NEW YORK, N.Y. (January 27, 2014)— A new study finds that ...

A potentially fatal bacterial disease of the heart, infective endocarditis frequently affects the heart's tricuspid ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Federica Sgorbissa pressroom@sissa.it 39-040-378-7644 International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) Animate, inanimate, but also social 'Social' groups form a discrete category in the brain For our brain, animate and inanimate objects belong to different categories and any information about them is stored and processed by different ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown that deep sea fault zones could transport much larger amounts of water from the Earth's oceans to the upper mantle than previously thought. Seismologists at Liverpool ...

Winston-Salem, N.C. – Jan. 27, 2014 – More than 25 million people in the United States have asthma, a chronic lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways ...

An article entitled "Geologic characteristics of the Chang'E-3 exploration region"was published online for SCIENCE CHINA Physics, ...

Humans, by most estimates, discovered fire over a million years ago. But when did they really begin to control fire and use ...

Contract killing is one of the least studied, but most intriguing areas of organized crime; and new research into British hitmen has found that in some cases victims were murdered for as little as £200. The ...

Researchers from the University of Southern Denmark have identified how a mutated protein can lead to holes in a protein sitting in a cell's membrane. Such holes cause high blood pressure, and the discovery can now lead ...

This news release is available in German. Scientists from Paris, Newcastle and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin have been able to switch on and off robust ferromagnetism ...

New types of solotronic structures, including the world's first quantum dots containing single cobalt ions, have been created and studied at the Faculty ...

This news release is available in Spanish. This innovation enables 3D images of living organisms to be obtained with greater speed and precision. In broad terms, helical optical projection tomography consists in ...

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A new, free app will allow smartphone users to measure their cellphone use. Computer scientists and psychologists from the University of ...

A team of scientists from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles and the University of California at Davis describe ten new species of Temnothorax ants, doubling the number of species of this ...

This news release is available in German. All of us backboned animals – at least the ones who also have jaws – have four fins or limbs, one pair in front ...

BOSTON (Jan. 27, 2014) -- Deprivation of vision during critical periods of childhood development has long been thought to ...

Do scientific papers written by well-known scholars ...

Alcohol use is more likely ...

Poor-quality sleep marked by frequent awakenings can speed cancer growth, increase tumor aggressiveness and dampen the immune system's ability to control ...

"You can't compare apples and oranges. For the most part, children whose parents immigrated to Sweden in the 1960s and 1970s have a working-class background, while the children of the majority population ...

A biomarker widely used to diagnose brain injury has shown early promise ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Silk and diamonds aren't just for ties and jewelry anymore. They're ingredients for a new kind of tiny glowing particle that could provide doctors and researchers with a novel technique ...

"I didn't see it, because I wasn't expecting it there," might be the more accurate ...

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 27-Jan-2014 [ | E-mail ] var addthis_pub="eurekalert"; var addthis_options = "favorites, delicious, digg, facebook, twitter, google, newsvine, reddit, slashdot, stumbleupon, buzz, more" Share Contact: Nicholas Vasi nvasi@illinois.edu Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Genomics for judges: Educating Illinois judges on how genetic info impacts court decisions New seminar prepares judges to deal with legal questions involving DNA sequencing, analysis, and related technologies in the courts today ...