Techno Man
When the cardiology patient ends up in the oncology care ward
If you end up needing to go to the hospital, often times you're hoping to get a bed without having to wait hours, but...
Nanoscale ‘glass’ bottles could enable targeted drug delivery
Tiny silica bottles filled with medicine and a special temperature-sensitive material could be used for drug delivery to kill malignant cells only in certain...
Moon glows brighter than sun in images from NASA’s Fermi
If our eyes could see gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen...
Climate change ‘disrupts’ local plant diversity, study reveals
Researchers have discovered that the numbers of plant species recorded by botanists have increased in locations where the climate has changed most rapidly, and...
Age-related illness risk for people living with HIV
The first large-scale review into the health outcomes of people living with HIV has found that this group has an increased risk of contracting...
Tweaked CRISPR in neurons gives scientists new power to probe brain diseases
Researchers describe a technique that uses a special version of CRISPR to systematically alter the activity of genes in human neurons generated from stem...
New study shows how autism can be measured through a non-verbal marker
Researchers have identified a non-verbal, neural marker of autism. This marker shows that individuals with autism are slower to dampen neural activity in response...
Predictability of parent interaction positively influences child’s development
Scientists have investigated the impact of the predictability of parent interaction on a child's development. The study showed that a higher predictability of the...
How buildings can cut 80 percent of their carbon emissions by 2050
Energy use in buildings -- from heating and cooling your home to keeping the lights on in the office -- is responsible for over...
Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet
A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago, could explain surprising readings...