Monthly Archives: Febbraio 2020
Risk of persistent visual side effects in Viagra users
Sildenafil is commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction and is generally regarded as safe with limited side effects.
However, a recent study in Frontiers...
Death by suicide in children has reached a 30-year high in the US
Death by suicide in children has reached a 30-year high in the United States. During middle and high school, 10 to 15% of kids...
Coronavirus – Diarrhea may be a secondary path of transmission
Diarrhea may be a secondary path of transmission for the novel coronavirus, scientists said Friday following the publication of the latest study reporting patients...
Mobile phones influence concentration
As smart phones have become a pervasive part of daily life over the last decade or so, they’ve changed the way people socialize and...
Brain training exercises do not help boost early math learning
Research from the University of Sheffield, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigated why children differ so much in their early maths skills, to try...
People experience a state of euphoria during their final moments of life
“People often look like they are sleeping just after dying, having a neutral facial expression.
But one of my relatives, who had intense pain...
AppStreamer cuts down storage requirements by at least 85% for popular gaming apps
If you resort to deleting apps when your phone's storage space is full, researchers have a solution.
New software "streams" data and code resources to...
New low-cost water source – completely passive solar-powered desalination system
A completely passive solar-powered desalination system developed by researchers at MIT and in China could provide more than 1.5 gallons of fresh drinking water...
Simple fat droplets as key regulators in the complex process of metabolism
In suspense novels, the most unassuming character sometimes turns out to be a mastermind, influencing events without attracting attention.
That same storyline may be...
Hand washing can slow down the spread of infectious diseases
A new study estimates that improving the rates of handwashing by travelers passing through just 10 of the world's leading airports could significantly reduce...
Hippocampus – the neurons involved in Pavlovian learning become more synchronized when a...
The phrase “Pavlov’s dogs” has long evoked images of bells, food and salivating dogs.
Even though this tried-and-true model of repetitive patterns mimics a...
Chromothripsis events are common across many types of cancer
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and EMBL-EBI have carried out the largest analysis across cancer types of the newly discovered mutational phenomenon chromothripsis.
This...
Researchers find a link between loss of the smallest blood vessels in muscle and...
Many health conditions - ranging from disease of particular organs such as heart and lungs, widespread metabolic issues such as diabetes, or following trauma...
Gluten and casein-free diets as a therapeutic approach in autism spectrum disorders have no...
A study by researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Granada (UGR) has analyzed the effects of a gluten-free diet and...
Novelty directly activates the dopamine system and enhances associative learning
Brain scientists led by Sebastian Haesler (NERF, empowered by IMEC, KU Leuven and VIB) have identified a causal mechanism of how novel stimuli promote...
