Monthly Archives: Novembre 2018
Some brain-injured people left with disorders of consciousness nevertheless show normal brain responses to...
Some brain-injured people left with disorders of consciousness—unable to communicate or respond, such as people in a coma—nevertheless show normal brain responses to spoken...
Researchers have found that imagining a sound can be just as effective in breaking...
Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the University of Colorado, Boulder, have found that imagining a sound can be...
Researchers discovered how Hantaviruses infect lung cells
Hantaviruses cause severe and sometimes fatal respiratory infections, but how they infect lung cells has been a mystery.
In today's issue of Nature, an international...
Making good decisions typically involves gathering information over at least several seconds
Making good decisions typically involves gathering information over at least several seconds, much longer than the time that individual brain cells take to process...
Sweetened drinks pose a greater risk of type 2 diabetes than most other foods...
Sweetened drinks pose a greater risk of type 2 diabetes than most other foods containing fructose, a naturally occurring sugar, finds an evidence review...
Women who work intermittent night shifts and do not follow a healthy lifestyle face...
Women who work intermittent night shifts and do not follow a healthy lifestyle face an especially high risk of type 2 diabetes, suggests a...
At a mere five months of age, babies seemingly have the ability to recognize...
At a mere five months of age, babies seemingly have the ability to recognize very complex grammatical structures.
That is what a research team...
When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak...
When a pathogen enters their colony, ants change their behavior to avoid the outbreak of disease. In this way, they protect the queen, brood...
Polish researchers claim their find overturns the notion that the only giant plant-eaters at...
A giant, plant-eating creature with a beak-like mouth and reptilian features may have roamed the Earth during the late Triassic period more than 200...
Strains of the bacterium Enterobacter have been identified on the International Space Station (ISS)
Strains of the bacterium Enterobacter, similar to newly found opportunistic infectious organisms seen in a few hospital settings, have been identified on the International...
Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale
Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the...
A program to reduce Earth’s heat capture by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere from...
A program to reduce Earth's heat capture by injecting aerosols into the atmosphere from high-altitude aircraft is possible, but unreasonably costly with current technology,...
Ford filed a patent application for an odor-removal process
Phoebe Wall Howard in Detroit Free Press reported that Ford filed a patent application for an odor-removal process that gets rid of new-car smells...
The gap between the life expectancy of the richest and poorest is increasing...
The gap between the life expectancy of the richest and poorest sectors of society in England is increasing, according to new research from Imperial...
Researchers in Israel have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting...
Researchers in Israel have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting stromal cells originally formed in the bone marrow.
The study, which...
