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Environment 2013-11-11

Visualizing the past: Nondestructive imaging of ancient fossils

Visualizing the past: Nondestructive imaging of ancient fossils New study integrates visualization techniques to examine 150-million-year-old plant fossils without damaging specimens By integrating high-resolution X-ray imaging (termed microCT), 3D image segmentation, and computer ...
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Science 2013-11-11

When care is omitted -- new research on a taboo topic

When care is omitted -- new research on a taboo topic Registered nurses in hospitals often lack the time for nursing care activities, such as comfort or talk with patients or educating patients and relatives. A study by the Institute of Nursing Sciences at the University ...
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Physics 2013-11-11

Levitating foam liquid under the spell of magnetic fields

Levitating foam liquid under the spell of magnetic fields Foams fascinate, partly due to their short lifespan. Foams change as fluid drains out of their structure over time. It is precisely their ephemeral nature which has, until now, prevented scientists from ...
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Science 2013-11-11

What are you scared of?

What are you scared of? Different brain regions process different types of fear What do bullies and sex have in common? Based on work by scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Monterotondo, Italy, it seems that the same part ...
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Environment 2013-11-11

Green poison-dart frog varies mating call to suit situation

Green poison-dart frog varies mating call to suit situation Study suggests the green variety of this species trades off risk of becoming prey for better chances of securing a mate with bold calling behavior In the eyes of a female poison-dart frog, a red male isn't much ...
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Medicine 2013-11-11

Could deceased heart attack victims expand donor pool?

Could deceased heart attack victims expand donor pool? Livers from donors with pre-hospital cardiac arrest considered for transplant Researchers from the U.K. suggest that using organs from donors after circulatory death (DCD) who also suffered a previous cardiac arrest out of ...
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Science 2013-11-11

Nail gun injuries on the rise

Nail gun injuries on the rise Young males in the work environment are at greatest risk of sustaining a nail gun injury to their non-dominant hand, a new study has found. Writing in the latest Early View issue of Emergency Medicine Australasia, the journal of the Australasian College for ...
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Science 2013-11-11

Methane-munching microorganisms meddle with metals

Methane-munching microorganisms meddle with metals On the continental margins, where the seafloor drops hundreds of meters below the water's surface, low temperatures and high pressure lock methane inside ice crystals. Called methane hydrates, these ...
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Science 2013-11-11

@Toxicology in the Twittersphere: More than just 140 characters

@Toxicology in the Twittersphere: More than just 140 characters A valuable role exists for the use of social media in medicine, new research has shown. Dr Joe-Anthony Rotella, in a letter to the editor in the latest Early View issue of Emergency Medicine Australasia, the journal of the ...
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Medicine 2013-11-11

Signal found to enhance survival of new brain cells

Signal found to enhance survival of new brain cells Implications for treating neurodegenerative disease, mental illness A specialized type of brain cell that tamps down stem cell activity ironically, perhaps, encourages the survival of the stem cells' progeny, Johns ...
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