Monthly Archives: Aprile 2018
Researchers Teach Neural Network to Identify a Writer’s Gender
A team of researchers from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute and the Voronezh State University has developed...
Navigating with the sixth sense: Desert ants sense Earth’s magnetic field
Desert ants (Cataglyphis) spend the first weeks of their life exclusively in their dark underground nest.
For around four weeks, they nurse the queen and...
Ex-NSA staffer creates app to notify users of evil maid attack on MacBook
It is a fact that a MacBook cannot be easily hacked and to pull off this incredible feat, the attacker either needs a sophisticated malware or requires physical...
With ‘super gonorrhea’ a threat, many still getting wrong antibiotics
When an unnamed British man recently contracted a form of "super gonorrhea" resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat it, the news spiked...
Brains, eyes, testes: off-limits for transplants?
Since the world's first successful organ transplant in 1954—a kidney—the discipline has advanced to the point where a wounded soldier could have his penis...
Get off the golf cart if you have knee osteoarthritis
From presidents to retirees, more than 17 million people over the age of 50 golf regularly.
Knee osteoarthritis, which causes swelling, pain and difficulty moving...
FDA-approved drugs to treat diabetes and obesity may reduce cocaine relapse and help addicted...
Cocaine and other drugs of abuse hijack the natural reward circuits in the brain. In part, that's why it's so hard to quit using...
Scientists keep pigs’ brains alive for 36 hours
US-based researchers have successfully kept alive the brain cells of decapitated pigs for 36 hours, sparking concerns over the ethics involved in such frontline...
A new report from the CDC discloses 1 in 59 children in 11 states...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 68 children (or 14.7 per 1,000 eight-year-olds) in multiple communities in the...
Three Minute Version of Brain Stimulation Therapy Effective for Hard to Treat Depression
In the largest study of its kind, a three-minute version of a brain stimulation treatment was shown to be just as effective as the...
Multiple Sclerosis Drug Could Reduce Painful Side Effects of Common Cancer Treatment
Researchers from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine have discovered why many multiple myeloma patients experience severe pain when treated with the anticancer...
Researchers report neurons record their activity in gene expression, and the activity record can...
From burning your palm on a hot pan handle to memorizing the name of a new acquaintance, “anytime you experience something, your neurons are...
Infinitely recyclable polymer shows practical properties of plastics
The world fell in love with plastics because they're cheap, convenient, lightweight and long- lasting. For these same reasons, plastics are now trashing the...
Mercury’s crust is thinner than anyone thought
Mercury is small, fast and close to the sun, making the rocky world challenging to visit. Only one probe has ever orbited the planet...
Spoonful of sugar helps infection detection
More than 500,000 devices such as prosthetic valves, pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators are implanted into cardiac patients every year in the United States. While...
