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March 7, 2017

PTSD Risk Can Be Predicted by Hormone Levels Prior to Deployment, Study Says

Mar. 7, 2017 — Some soldiers might have a hormonal predisposition to experience such stress-related disorders, new research ... read more

Iota Orionis: Pulsating Beacon of a Constellation

Mar. 7, 2017 — Using the world's smallest astronomical satellites, researchers have detected the biggest stellar heartbeat ever. Astronomers are hopeful that this discovery will provide the initiative to ... read more

Safer to Ride in Yellow Taxis

Mar. 7, 2017 — A new study has found an explicit link between a taxi’s color and its accident rate, with yellow taxis being safer than blue ones. These findings suggest that color visibility plays a major role in ... read more

Modern Hunter-Gatherers Relocate to Maximize Foraging Efficiency, Study Finds

Mar. 6, 2017 — As bumblebees forage for nectar, at a certain point, they will move to another area once their search for food becomes too inefficient -- a behavior, also observed among other animals, which conforms ... read more

Cargo-Carrying Red Blood Cells Alleviate Autoimmune Diseases in Mice

Mar. 6, 2017 — Using red blood cells modified to carry disease-specific antigens, a team of scientists have prevented and alleviated two autoimmune diseases -- multiple sclerosis (MS) and type 1 diabetes -- in ... read more

Brain Cells Show Teamwork in Short-Term Memory

Mar. 6, 2017 — Nerve cells in our brains work together in harmony to store and retrieve short-term memory, and are not solo artists as previously thought, new brain research has determined. The research has ... read more

Study Shows How Skates, Rays and Sharks Sense Electrical Fields

Mar. 6, 2017 — Sharks, rays and skates can hunt for prey hidden in the sandy sea floor by 'listening' for faint traces of bioelectricity -- they can literally sense their prey's heart beating. The ... read more

Head Injuries Can Alter Hundreds of Genes and Lead to Serious Brain Diseases

Mar. 6, 2017 — Head injuries can adversely affect hundreds of genes in the brain that put people at high risk for diseases including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, post-traumatic stress disorder, stroke, ADHD, ... read more

Stream of Surprises from the Atlantic Cod Genome

Mar. 6, 2017 — Researchers keep discovering surprises in the Atlantic cod genome. The most recent study has revealed an unusual amount of short and identical DNA sequences, which might give cod an evolutionary ... read more

One-Two Punch May Floor Worst Infections

Mar. 6, 2017 — Scientists have discovered the antiprotozoal drug pentamidine disrupts the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria, even the most resistant. The anti-fungal medication was particularly potent when ... read more

New Method Rescues Donor Organs to Save Lives

Mar. 6, 2017 — Researchers have -- for the first time -- maintained a fully functional lung outside the body for several days. They designed the cross-circulation platform that maintained the viability and function ... read more

Break the Two-Hour Marathon Record? It Could Be Done Today

Mar. 6, 2017 — A series of mathematical calculations has been done showing how one or more of the world's elite men marathoners could break the storied two-hour mark, shaving about four and a half minutes off ... read more

Infant MRIs Show Autism Linked to Increased Cerebrospinal Fluid

Mar. 6, 2017 — A national research network found that many toddlers diagnosed with autism at two years of age had a substantially greater amount of extra-axial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at six and 12 months of age, ... read more

Underwater Mountains Help Ocean Water Rise from Abyss

Mar. 6, 2017 — At high latitudes, such as near Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, the ocean's surface waters are cooled by frigid temperatures and become so dense that they sink a few thousand meters into the ... read more

Water-Rich History on Mars: New Evidence

Mar. 6, 2017 — Mars may have been a wetter place than previously thought, according to research on simulated Martian ... read more

Cold Extermination: One of Greatest Mass Extinctions Was Due to an Ice Age and Not to Earth's Warming

Mar. 6, 2017 — The Earth has known several mass extinctions over the course of its history. One of the most important happened at the Permian-Triassic boundary 250 million years ago. Over 95% of marine species ... read more

Microbiome Diversity Is Influenced by Chance Encounters

Mar. 3, 2017 — Chance is an overlooked factor in the wide variation of microbe gut populations between individuals, new research suggests. These microbiome variations, which are also affected by diet and ... read more

Novel 3-D Manufacturing Leads to Highly Complex, Bio-Like Materials

Mar. 3, 2017 — Researchers have developed a unique, 3-D manufacturing method that for the first time rapidly creates and precisely controls a material's architecture from the nanoscale to centimeters -- with ... read more

Evolution of Bipedalism in Ancient Dinosaur Ancestors

Mar. 3, 2017 — Paleontologists have developed a new theory to explain why the ancient ancestors of dinosaurs stopped moving about on all fours and rose up on just their two hind ... read more

Painkillers Without Dangerous Side Effects

Mar. 3, 2017 — Researchers have discovered a new way of developing painkillers. When used in an animal model, their prototype of a morphine-like molecule was able to produce substantial pain relief in inflamed ... read more
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