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Building a better blood-brain barrier model
Blood-brain-barrier spheroids present high level of efflux pump (left: green) and tight junctions (center and right: green) on the surface of each spheroid to...
Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor
Brad Mahon, Ph.D., Dan Fabbio, and Web Pilcher, M.D., Ph.D., watching footage of surgery to remove tumor from Fabbio's brain.
Credit: Image courtesy of University...
What does music mean? Sign language may offer an answer
What can sign language teach us about music?
Credit: © whiteshadow18 / Fotolia
How do we detect the meaning of music? We may gain some insights...
Farthest active inbound comet yet seen
This illustration shows the orbit of comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS (K2) on its maiden voyage into the solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope observed...
Why does divorce run in families? The answer may be genetics
These findings are notable because they diverge from the predominant narrative in divorce literature, which suggests that the offspring of divorced parents are more...
How does our brain form creative and original ideas?
According to the researchers, creativity is our ability to think in new and original ways to solve problems.
Credit: © Photographee.eu / Fotolia
Developing an original...
Prehistoric humans are likely to have formed mating networks to avoid inbreeding
Detail of one of the burials from Sunghir, in Russia. The new study sequenced the genomes of individuals from the site and discovered that...
Creative use of noise brings bio-inspired electronic improvement
This is a rendering of what the Osaka University research team's SR device entails.
Credit: Megumi Akai-Kasaya
In conventional electronics, a great deal of effort is...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2017: Gravitational waves
Aerial view of the LIGO Hanford Observatory.
Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017...
Air pollution: Diesel is now better than gas, emitting fewer carbonaceous particulates
New results challenge the existing paradigm that late model diesel cars are associated, in general, with far higher PM emission rates.
Credit: © Tomasz Zajda...
Bumblebees shed light on why some individuals are smarter than others
Bee training on artificial flowers.
Credit: Clint Perry
By examining the brains of bees trained to different tasks, the researchers found that the number of connections...
