Study: A modified-RNA vaccine elicits protective response in mice to a conserved region of...
A universal flu vaccine that protects people against most influenza strains is one step closer to reality, with a study from the Perelman...
Study: New method grows brain cells from stem cells quickly and efficiently — ...
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a faster method to generate functional brain cells, called astrocytes, from embryonic stem cells. Astrocytes...
Study: The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light — (Details)
You don't focus as well as you think you do.
That's the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from Princeton University and the...
Study: Nanoparticle targets kidney disease for drug delivery — (Details)
Remember the scene in the movie Mission: Impossible when Tom Cruise has to sneak into the vault? He had to do all sorts...
Study: Head and neck positioning affects concussion risk — (Details)
If you're about to run headfirst into something, your reflex might be to tense your neck and stabilize your noggin. But according to...
Study: Ending a 40-year quest, scientists reveal the identity of ‘hearing’ protein — ...
Scientists at Harvard Medical School say they have ended a 40-year-quest for the elusive identity of the sensor protein responsible for hearing and...
Study: Kids connect with robot reading partners — (Details)
Kids learn better with a friend. They're more enthusiastic and understand more if they dig into a subject with a companion. But what...
Study: Newly-sequenced genome sheds light on interactions between ancient hominins — (Details)
Together with their sister group the Neanderthals, Denisovans are the closest extinct relatives of currently living humans. "We knew from previous studies that...
Study: Researchers find a neural ‘auto-correct’ feature we use to process ambiguous sounds —...
Our brains have an "auto-correct" feature that we deploy when re-interpreting ambiguous sounds, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which appear...
Study: When confronted, a single neuron helps a fruit fly change course — ...
In the fruit fly, a single pair of brain neurons command backward locomotion in both larvae and adults, researchers report.
The mapping of descending...
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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...
