Day June 23, 2019

We usually think that trauma from war is related to the fact that soldiers have been under constant threat of death. New research shows a slightly different picture. The types of trauma that Norwegian soldiers were exposed to in Afghanistan…

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New technique to monitor evolution of magnetic disturbances from the Aurora Borealis University of Warwick researchers link up over a hundred magnetometers to form a ‘social network’ Magnetometers ‘befriend’ each other when the disturbance propagates to them Space weather results…

Children need protection when using programmable Internet computing devices – and Lancaster University scientists have drawn up new guidelines to help designers build in safeguards. Young people are growing up in a digital world where everyday objects contain sensors and…

Virginia Tech researchers discovered that wheat plants “sneezing” off condensation can vastly impact the spread of spore-borne diseases, such as wheat leaf rust, which can cause crop yield losses of up to 20 percent or more in the United States…

Alexandria, Va., USA – At the 97th General Session Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR), held in conjunction with the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Dental Research (AADR) and the 43rd Annual Meeting of…

San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – New research has found that Caabidiol is active against Gram-positive bacteria, including those responsible for many serious infections (such as Staphyloccocus aureus and Streptococcus pneumoniae), with potency similar to that of established…

San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – Researchers have used whole genome sequencing (WGS) to demonstrate transmission of a single bacterial strain that possessed a carbapenem-resistance gene in a northern California hospital. The gene armed the bacteria with resistance…

San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – Researchers have now shown that patients who are heavily colonized with Candida auris on their skin can shed the fungus and contaminate their surroundings. This finding provides an explanation for the extensive…

San Francisco, CA – June 23, 2019 – Researchers from the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) have discovered bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, living in their kitchen sponges. As the threat of antibiotic resistance increases, bacteriophages, or phages for…