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Adoptees advantaged by birth language memory
Language learning very early on in life can be subconsciously retained even when no conscious knowledge of the early experience remains. The subconscious knowledge...
A catalog of habitable zone exoplanets
A plot of the flux incident on an exoplanet (in units of the amount on Earth) versus the host star's temperature. The plot shows...
Malaria drug successfully treats 26-year-old brain cancer patient
Brain cancer regions. Image Credit: Wikimedia
After her brain cancer became resistant to chemotherapy and then to targeted treatments, 26-year-old Lisa Rosendahl's doctors gave her...
New method offers potential for uncovering how cancer begins
At Baylor College of Medicine, scientists have developed a method that allows them to accurately determine the genes expressed in single cells. Among other...
Mounting challenge to brain sex differences
MRI coronal view of the amygdala.Credit: Amber Rieder, Jenna Traynor, Geoffrey B Hall
How different are men and women's brains?
The latest evidence to address this...
Conditions right for complex life may have come and gone in Earth’s distant past
This is a 1.9-billion-year-old stromatolite -- or mound made by microbes that lived in shallow water -- called the Gunflint Formation in northern Minnesota....
Researchers zero-in on cholesterol’s role in cells
A diagram showing cholesterol's (red) predominance in the outer layer of the cell membrane. Cholesterol transport proteins (blue) can alter its distribution between the...
‘5-D protein fingerprinting’ could give insights into Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s
This illustration depicts the device used to measure individual protein. The inset shows proteins (in red) flowing through a nanopore. Credit: University of Michigan
In...
Prolonged exposure to work-related stress thought to be related to some cancers
Prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal, and stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Image Credit:...
Whether our speech is fast or slow, we say about the same
A new study finds that whether we talk fast or slow we all communicate about the same amount of information in a given time....
A tale of two pulsars’ tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers
An artist's representation of what the three unusual tails of the pulsar Geminga may look like close up. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is giving...
