Epilepsy is a wide-spread neurological disorder that affects around 50 million people worldwide. It is characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures, which are sudden bursts of electrical activity in the brain. There are many different types of seizures, and a person…
When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example. Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the ‘”little brain”‘,…
New Haven, Conn. — When college students learn specific techniques for managing stress and anxiety, their wellbeing improves across a range of measures and leads to better mental health, a new Yale study finds. The research team evaluated three classroom-based…
A material composed of two one-atom-thick layers of carbon has grabbed the attention of physicists worldwide for its intriguing — and potentially exploitable — conductive properties. Dr. Fan Zhang, assistant professor of physics in the School of Natural Sciences and…
Scientists have found that countries with mandatory Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination until at least the year 2000 tended to exhibit slower infection and death rates during the first 30 days of the outbreak of COVID-19 in their country. By applying…
By screening potential monoclonal antibody (mAb)-based drugs solely based on a measure of their colloidal stability, scientists may be able to weed out mAbs that do not respond efficiently in solution early in the drug discovery process, according to a…
IMAGE: Sample sites at river A) Emscher, B) Ennepe and C) Sieg. view more Credit: Vera Zizka DNA or eDNA), for example, river water or, as in the case of the study by the team from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Essen,…
According to recent Gallup polls, socialism is now more popular than capitalism among Democrats and young people, and support for “some form of socialism” among all Americans is at 43% (compared to 25% in 1942). Policies that went unmentioned or…
IMAGE: Chelsea Wood, right, and the team prepare to collect trail cameras, which were deployed to quantify bird biodiversity at each pond. view more Credit: Emily Wood Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals, fishes and birds…
Researchers from The Ohio State University published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that examines whether to focus sharing economy marketing communications on the platform or on the provider. The study, forthcoming in the the Journal of Marketing,…
