Study: Technique uses well-known dye to watch amyloid plaques in the brain — ...
While amyloid plaques have long been closely associated with mechanisms driving Alzheimer's disease, visualizing how amyloid proteins assemble continues to prove difficult. The...
Study: Researchers explore how the auditory system achieves accurate speech recognition — (Details)
For humans to achieve accurate speech recognition and communicate with one another, the auditory system must recognize distinct categories of sounds -- such...
Study: Artificial womb technology breaks its 4 minute mile — (Details)
A major advancement in pioneering technology based around the use of an artificial womb to save extremely premature babies is being hailed as...
Study: Musical training improves the ability to tune out distractions, and the more training,...
Musical training produces lasting improvements to a cognitive mechanism that helps individuals be more attentive and less likely to be distracted by irrelevant...
Study: Contraceptive jewelry could offer a new family planning approach — (Details)
Family planning for women might one day be as simple as putting on an earring.
A report published recently in the Journal of Controlled...
Study: Ancient Caribbean children helped with grocery shopping in AD 400 — (Details)
Researchers have long thought that snail and clam shells found at Caribbean archaeological sites were evidence of "starvation food" eaten in times when...
Study: Women who work two or more night shifts in one week may have...
Working two or more night shifts in a week may increase a pregnant woman's risk of miscarriage the following week by around a...
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: Engineering cellular function without living cells — (Details)
Genes in living cells are activated -- or not -- by proteins called transcription factors. The mechanisms by which these proteins activate certain...
Study: Ankle exoskeleton fits under clothes for potential broad adoption — (Details)
A new lightweight, low-profile and inexpensive ankle exoskeleton could be widely used among elderly people, those with impaired lower-leg muscle strength and workers...
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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...
