IMAGE: This example of Aphanorrhegma serratum, a species endemic to eastern North America (and found on UConn’s main campus) shows both stages of the moss life cycle, with the circular structures… view more Credit: Bernard Goffinet/UConn Photo In a Nature Communications…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Apr. 3, 2019) — When you type the phrase “victim of medical error” into your search engine, you expect to see scores of stories and images featuring patients and families whose lives have been devastated by a healthcare…
Over the past decade, wind power production in the U.S. has tripled, becoming the largest source of renewable energy in the country, the American Wind Energy Association has reported. There are more than 56,800 wind turbines in 41 states and…
Over the past quarter-century, researchers have published hundreds of studies suggesting a small set of particular genes or gene-variants plays a substantial role in boosting susceptibility to depression. Such papers fueled hopes that clinicians could soon use genetic testing to…
IMAGE: David Nerenz, Ph.D., director emeritus of Henry Ford’s Center for Policy and Health Services Research and the study’s lead author. view more Credit: Henry Ford Health System DETROIT – Allowing for more quality measures in the federal government’s Quality Star…
IMAGE: Bharath Babu Nunna, a recent NJIT Ph.D. graduate, worked to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced biochip to detect cancers, malaria and viral diseases such as pneumonia early in their progression with a… view more Credit: NJIT The difficulty in spotting minute amounts…
IMAGE: Sugarcane root aerenchyma seen under a microscope. Description of genes involved in sugarcane root cell separation could lead to the development of varieties with softened cell walls similar to those… view more Credit: Débora Chaves Coelho Leite During the period…
In “Conspicuous Plumage Does Not Increase Predation Risk: A Continent-Wide Test Using Model Songbirds,” published in the American Naturalist, Kristal E. Cain examines the factors that drive the predation levels of Australia’s fairy wrens. After measuring attack rates on both…
If your attention gets diverted in different directions by smartphones and other digital devices, take note: Media multitasking has now been linked to obesity. New research from Rice University indicates that mindless switching between digital devices is associated with increased…
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Efforts to curtail the flow of cocaine into the United States from South America have made drug trafficking operations more widespread and harder to eradicate, according to new research published this week in Proceedings of the National…
