Sleep Loss Tied to Changes of the Gut Microbiota in Humans
Results from a new clinical study conducted at Uppsala University suggest that curtailing sleep alters the abundance of bacterial gut species that have previously been linked to compromised human metabolic health. The new article is published in the ...
– Uppsala University
Molecular Metabolism.
Can a Brain-Computer Interface Convert Your Thoughts to Text?
Recent research shows brain-to-text device capable of decoding speech from brain signals...
– Frontiers
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
UCI and NASA Document Accelerated Glacier Melting in West Antarctica
Two new studies by researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA have found the fastest ongoing rates of glacier retreat ever observed in West Antarctica and offer an unprecedented look at ice melting on the floating undersides of glac...
– University of California, Irvine
Nature Communications, Oct-2016
Male Birth Control Shots Prevent Pregnancy
Men can take birth control shots to prevent pregnancy in their female partners, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. ...
– Endocrine Society
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Embargo expired on 27-Oct-2016 at 14:00 ET
Many Kids Not Ready for Kindergarten
Many children are still learning to control their behavior as they enter kindergarten and may need educational support to develop that critical skill, indicates one of the most conclusive studies to date of early childhood self-regulation....
– Michigan State University
Developmental Psychology
Researchers Discover Way to Induce Visual Hallucinations
Visual hallucinations ... everyone has heard of them, and many people have experienced the sensation of "seeing" something that isn't there. But studying the phenomenon of hallucinations is difficult: they are irregular, transitory, and highly person...
– University of Pittsburgh
eLife
How Hooded Seals Are Transferring Contaminants to Their Pups
Environmental contaminants such as perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) can be transferred from mother to offspring through the placenta and mother’s milk, exposing the young mammal before and after birth....
– Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Faced With Ambivalence, Powerful People Are Less Decisive
Although powerful people often tend to decide and act quickly, they become more indecisive than others when the decisions are toughest to make, a new study suggests. The study is published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Ps...
– Association for Psychological Science
Psychological Science
Indirect Effects of Rising CO2 Levels on Ecosystems More Important Than Previously Thought
The indirect effects of rising CO2 levels, such as changes in soil moisture and plant structure, can have a bigger impact on ecosystems than previously thought. Understanding their importance, in comparison to the direct effects, will improve our...
– University of Southampton
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1605036113
Antibody Breaks Leukemia’s Hold, Providing New Therapeutic Approach
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive cancer known for drug resistance and relapse. In an effort to uncover new treatment strategies, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center discovered tha...
– University of California San Diego Health Sciences
Cancer Cell
High Quality Evidence Suggests Vitamin D Can Reduce Asthma Attacks
A recent Cochrane Review has found evidence from randomised trials, that taking an oral vitamin D supplement in addition to standard asthma medication is likely to reduce severe asthma attacks....
– Wiley
Cochrane Review
How AIDS Conquered North America
Researchers were able to restore HIV genomes from serum samples more than 40 years old, enabling them to reconstruct the origins of the AIDS pandemic in unprecedented detail...
– University of Arizona
Nature
Researchers Use Video Gamelike Test to Study Learning and Recovery in Stroke Patients
A robotic arm and a virtual game were essential tools in a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine. The study results suggest that while training doesn't change neurological repair in chronic stroke patients, it can indeed help such pati...
– Johns Hopkins Medicine
Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair
Extreme Cold Winters Fueled by Jet Stream and Climate Change
Scientists have agreed for the first time that recent severe cold winter weather in the UK and US may have been influenced by climate change in the Arctic, according to a new study....
– University of Sheffield
Nature Climate Change
Team Discovers Rare Triple Star System Using ALMA
A rare triple-star system surrounded by a disk with a spiral structure has been discovered by a University of Oklahoma-led research team....
– University of Oklahoma
Nature
Embargo expired on 26-Oct-2016 at 13:00 ET
Physicists Make It Possible to 3-D Print Your Own Baby Universe
Researchers have created a 3D printed cosmic microwave background - a map of the oldest light in the universe - and provided the files for download....
– Imperial College London
European Journal of Physics
No comments:
Post a Comment