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‘Sandman’s’ role in sleep control discovered
Image illustrating the concept of the sleep homeostat.Credit: Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour/ University of Oxford
Team unpeel one layer of the mystery of...
Flexible Wearable Electronic Skin Patch Offers New Way to Monitor Alcohol Levels
This flexible wearable sensor can be worn on the arm to detect alcohol level. Credit: UC San Diego
Engineers at the University of California San...
First evidence of sleep in flight
Frigatebirds reaches a wingspan of over two meters. They are excellent gliders and can cover several hundred kilometers a day.© B. Voirin
Birds engage in...
What’s wasting power at home? Ask your app!
Researchers at MIT have developed a device and software that could figure out exactly how much power is being used by every appliance, lighting...
NASA: First Map Of Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed – key...
Carbon nanotube “stitches” strengthen composites
MIT aerospace engineers have found a way to bond composite layers, producing a material that is substantially stronger and more resistant to damage than...
Breast microbiome/bacterial differences identified between healthy, cancerous tissue
A team of Mayo Clinic researchers has identified evidence of bacteria in sterilely-obtained breast tissue and found differences between women with and without breast...
New method to measure the energy of a lightning strike
When lightning strikes the sand, it may generate a cylindrical tube of glass, called a fulgurite. This fulgurite has a diameter of approximately 1.2...
New light shed on how vertebrates see: Details in eyes of 300-million-year-old lamprey and...
The fossil of a 300 million year old primitive jawless fish - a lamprey - about 6 cm in length. The eyes are the...
‘Red gene’ in birds, turtles suggests dinosaurs had bird-like color vision
Painted turtle.Credit: Nicole Valenzuela
A gene for red color vision that originated in the reptile lineage around 250m years ago has resulted in the bright...
Elders use brain networks differently for short-term recall
While performing tasks of any difficulty older adults recruited additional between-module connections (gray). In contrast, younger adults only recruited additional between-module connections for the...
