Monthly Archives: Gennaio 2018
New study reveals why some people are more creative than others
Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new and useful ideas.
Like intelligence, it can be considered a trait that everyone...
Even without nudging blood pressure up, high-salt diet hobbles the brain
A high-salt diet may spell trouble for the brain—and for mental performance—even if it doesn't push blood pressure into dangerous territory, new research has...
Being bilingual may help autistic children
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) often have a hard time switching gears from one task to another. But being bilingual may actually make...
Novel 3-D printing technique yields high-performance composites
Nature has produced exquisite composite materials—wood, bone, teeth, and shells, for example—that combine light weight and density with desirable mechanical properties such as stiffness,...
Japan : Deep image reconstruction from human brain activity
Making news this month is a study by researchers the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Kyoto University in Japan, having built a...
Unlike Men, Women Have a Remarkable Variety of Orgasmic Experiences
Concordia researchers describe the vast potential for female arousal from multiple sensory inputs.
The nature of a woman’s orgasm has been a source of debate...
Surfers three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant bacteria in guts
Regular surfers and bodyboarders are three times more likely to have antibiotic resistant E. coli in their guts than non-surfers, new research has revealed.
Conducted by the...
Origin of the Muslims of the Americas
Jamaat ul-Fuqra is an Islamist group with about 25 “Islamic villages” across the country that have been historically used for guerrilla training and cult-like...
Blood-vessel-on-a-chip provides insight into new anti-inflammatory drug candidate
One of the most important and fraught processes in the human body is inflammation.
Inflammatory responses to injury or disease are crucial for recruiting the...
Researchers develop a remote-controlled cancer immunotherapy system
A team of researchers has developed an ultrasound-based system that can non-invasively and remotely control genetic processes in live immune T cells so that...
OnePlus denies checkout page hack amid credit card fraud reports
OnePlus, a Shenzhen based Chinese smartphone manufacturer has denied that its checkout page was compromised due to a Magento bug.
The statement from OnePlus came in...
The coming of age of gene therapy: A review of the past and path...
After three decades of hopes tempered by setbacks, gene therapy -- the process of treating a disease by modifying a person's DNA -- is...
New study finds ‘baby brain’ is real, but the cause remains mysterious
So-called "baby brain" refers to increased forgetfulness, inattention, and mental "fogginess" reported by four out of five pregnant women.
These changes in brain function during...
Fibre-rich diet can have a positive influence on chronic inflammatory joint diseases, leading to...
It is well known that healthy eating increases a general sense of wellbeing.
Researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now discovered that a fibre-rich diet...
How the immune system’s key organ regenerates itself
With advances in cancer immunotherapy splashing across headlines, the immune system's powerful cancer assassins—T cells—have become dinner-table conversation.
But hiding in plain sight behind that...
