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Toxic metals found in e-cigarette liquids
A new study found high levels of toxic metals in the liquid that creates the aerosol that e-cigarette users inhale when they vape.Image credit:...
Sitting not linked to incident diabetes, new research suggests
Sitting may not be as deadly as previously thought.Credit: © tripu / Flickr
Sitting may not be as deadly as previously thought, with new research...
Bohr’s quantum theory revised
Niels Bohr and Paul Ehrenfest (with his son) at Leiden train station (Holland) in 1926. / Credit: Courtesy of the Niels Bohr Archive, Copenhagen
Bohr's...
Researchers add a splash of human intuition to planning algorithms
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are trying to improve automated planners by giving them the benefit of human intuition. By...
Air pollution linked to heightened risk of type 2 diabetes in obese Latino children
Exposure to heightened air pollution during childhood increases the risk for Hispanic children to become obese and, independent of that, to also develop Type...
Researchers find chemical switch that may decrease symptoms of schizophrenia
A new study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers has found that in mice, adjusting levels of a compound called kynurenic acid...
Portable superconductivity systems for small motors
Superconductivity, where electrical currents course unhindered through a material, is one of modern physics' most intriguing scientific discoveries. It has many practical uses. Governments,...
Overcoming hurdles in CRISPR gene editing to improve treatment
A cartoon shows gene editing through engineered CRISPR/Cas9En delivery in the Rotello lab at UMass Amherst. The researchers have overcome an obstacle in the...
Bacterium lassoes its way from the mouth to the heart to cause disease
A scanning electron microscope image of Group A Streptococcus (orange) during phagocytic interaction with a human neutrophil (blue). Credit: NIAID
The human mouth can harbour...
Physicists address loophole in tests of Bell’s inequality, using 600-year-old starlight
Physicists from MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere have presented a strong demonstration of quantum entanglement even when vulnerability to the freedom-of-choice loophole...
Computational methods applied to big datasets are compelling tools for historical linguistics
Algorithms search huge datasets in order to determine the relationship among the languages spoken today. Even the comparison of individual words may give us...
