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- 09/6/17 03:35
Researchers have used global climatological data and vegetation indices from Costa Rica, to predict Dengue outbreaks in the region.
Researchers have used global climatological data and vegetation indices from Costa Rica, to predict Dengue outbreaks in the region.
There is a high probability of obstructive sleep apnea in nonobese, middle-aged patients, according to new research.
A single gene can control growth in cancers related to the Epstein-Barr virus and that existing therapeutics can inactivate it, according to new research.
Smokers' muscles tire much more quickly than those of non-smokers, irrespective of how many cigarettes they smoke per day or how long they have smoked.
Ultrasonics improves surgeons’ view when they remove tumors from the pituitary gland. Hidden in a little hollow in the skull, at about the level of the eye, we have a gland about the size of a blackcurrant. This is the hypophysis, or pituitary, the body’s center for hormone manufacture. The gland produces a wide range of hormones which in turn control other organs that manufacture yet more...
Scientists have created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between humans and machines (virtual partners). By pitting human against machine, they open up the possibility of exploring and understanding a wide variety of interactions between minds and machines, and establishing the first step toward a much friendlier union of man and machine, and perhaps even creating a different...
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Psychologists have identified a cognitive shortcut they call "Unit Bias," which causes people to ignore vital, obvious information in their decision-making process, points to a fundamental flaw in the modern, evolved mind and may also play a role in the American population's 30 years of weight...
A major barrier to developing a hybrid positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging system could be removed by using a novel approach for reconstructing data, according to researchers.
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which is so large it would extend to Jupiter's orbit in our solar system, has steadily shrunk over the past 15 years, according to physicists. Since 1993, its radius has gone down by 15 percent, equivalent to the radius of Venus's orbit. This conclusion comes from unique laser interferometer...
Rhinosinusitis (infection and inflammation in the sinus passages surrounding the nose) appears to be a primary factor in about one-fifth of toxic shock syndrome cases in children, according to a new article.
A majority of people experiencing chronic insomnia can experience a normalization of sleep parameters through the use of cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, according to new research.
A prototype breast imaging system combining positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging technologies could greatly improve breast cancer imaging capabilities, according to researchers.
Researchers have defined a key target of an evolutionarily conserved protein that regulates the process of aging. The study provides fundamental knowledge about key mechanisms of aging that could point toward new anti-aging strategies and cancer therapies.
By using a super-computer to virtually squeeze and heat iron-bearing minerals under conditions that would have existed when the Earth crystallized from an ocean of magma to its solid form 4.5 billion years ago, geochemists have produced the first picture of how certain forms of iron were initially distributed in the solid...
In the normal lung, the airways are lined by a balanced mixture of ciliated, secretory and neuroendocrine cells which perform functions as diverse as air humidification, detoxification, and clearance of environmental particles. This balance can be altered dramatically by faulty adaptation responses of the lung to cigarette smoke or allergens in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...
Scientists believe they have discovered a key element in the development of chronic asthma. Their research explains why the structure and function of asthmatic airways are changed or ''remodeled'' and how this contributes to chronic asthma.
Researchers here have used sediment from the deep ocean bottom to reconstruct a record of ancient climate that dates back more than the last half-million years. The record, trapped within the top 20 meters (65.6 feet) of a 400-meter (1,312-foot) sediment core drilled in 2005 in the North Atlantic Ocean by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, gives new information about the four glacial cycles...
You've just won a prize. Would you like to find out what it is right away, or wait until later? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says most people are happier waiting.
Three-dimensional, real-time X-ray images may be closer to reality. New work on a process called high-harmonic generation, or HHG. X-ray radiation can be created by focusing an optical laser into atoms of gaseous elements – usually low-electron types such as hydrogen, helium, or...
Major challenges and opportunities will arise in the health sector in the future. Although sophisticated medical technology is already available in health systems in developed countries, further advances are constantly being made. As a result of the addition of medical nanotechnology to existing knowledge of molecular and cellular biology, it seems likely that new, more personalized, more accurate...
The Cardiovascular Research Foundation has announced the results of the largest meta-analysis to date comparing mortality rates for drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents. The study also compared the rates of myocardial infarction and target vessel revascularization.
Geologists have shown that an ancient ice age, once regarded as a brief "blip," in fact lasted for 30 million years.
Autistics are up to 40 percent faster at problem-solving than non-autistics, according to a new study published in the journal Human Brain Mapping. As part of the investigation, participants were asked to complete patterns in the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices -- test that measures hypothesis-testing, problem-solving and learning...
Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up with a revolutionary invention: the index card.
Gene regulatory networks in cell nuclei are similar to cloud computing networks, such as Google or Yahoo!, researchers report in the journal Molecular Systems Biology. The similarity is that each system keeps working despite the failure of individual components, whether they are master genes or computer...