Video game play may provide learning, health, social benefits, review finds
2013-11-25
Video game play may provide learning, health, social benefits, review finds
Authors suggest balancing questions of harm with potential for positive impact
WASHINGTON – Playing video games, including violent shooter games, may boost children's learning, health ...
2-way traffic enable proteins to get where needed, avoid disease
2013-11-25
2-way traffic enable proteins to get where needed, avoid disease
Augusta, Ga. - It turns out that your messenger RNA may catch more than one ride to get where it's going.
Scientists have found that mRNA may travel one way down a cell, ...
University Of Massachusetts Medical School scientists re-imagine how genomes are assembled
2013-11-25
University Of Massachusetts Medical School scientists re-imagine how genomes are assembled
Using DNA interaction frequency data, UMMS faculty develop quicker, more accurate method for assembling complex genome sequences
WORCESTER, MA ...
Drug interactions causing a significant impact on statin use
2013-11-25
Drug interactions causing a significant impact on statin use
CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study has found that many people who stopped taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs were also taking an average of three other drugs that interfered with the normal metabolism of the statins.
The ...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Alessia make landfall near Darwin
2013-11-25
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Alessia make landfall near Darwin
Tropical Cyclone made landfall near Darwin, Australia on November 24 as a weak tropical storm as NASA's TRMM satellite passed overhead and measured its rainfall.
The final warning on the tropical storm ...
Turning autism upside down: When symptoms are strengths
2013-11-25
Turning autism upside down: When symptoms are strengths
Alternative treatment focuses on controlling the 'fight or flight' response
A novel approach to treating children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder could help them navigate their world by teaching ...
Rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to ancient mass extinction
2013-11-25
Rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to ancient mass extinction
MIT researchers find that rain as acidic as lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land 252 million years ago
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice may have ...
Broken cellular 'clock' linked to brain damage
2013-11-25
Broken cellular 'clock' linked to brain damage
A new discovery may help explain the surprisingly strong connections between sleep problems and neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
Sleep loss increases the risk of Alzheimer's ...
Research: Materialism makes bad events even worse
2013-11-25
Research: Materialism makes bad events even worse
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In addition to its already well-documented negative direct effects on a person's well-being, materialism also wields an indirect negative effect by making bad events even ...
UCI, Northwestern researchers create compounds that boost antibiotics' effectiveness
2013-11-25
UCI, Northwestern researchers create compounds that boost antibiotics' effectiveness
Inhibitors could form basis of new treatments for such diseases as MRSA, anthrax
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 25, 2013 — Inhibitor compounds developed by UC Irvine structural ...
NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Lehar over the Andaman Islands
2013-11-25
NASA catches Tropical Cyclone Lehar over the Andaman Islands
The Andaman Islands received an unwelcome visitor on November 25 in the form of Tropical Cyclone Lehar. NASA's Terra satellite captured a picture of the visitor as it was making its exit from the islands ...
First large-scale PheWAS study using EMRs provides systematic method to discover new disease association
2013-11-25
First large-scale PheWAS study using EMRs provides systematic method to discover new disease association
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Vanderbilt University Medical ...
Alzheimer's and vascular changes in the neck
2013-11-25
Alzheimer's and vascular changes in the neck
Buffalo, N.Y. – Studies on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia have long focused on what's happening inside the brain. Now an international research team studying Alzheimer's and mild cognitive impairment ...
Health Affairs Web First articles look at health care across many countries
2013-11-25
Health Affairs Web First articles look at health care across many countries
Bethesda, MD – Shanghai's health care reforms as well as the findings of an eleven-country health care survey are published as Web First articles on Health Affairs' web site in November.
Shanghai's ...
A new, flying jellyfish-like machine
2013-11-25
A new, flying jellyfish-like machine
Researchers present simplified method of robotic flight at APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Pittsburgh
Gene-silencing study finds new targets for Parkinson's disease
2013-11-25
Gene-silencing study finds new targets for Parkinson's disease
NIH study sheds light on treatment of related disorders
Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have used RNA interference (RNAi) technology ...
Decay used to construct quantum information
2013-11-25
Decay used to construct quantum information
Usually, when researchers work with quantum information, they do everything they can to prevent the information from decaying. Now researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have flipped ...
Diamond 'flaws' pave way for nanoscale MRI
2013-11-25
Diamond 'flaws' pave way for nanoscale MRI
By exploiting flaws in miniscule diamond fragments, researchers say they have achieved enough coherence of the magnetic moment inherent in these defects to harness their potential for precise quantum sensors in a ...
NIST demonstrates how losing information can benefit quantum computing
2013-11-25
NIST demonstrates how losing information can benefit quantum computing
BOULDER, Colo -- Suggesting that quantum computers might benefit from losing some data, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have entangled—linked ...
How living cells solved a needle in a haystack problem to produce electrical signals
2013-11-25
How living cells solved a needle in a haystack problem to produce electrical signals
Filtered from a vast sodium sea, more than 1 million calcium ions per second gush through our cells' pores to generate charges
Scientists have figured out how calcium channels – the infinitesimal ...
New genomic study provides a glimpse of how whales could adapt to ocean
2013-11-25
New genomic study provides a glimpse of how whales could adapt to ocean
The latest study was published online in Nature Genetics
November 24, 2013, Shenzhen, China - In a paper published in Nature Genetics, researchers from Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Korea Genome Research ...
Scientists prove X-ray laser can solve protein structures from scratch
2013-11-25
Scientists prove X-ray laser can solve protein structures from scratch
SLAC's linac coherent light source reaches key milestone in decoding biological structures that were out of reach
A study shows for the first time that X-ray lasers can ...
X-rays reveal another feature of high-temperature superconductivity
2013-11-25
X-rays reveal another feature of high-temperature superconductivity
Discovery of a giant resonance puts these materials further apart
Classical and high-temperature superconductors differ hugely in the value of the critical temperatures at which ...
UNL scientists develop novel X-ray device
2013-11-25
UNL scientists develop novel X-ray device
Research quality X-rays could have widespread applications
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 24 – Using a compact but powerful laser, a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has developed a new way to generate ...
Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature
2013-11-25
Unusual greenhouse gases may have raised ancient Martian temperature
Much like the Grand Canyon, Nanedi Valles snakes across the Martian surface suggesting that liquid water once crossed the landscape, according to a team of researchers who believe that molecular hydrogen ...
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