Disadvantaged women at greater risk of heart disease than men
Women from low socioeconomic backgrounds are 25 per cent more likely to suffer a heart attack than disadvantaged men, a major new study has...
How much drought can a forest take?
Dead trees in the Sierra National Forest in April 2016.Credit: USFS Region 5
Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And...
The evolution of massive galaxy clusters
A multi-wavelength image of the distant massive galaxy cluster, IDCS J1426.5+3508 (X-rays from Chandra in blue, visible light from Hubble in green, and infrared...
Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna
A menagerie of megafauna that inhabited Australia some 45,000 years ago. Credit: Peter Trusler, Monash University
New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of...
Astronomer searches for signs of life on Wolf 1061 exoplanet
An artist's rendering of an exoplanet is shown. An exoplanet is a planet that exists outside Earth's solar system. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
Is there anybody out...
Children with asthma are more likely to become obese
Children with asthma were 51 percent more likely to become obese over the next decade compared to kids who did not have asthma.Image Credit:...
London mayor issues health alert over air pollution
Pollution haze over South East London, through a window in a viewing area of the 95-storey skyscraper The Shard, the tallest building in Britain,...
Are girls really better at reading than boys, or are the tests painting a...
Girls are often said to be better at reading than boys. At least, that is what international reading studies like PIRLS and PISA show....
Chip-sized, high-speed terahertz modulator raises possibility of faster data transmission
THz waves confined in a novel slot waveguide interact with tunable, two-dimensional electron gas.Credit: Nano Lab, Tufts University School of Engineering
Tufts University engineers have...
Your ‘anonmyized’ web browsing history may not be anonymous
Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a study showing that a specific person's online...
In Alzheimer’s, excess tau protein damages brain’s GPS
This is a grid cell from the entorhinal cortex (EC) of the mouse brain, firing repeatedly and uniformly in a grid-like pattern. When a...
