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It’s Time to End the Debate About Violence and Video Games
In the wake of the Valentine’s Day shooting at a Broward County, Florida high school, a familiar trope has reemerged:
Often, when a young...
Simple Walking Test May Help Diagnose Dementia
There’s a cause of dementia that can sometimes be reversed, but it’s often not diagnosed because the symptoms are so similar to those of...
Brain Scans Provide Clues For the Development of Pedophilia
Why some adults develop a sexual interest in children is scientifically not yet fully understood.
A research team from the Institute of Sexual Medicine...
2000 Colorado DOT computers infected with SamSam Ransomware
Another day, another ransomware scam – This time, it is the SamSam ransomware that has infected computers system at Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).
According to the...
Artificial eye: Researchers combine metalens with an artificial muscle
Inspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an adaptive metalens,...
Toyota’s magnet lowers reliance on widely used rare earth element
News from Toyota: On Tuesday the car marker announced it has a heat-resistant magnet that uses significantly less neodymium, a rare-earth element—reducing the amount...
Samsung patent talk: Flying display right before your eyes
A display that can fly and be controlled by your eyes: Can the idea fly its way into a product of the future? Think...
Sweet, bitter, fat: New study reveals impact of genetics on how kids snack
Whether your child asks for crackers, cookies or veggies to snack on could be linked to genetics, according to new findings from the Guelph...
Forecasting antibiotic resistance with a weather map of local data
The resistance that infectious microbes have to antibiotics makes it difficult for physicians to confidently select the right drug to treat an infection. And...
New neurons in the adult brain are involved in sensory learning
Although we have known for several years that the adult brain can produce new neurons, many questions about the properties conferred by these adult-born...
Glaucoma study finds brain fights to preserve vision
A team of researchers, led by David Calkins, Ph.D., vice chair and director of Research at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, has made a breakthrough...
The loudness of our thoughts affects how we judge external sounds
The "loudness" of our thoughts—or how we imagine saying something—influences how we judge the loudness of real, external sounds, a team of researchers from...
Add broken DNA repair to the list of inherited colorectal cancer risk factors
An analysis of nearly 3,800 colorectal cancer patients—the largest germline risk study for this cancer to date—reveals opportunities for improved risk screening and, possibly,...
Researchers use a molecular Trojan horse to deliver chemotherapeutic drug to cancer cells
A research team at the University of California, Riverside has discovered a way for chemotherapy drug paclitaxel to target migrating, or circulating, cancer cells,...
New device for low-cost single-cell analysis identifies fibroblast subtypes in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Single-cell analysis holds enormous potential to study how individual cells influence disease and respond to treatment, but the lack of cost-effective and user-friendly instrumentation...
