General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out
Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced this neural circuitry back...
Can science writing be automated?
A team of researchers has developed a neural network, a form of artificial intelligence, that can read scientific papers and render a plain-English summary...
New variety of zebra chip disease threatens potato production in southwestern Oregon
Named after the dark stripes that form inside potatoes after they are cut and fried, zebra chip disease is a potentially devastating affliction that...
Does time of day affect the body’s response to exercise?
New research confirms that the circadian clock is an important factor in how the body responds to physical exertion. Based on this work alone,...
Diabetes drug may reverse heart failure
Researchers have demonstrated that the recently developed antidiabetic drug empagliflozin can treat and reverse the progression of heart failure in non-diabetic animal models. Their...
Lasers make magnets behave like fluids
Researchers have discovered how magnets recover after being blasted by a laser. It turns out, they act a bit like oil and water in...
Coincidence helps with quantum measurements
Through randomly selected measurements, physicists can determine the quantum entanglement of many-particle systems. With the newly developed method, quantum simulations can be extended to...
Flies smell through a Gore-Tex system
Scientists have gained important insights into how the nanopores that allow the fruit fly to detect chemicals in the air, and has identified the...
Researchers map sound, response and reward anticipation in mouse brain
Neuroscientists report that two areas of the mouse brain combine representations of what is heard and anticipated, guiding behavior that leads mice to the...
New concept for novel fire extinguisher in space
Researchers have developed a new concept of fire extinguishing, named Vacuum Extinguish Method. VEM is based on the 'reverse' operation of the conventional fire...
