Study: Faster, cheaper tests for myopia in sight
The world’s most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which causes damage to the eye and even blindness, just got easier to assess.
Progressive...
Study: To see what’s right in front of you, your brain may need some...
Life-changing moments are also brain-changing moments: everything from a first kiss to a last goodbye modifies cells within the skull. The capacity to...
Study: Combined platform provides safe, effective passage for therapies treating cancer and other diseases,...
Delivering an effective therapeutic payload to specific target cells with few adverse effects is considered by many to be the holy grail of...
Study: Using drones to simplify film animation — (Details)
Drones are going to change the film industry in a major way. Tobias Nägeli, for one, is sure of that. The computer scientist,...
Study: Summing a constant may help to detect synchronized brain activity — (Details)
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology found a simple, yet effective, way to improve how synchronization is measured in chaotic systems. The technique...
Study: Nanocomposites replace animal tissue in new valve design — (Details)
Researchers at UBC have created the first-ever nanocomposite biomaterial heart-valve developed to reduce or eliminate complications related to heart transplants.
By using a newly...
Study: Discovery could inform future studies related to spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and...
Nerve cells, or neurons -- specifically the "workhorse cells" involved in walking, breathing and chewing -- can adjust to changes in the body,...
Study: How returning to a prior context briefly heightens memory recall — (Details)
Whether it's the pleasant experience of returning to one's childhood home over the holidays or the unease of revisiting a site that proved...
Study: A model for describing the hydrodynamics of crowds — (Details)
Precise simulations of the movement and behavior of crowds can be vital to the production of digital sequences or the creation of large...
Study: Psychologists solve mystery of songbird learning — (Details)
Scientists rely on animal models to gain insight into how humans learn language, but it turns out that one of their favorite models,...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
