A new test for cervical cancer was found to detect all of the cancers in a trial of 15,744 women,…
Injection improves vision in a form of childhood blindness
A new treatment for patients with a form of congenital retinal blindness has shown success in improving vision, according to…
Do you know the carbon footprint of your food choices?
Consumers greatly underestimate the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with their food choices, but they’ll favor items with…
Changes in agriculture could cut sector non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions by up to 50 percent
The agricultural sector is the world’s largest source of non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, and research has found that changing agricultural…
The impacts of whale shark mass tourism on the coral reefs in the Philippines
Whale shark tourism in Tan-awan, Oslob, Philippines has led to degradation of the local coral reef ecosystem.
Passive exposure alone can enhance the learning of foreign speech sounds
Ability to understand and subsequently speak a new language requires the ability to accurately discriminate speech sounds of a given…
Advancing the description of ‘mysterious’ water to improve drug design
Interactions with water dominate how drug molecules bind to targets, but it’s tricky to model these interactions, limiting the accuracy…
Species at the extremes of the food chain evolve faster, study says
Reef fish species at the extremes of the food chain — those that are strict herbivores or strict fish predators…
One type of brain cell may invite Alzheimer’s
Researchers found that excitatory neurons — those that are more likely to trigger an action (as opposed to inhibitory neurons,…
When Report Cards Go Out on Fridays, Child Abuse Increases on Saturdays, Study Finds
Verified cases of child abuse in Florida occurred at higher rates on the Saturdays after the release of report cards…