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The melting of Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane
The Greenland Ice Sheet emits tons of methane according to a new study, showing that subglacial biological activity impacts the atmosphere far more than...
Water : Japan faces crossroads in battling its aging pipes – the dire decay...
The civil infrastructure in Japan was constructed some time ago, and is showing its age. While continuing with periodic inspections and maintenance, Japan...
Ultima Thule : the snowman has past Pluto
A NASA spacecraft 4 billion miles from Earth yielded its first close-up pictures Wednesday of the most distant celestial object ever explored, depicting what...
New technology to record brain activity at extremely low frequencies : Graphene-based implant
The body of knowledge about the human brain is growing exponentially, but questions big and small remain unanswered.
Researchers have been using electrode arrays...
Dark side of the moon : Chinese spacecraft becomes first ever to touch down
A Chinese lunar rover landed on the far side of the moon on Thursday, in a global first that boosts Beijing's ambitions to become...
Physicists discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor
A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived new...
Radiation doses from CT scans can be reduced by 50% – it depends how...
Large differences in radiation doses used for CT scans are mainly due to how the scanners are used by medical staff rather than differences...
ASD – ADHD : Project EVO – children showed a trend toward improved attention
Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) evaluated a digital medicine tool designed as an investigational treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)...
Researchers explain how a mutation in PCSK9 leads to heart disease
High levels of low-density lipoproteins, parcels of lipids and protein that carry cholesterol, are a leading risk factor for heart disease.
Many cholesterol medications...
There is no compelling evidence to indicate important health benefits of non-sugar sweeteners
There is no compelling evidence to indicate important health benefits of non-sugar sweeteners, and potential harms cannot be ruled out, suggests a review of...
Researchers has identified distinct molecular signatures of glioblastoma in men and women
For decades, scientists have recognized that more males get cancer and die of the disease than females.
This is true for many types of...
ASD : Meta-analysis highlights important challenges in cognitive processing and non-social cognitive domains
The first comprehensive, systematic review and meta-analysis of adults with autism shows that despite having an intact IQ, these adults have medium to large...
Bladder problems : implantable device uses light to treat it
A team of neuroscientists and engineers has developed a tiny, implantable device that has potential to help people with bladder problems bypass the need...
Why do some patients with breast cancer receive chemotherapy before the tumor is removed...
Some patients with breast cancer receive chemotherapy before the tumor is removed with surgery.
This approach, called neoadjuvant therapy, helps to reduce the size...
For the first time that an electronic device can monitor beating heart cells without...
For the first time, engineers have demonstrated an electronic device to monitor beating heart cells without affecting their behavior.
A collaboration between the University...
