Traumatic stress affects the brains of adolescent boys and girls differently, according to a new brain-scanning study from the Stanford University School of Medicine....
A hydrogen-rich, passive galaxy
A deep optical image of the gas-rich galaxy GASS 3505 which in at radio wavelengths shows a ring of neutral hydrogen gas, probably a...
Smartphone app for early autism detection being developed
From left to right, Wenyao Xu, University at Buffalo assistant professor of computer science and engineering, and undergraduate Kun Woo Cho, show a smartphone...
Skipping breakfast and not enough sleep can make children overweight
Children skipping breakfast and not having a regular bedtime or sufficient sleep all appear to be important factors in predicting whether a child will...
Link between DNA and chronic widespread joint pain
Image Credit: Flickr/Esther Max
Scientists at King's College London, funded by the charity Arthritis Research UK, have found a link between changes in marks on...
Even physicists are ‘afraid’ of mathematics
Physicists avoid highly mathematical work despite being trained in advanced mathematics, new research suggests.
The study, published in the New Journal of Physics, shows that...
Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light
From stationary to flying qubits at speeds never reached before…. This feat, achieved by a team from Polytechnique Montréal and France’s Centre national de...
4 ways the ozone hole is linked to climate, and 1 way it isn’t
A screenshot from an animation of ~200 three-second exposures displaying the awesome movement of Auroras. Patrick Cullis took pictures of the Milky Way over...
Scientists develop light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future
The operating principle of the proposed translational photomotor. Credit: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
A collaborative of scientists has proposed a model for a...
Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
Meteorite accumulation at Victoria Crater. Credit: University of Stirling
The lack of liquid water on the surface of Mars today has been demonstrated by new...
What Does It Take to Make a Memory? Study Says New Proteins
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have now for the first time identified a sub-region in the brain that...
