This is a colorized SEM image of a neuron (orange) interfaced with the nanowire array. Credit: Integrated Electronics and Biointerfaces Laboratory, UC San Diego A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has developed nanowires that can...
Credit:Flickr/wateradvocates The value of sanitation at reducing child mortality in many low income countries has been substantially underestimated according to recent research. A study by Prof Paul Hunter from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Dr Annette Prüss-Ustün from The...
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A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity. Credit: © Monkey Business / Fotolia Is social media good for you, or bad? Well, it's complicated. A study of 12 million Facebook users suggests that using Facebook is associated...
People who drink coffee live longer, new research suggests. Credit: © iko / Fotolia Here's another reason to start the day with a cup of joe: Scientists have found that people who drink coffee appear to live longer. Drinking coffee was...
An analysis of over 40,000 commonly available packaged foods and beverages in Canada has found that 66 per cent of these products -- including some infant formulas and baby food products and many so-called 'healthier' foods such as yogurt,...
Happy couple. Credit: © anyaberkut / Fotolia Sex plays a central role in reproduction, and it can be pleasurable, but new findings suggest that it may serve an additional purpose: bonding partners together. A study of newlywed couples, published in Psychological...
This is a schematic diagram of the europium doped gadolinium oxide nanorods and the silica coating to improve the biocompatibility. Invitro cytotoxicity analysis, invitro magnetic resonance imaging and optical imaging of the prepared samples were carried out. Credit: NANO Journal Researchers...
This picture represents scatterplot of pressure and temperature variables from the Hurricane Isabel dataset. The standard design (left) loses fidelity and requires manual adjustment, but the optimized design (right) automatically adapts to the data. Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology...
Around 60-70% of people who have schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations that are typically insulting and threatening. Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia An experimental therapy which involves a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory...
Measles is the fifth vaccine-preventable disease to be eliminated from the Americas, after the regional eradication of smallpox in 1971, poliomyelitis in 1994, and rubella and congenital rubella syndrome in 2015.Credit: © julien_harneis / Flickr The Region of the Americas...
PTSD is a common and debilitating mental disorder that occurs after a traumatic event. Credit: © Feng Yu / Fotolia A large new study from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium provides the first molecular genetic evidence that genetic influences play a role...