Brain structure in post-traumatic stress disorder
2013-11-05
Brain structure in post-traumatic stress disorder
Wars, earthquakes, major traffic accidents, and terrorist attacks may bring about profound spiritual pains, and even cause extreme fear and helplessness for people that have experienced or witnessed these unusual ...
Treadmill step training promotes motor function after incomplete spinal cord injury
2013-11-05
Treadmill step training promotes motor function after incomplete spinal cord injury
A large body of evidence shows that spinal circuits are significantly affected by training, and that intrinsic circuits that drive locomotor tasks are located in lumbosacral spinal ...
Scientists use light to uncover the cause of sickle cell disease
2013-11-05
Scientists use light to uncover the cause of sickle cell disease
In sickle cell disease, hemoglobin—the oxygen-carrying component of blood—forms fibers that stiffen red blood cells and cause life-threatening symptoms. Using light-scattering techniques to study the detailed ...
New findings could overcome major stumbling blocks to tissue cryopreservation for medical care
2013-11-05
New findings could overcome major stumbling blocks to tissue cryopreservation for medical care
The oldest ice core
2013-11-05
The oldest ice core
Finding a 1.5 million-year record of Earth's climate
How far into the past can ice-core records go? Scientists have now identified regions in Antarctica they say could store information about Earth's climate and greenhouse gases extending as ...
SCIENCE CHINA chemistry special topic: Extraction of uranium from seawater
2013-11-05
SCIENCE CHINA chemistry special topic: Extraction of uranium from seawater
2013 No.11 issue of SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry published a special topic on extraction of uranium from Seawater recently.
Owing to the fast economic growing and the concern over greenhouse gases and ...
VC predicts the motion of the ocean
2013-11-05
VC predicts the motion of the ocean
ANU Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Young AO, has just published research that will help you every morning with the surf report.
Research led by the Vice-Chancellor will allow oceanographers and meteorologists to better ...
Emissions pricing revenues could overcompensate profit losses of fossil fuel owners
2013-11-05
Emissions pricing revenues could overcompensate profit losses of fossil fuel owners
Yet the instrument of pricing global CO2 emissions could generate a revenue of 32 trillion US dollars over the 21st century, exceeding by far the ...
Machines learn to detect breast cancer
2013-11-05
Machines learn to detect breast cancer
Software that can recognize patterns in data is commonly used by scientists and economics. Now, researchers in the US have applied similar algorithms to help them more accurately diagnose breast cancer. The researchers outline details ...
New discovery could dramatically reduce leishmaniasis treatment doses and side effects
2013-11-05
New discovery could dramatically reduce leishmaniasis treatment doses and side effects
An 83 percent improvement in efficacy in the drug most commonly used to treat leishmaniasis
The Amphotericin B (AmB) is the main active ingredient in the most effective ...
Hypersensitivity to pain produced by early life stress is worsened by later stress exposure
2013-11-05
Hypersensitivity to pain produced by early life stress is worsened by later stress exposure
Reports new study in Biological Psychiatry
Philadelphia, PA, November 5, 2013 – Childhood neglect and abuse, whether physical or psychological, confers a lifetime vulnerability ...
Muggings more than double in London after dark
2013-11-05
Muggings more than double in London after dark
Muggers in London strike around two and half times more often during hours of darkness then in daylight, a new study shows.
The first study to look at the hourly pattern of street robbery in London found a 160% rise ...
New ligament discovered in the human knee
2013-11-05
New ligament discovered in the human knee
Two knee surgeons at University Hospitals Leuven have discovered a previously unknown ligament in the human knee. This ligament appears to play an important role in patients with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears.
Despite ...
Global map provides new insights into land use
2013-11-05
Global map provides new insights into land use
UFZ researchers show the complexity of land use by mapping its common patterns
This news release is available in German. Leipzig. In order to assess the global impacts of land use on the environment ...
Hurricane Sandy's impact measured by millions of Flickr pictures
2013-11-05
Hurricane Sandy's impact measured by millions of Flickr pictures
A new study has discovered a striking connection between the number of pictures of Hurricane Sandy posted on Flickr and the atmospheric pressure in New Jersey as the hurricane crashed through ...
Play promotes emotional healing in children battling serious illnesses
2013-11-05
Play promotes emotional healing in children battling serious illnesses
New research finds that chronically ill children celebrate a successful recovery. It's through their imaginative play with medically themed toys. Laura Nabors, an associate professor of human services ...
Gambling addicts present brain function abnormalities that affect their decision-making capacity
2013-11-05
Gambling addicts present brain function abnormalities that affect their decision-making capacity
University of Granada researchers have analysed similarities and differences in psychological profile and brain function when comparing cocaine addicts and ...
Drug combination therapy causes cancer cells to 'eat themselves'
2013-11-05
Drug combination therapy causes cancer cells to 'eat themselves'
Results from a recent preclinical study have shown that a new drug combination therapy being developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center effectively killed colon, liver, ...
Wollemi National Park bushfires in New South Wales, Australia
2013-11-05
Wollemi National Park bushfires in New South Wales, Australia
NASA's Aqua satellite detected many bushfires in Wollemi National Park, located in the Australian state of New South Wales, outside of Sydney. Sydney is the state capital and the most populated city in ...
Holograms offer hope in fight against malaria, study suggests
2013-11-05
Holograms offer hope in fight against malaria, study suggests
Scientists have developed a 3D filming technique that could help inform research to stem the spread of malaria.
Creating moving digital holograms of malaria sperm has given researchers fresh insights into the behaviour ...
Transgender patients have special needs in the ER
2013-11-05
Transgender patients have special needs in the ER
WASHINGTON — While approximately one-third of transgender (trans) patients needed emergency care in the previous year, only 71 percent of those with self-reported need indicated they were able to obtain ...
How pigeons may smell their way home
2013-11-05
How pigeons may smell their way home
Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds require a 'map' (to tell them home is south, for example) and ...
Ethical research with minorities
2013-11-05
Ethical research with minorities
Johns Hopkins bioethicist Nancy Kass is a guest editor of the AJPH special issue taking a comprehensive look at the current ethical landscape of human subjects research with minority populations
Remarkable improvements in the quality of ...
Internet helps ensure mother knows best when it comes to preventing childhood obesity
2013-11-05
Internet helps ensure mother knows best when it comes to preventing childhood obesity
University of Cincinnati research shows how Web-based, at-home interventions can help mothers address behaviors known to protect against childhood obesity
Never underestimate ...
A single-atom light switch
2013-11-05
A single-atom light switch
With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fibre optic cables at the Vienna University of Technology. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and communication technology
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