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December 2019

  1. The “Scientific World-view” Needs an Update
  2. Injection of Virus-Delivered Gene Silencer Blocks ALS Degeneration, Saves Motor Function
  3. Objective Subtle Cognitive Difficulties Predict Amyloid Accumulation and Neurodegeneration
  4. Combining neurologic and blood pressure drugs cuts breast tumor development in mice
  5. Consuming CO2
  6. Mouse pups born from eggs derived from the granulosa cells that surround oocytes
  7. Large scale feasts at ancient capital of Ulster drew crowds from across Iron Age Ireland
  8. New Aging Clock based on Proteins in the Blood
  9. For CRISPR, tweaking DNA fragments before inserting yields highest efficiency rates yet
  10. Fossil research unveils new turtle species and hints at intercontinental migrations
  11. People think marketing and political campaigns use psychology to influence their behaviors
  12. Single-molecule detection of cancer markers brings liquid biopsy closer to clinic
  13. The Inglorious Dangers of Space
  14. In Some Children with Autism, Social and Visua” Neural Circuits Don’t Quite Connect
  15. Engineers developing machine-learning tools to quickly, cheaply design better solar cells
  16. New study seeks to improve the way dentists measure children’s pain during appointments
  17. In Ancient Scottish Tree Rings, a Cautionary Tale on Climate, Politics and Survival
  18. Two in one: Fossil shells reveal both global mercury contamination and warming when dinosaurs perished
  19. Black teens face racial discrimination multiple times daily, suffer depressive symptoms
  20. Heart-healthy diets are naturally low in dietary cholesterol and can help to reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke
  21. Air pollution is breaking our hearts: Human and marine health is affected in similar ways
  22. Traces in the Fog
  23. Scientists eager to explain brain rhythm boost’s broad impact in Alzheimer’s models
  24. Perinatal exposure to flame retardant alters epigenome, predisposing metabolic disease
  25. Saliva test shows promise for earlier and easier detection of mouth and throat cancer
  26. Comprehensive background check policies effective in Oregon but not in Washington
  27. Climate cycles and insect pests drive migration timing of reindeer’s North American cousin
  28. Breast cancer cells swallow a ‘free lunch’ of dietary fat particles from the bloodstream
  29. Zika vaccine protects both mom and fetus, but mom needs a higher dose when pregnant
  30. Teams of Microbes Are at Work in Our Bodies. Researchers Have Figured Out What They’re up to.
  31. Engineered Water Nanostructures (EWNS): A Novel Nanotechnology Based Method for Hand Hygiene
  32. Modifier Gene May Explain Why Some with Cystic Fibrosis are Less Prone to Infection
  33. Reorganizing a computer chip: Transistors can now both process and store information
  34. The ‘slow earthquakes’ that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones
  35. In surprise breakthrough, scientists create quantum states in everyday electronics
  36. New ultra-miniaturized microendoscope produces higher-quality images at a fraction of the size
  37. Warming Clouds
  38. New tool for rapidly analyzing CRISPR edits reveals frequent production of unintended edits
  39. Microplastics a million times more abundant in the ocean than previously thought
  40. Sales of recreational marijuana in Denver found to increase some nonviolent crime
  41. Forensic scientist uses experiences decoding murder evidence as inspiration for first crime novel
  42. New research reveals how antiretroviral drugs may damage the hearts of infants exposed to HIV but uninfected
  43. On-site pods give visitors first-hand look at air pollution, climate change effects at COP25
  44. Study shows link between precipitation, climate zone and invasive cancer rates in the US
  45. How ancient microbes created massive ore deposits, set the stage for early life on Earth
  46. Nobel prize winner: Oxygen regulation discoveries are starting to lead to new anaemia, cancer drugs

November 2019

  1. Hefty economic costs, new hospital admissions causes linked to daily PM2.5 exposure
  2. Bitcoin’s Shifting Footprint
  3. Researchers get ‘glimpse into a human mind’ as it makes choices in groups, social media
  4. Researchers create ‘smart’ surfaces to help blood-vessel grafts knit better, more safely
  5. Artificial intelligence-based algorithm for intensive care of traumatic brain injury
  6. Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death
  7. Babies may see more in womb than we thoughts
  8. Socioeconomic status in the U.S. harder to change than any time in past 150 years
  9. Coastal fog linked to high levels of mercury found in mountain lions, study finds
  10. Metallic Reefs
  11. Transplanting human nerve cells into a mouse brain reveals how they wire into brain circuits
  12. Two million-year-old ice cores provide first direct observations of an ancient climate
  13. In Down Syndrome Model, Scientists Reverse Intellectual Deficits with Drugs
  14. Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers
  15. Experimental HIV vaccine successfully elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies to the virus
  16. Little-known protein appears to play important role in obesity and metabolic disease
  17. A key to the opioid crisis may be knowing why some brains are more easily addicted
  18. Among transgender children, gender identity as strong as in cisgender children, study shows
  19. T-box structure in bacteria may be target for new antibiotics
  20. Exposure to HIV drug in the womb may increase risk of microcephaly, developmental delays in children
  21. Omega-3 shows protection against heart disease-related death, without prostate cancer risk
  22. RAND Corp: Opening Medicare to Americans aged 50 to 64 would cut their insurance costs
  23. Stents, bypass surgery show no benefit in heart disease mortality rates among stable patients
  24. Plastic Pearls
  25. Pulsed Yamanaka Factors Set Back Epigenic Age
  26. Researchers Halt Spread of Breast Cancer by Blocking Metastasis-Promoting Enzyme
  27. Flame-Retardant Exposure Increases Anxiety, Affects Social Behaviors in Prairie Vole
  28. Pinning down consciousness could improve mental health, brain disorder treatments
  29. Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development
  30. Study of African animals illuminates links between environment, diet and gut microbiome
  31. New study suggests ‘Pac-Man-like’ mergers could explain massive, spinning black holes
  32. Scientists Have Created Fake Rhino Horn. Could It Curb the Illegal Wildlife Trade?
  33. Most Comprehensive Study of Genetic, Sudden-Death Heart Condition Posts First Results
  34. Unlikely gathering of scientists generates extraordinary research team to create the fat free cell
  35. A Game-Changing Test for Prion, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s Diseases is on the Horizon
  36. Landmark national trial to examine how exercise affects your body — down to your molecules
  37. Secreted Shiptracks
  38. Blood cancers: New generation stem cell transplant significantly reduces complications for patients
  39. Study challenges decades-old patient eligibility criteria for weight-loss surgery
  40. Paid sick leave and flextime benefits result in significantly more retirement savings
  41. High waist circumference associated with elevated risk of obesity-related dementia
  42. Researchers identify certain gut bacteria that may be involved in causing bowel cancer
  43. ‘We’ve found dozens of potentially habitable planets – now we need to study them in detail’
  44. ‘We’ve found thousands of potentially habitable planets – now we need to study them in detail’
  45. A Massacre in Mercury
  46. Researchers discover antibiotic-resistant genes in recycled Southern California wastewater
  47. UCI data scientists use geometric concept to spot strong, weak points in neural networks

October 2019

  1. Study suggests acetaminophen exposure in pregnancy linked to higher risk of ADHD, autism
  2. Name that tune: Brain takes just 100 to 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music
  3. Scientist creates mutant form of DNA repair protein to better understand its role in preventing cancer
  4. Telomeres: The Longer the Better
  5. Parkinson’s disease: Stimulation of brain, feet may help people overcome freezing episodes
  6. Women surgical residents suffer more mistreatment leading to burnout and suicidal thoughts
  7. US-born residents more than five times likely to use prescription opioids than new immigrants
  8. Natural Fragmentation
  9. Physicists simulate period that kickstarted Big Bang in the universe’s first fractions of a second
  10. Interview with Josh Mitteldorf
  11. Gut instincts: Researchers discover first clues on how gut health influences brain health
  12. Acquisitions by for-profit dialysis companies hurt patient health, survival and transplant rates
  13. Catastrophic events carry forests of trees thousands of miles to a burial at sea
  14. Study shoots down hopes that metformin might help strength training seniors build more muscle
  15. Why people’s misperceptions about climate change, vaccinations are so hard to shake
  16. Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, study finds
  17. Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old street in Jerusalem built by Pontius Pilate
  18. The Disease of Deforestation
  19. Increase health benefits of exercise by working out before breakfast — new research
  20. Chemists devise efficient synthesis of ginkgo tree compound that could be used as a ‘green’ insecticide
  21. Red wine-like molecule when added to gene therapy, may enable faster, more effective treatments
  22. Treatment of metabolic dysfunction could be a potential therapy for Alzheimer’s disease
  23. Methylation Clocks and True Biological Age
  24. Children are more likely to have higher blood pressure by age six if their mother used snus during pregnancy
  25. US green economy worth $1.3 trillion per year, but new policies needed to maintain growth
  26. Clemson researcher developing perennial grasses that could reduce water use and be fuel source
  27. Princeton’s new supercomputer, Traverse, to accelerate scientific discovery in fusion research
  28. New findings about how a human egg matures may help prevent infertility and birth defects
  29. Researchers Rediscover Fast-acting German Insecticide Lost in the Aftermath of WWII
  30. Science, Scientism, and Stephen Pinker
  31. Degrading Terrains
  32. Blood test method may predict amyloid in brain, potentially indicating Alzheimer’s
  33. Researchers find superconducting material that could someday power quantum computers
  34. Scientists speed up the evolution of yeast to create tastier and healthier alcohol
  35. Black offenders more likely to be arrested than white offenders when committing violent crime together
  36. New research raises important questions on how mental illness is currently diagnosed
  37. Researchers use game theory to successfully identify bacterial antibiotic resistance
  38. Study confirms serious health problems, high trauma rates among unsheltered people in U.S.
  39. MIT launches digital content library for workforce learning on emerging technologies
  40. Large study reveals PTSD has strong genetic component like other psychiatric disorders
  41. Ancient Maya Canals and Fields Show Early and Extensive Impacts on Tropical Forests
  42. Large, long-term study find link between eating mushrooms and a lower risk of prostate cancer
  43. Antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater samples in Southern California
  44. Collapsing Birds
  45. Seagrass meadows harbor wildlife for centuries, highlighting need for conservation
  46. Printed Electronics Open Way for Electrified Tattoos and Personalized Biosensors
  47. Machine Learning Is Providing New Insights When the Biology Is Too Complex for Traditional Research
  48. Chair yoga more effective than music therapy in older adults with advanced dementia
  49. NIH researchers create new viral vector for improved gene therapy in sickle cell disease
  50. Researchers Make it Possible for Ultrasound to Reveal Gene Expression in the Body
  51. Monthly Phone Check-In May Mean Less Depression for Families of Patients with Dementia
  52. In major meta-analysis of clinical trials, omega-3 fish oil supplements linked with lower cardiovascular disease risk

September 2019

  1. Expanding Medicaid means chronic health problems get found & health improves, study finds
  2. Research provides new view of the critical role of plankton in marine carbon storage
  3. Better understanding sensory perception could help people with autism and dyslexia
  4. Rising Marshes
  5. Why viruses like Herpes and Zika will need to be reclassified, and its biotech impact
  6. The Complex Relationship Between Alcohol and Pain
  7. ‘I would like people to panic’ – Top scientist unveils equation showing world in climate emergency
  8. In a Close Race, the Less Popular Candidate Has a 45% Chance of Becoming President
  9. Better samples, better science: New study explores integrity of research specimens
  10. Visible from outer space, Detroit’s unofficial pathways could play important role in land redevelopment
  11. Impostor syndrome is more common than you think; Study finds best way to cope with it
  12. Today’s obesity epidemic may have been caused by childhood sugar intake decades ago
  13. Study confirms Monterey Bay Aquarium surrogate-reared sea otters helped restore threatened population
  14. Natural Building Blocks
  15. Scientists identify a personality feature that could predict how often you exercise
  16. Suntanner, heal thyself: Exosome therapy may enable better repair of sun, age-damaged skin
  17. Researchers ID Compound That Could Play A Novel Role In Halting Pancreatic Cancer Progression
  18. Two short strings of amino acids could pave the way to new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease
  19. ‘Death Star’ bacterial structures that inject proteins can be tapped to deliver drugs
  20. Stroke patients recuperating with strangely shaped shoe
  21. Scaling the Alzheimer’s Cure
  22. Algorithm claims 90% success distinguishing cyberbullies from normal Twitter users
  23. Violent video games blamed more often for school shootings by white perpetrators
  24. Physicians report high refusal rates for the HPV vaccine and need for improvement
  25. Treatment for chronic neuropathic pain gets to the brain via a novel route, without surgery
  26. Suffocating Salamanders
  27. ‘Soft Tactile Logic’ Tech Distributes Decision-Making Throughout Stretchable Material
  28. Researchers discover how to reprogram cells, potentially unlocking new treatments
  29. Scientists propose new approach to Alzheimer’s research to address environmental risks
  30. Abnormal gut bugs tied to worse cognitive performance in vets with PTSD and cirrhosis
  31. ‘Ringing’ black hole validates Einstein’s general relativity 10 years ahead of schedule
  32. Deepwater Horizon oil buried in Gulf Coast beaches could take more than 30 years to biodegrade
  33. Is treatment forever? Success of gene therapy for inherited blindness depends on timing
  34. High Blood Pressure in Pregnant Women Has Increased by More Than 13-Fold Since 1970
  35. Government housing voucher program effectively reduces homeless veteran population
  36. Tiny capsules packed with gene-editing tools offer alternative to viral delivery of gene therapy
  37. One-third of young children admitted to intensive care for sepsis show PTSD symptoms years later
  38. Deep magnet stimulation shown to improve symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder
  39. ‘They are already citizens’: What will it take to bring Europe’s undocumented out of the shadows?
  40. 1st Age Reversal Results—Is it HGH or Something Else?
  41. Falling Ice
  42. Public action and ‘fundamental social change’ needed to reverse biodiversity decline
  43. Research reveals new plan to maximize rideshare availability by routing empty cars
  44. Implants could offer better way to treat Alzheimer’, PTSD, control prosthetics, or make us smarter
  45. Taxing sweetened drinks by the amount of sugar could cut obesity and boost economic gains
  46. News consumers differ widely in their preferences for negative or positive content
  47. Poor Oral Health Linked to Cognitive Decline, Perceived Stress, Rutgers Studies Find
  48. Vintage film shows Thwaites Glacier ice shelf melting faster than previously observed
  49. Incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in modern day society: Regulating the quality of TCM medicinal herbs

August 2019

  1. Creation of new brain cells plays an underappreciated role in Alzheimer’s disease
  2. Tolerating Distress
  3. Carolina scientists show how vaping induces reactions in lungs that can lead to disease
  4. Researchers suggest seaweed farming could be a versatile tool in the effort to mitigate climate change
  5. New artifacts suggest first people arrived in North America earlier than previously thought
  6. The Chemistry of Art: Scientists Explore Aged Paint in Microscopic Detail to Inform Preservation Efforts
  7. Scientist identifies cone snail’s strike as one of the quickest in the animal kingdom
  8. Blocking specific protein could provide new treatment for deadly form of prostate cancer
  9. ‘Mental rigidity’ at root of intense political partisanship on both left and right
  10. Sunscreen from a nut shell: Synthesis of UV absorbers from cashew nut shell liquid
  11. Giving trauma patients blood pressure stabilizing hormone cuts transfusions by half
  12. Baby Giraffes Hide in Bushes from Natural Predators but Have a Mixed Relationship With People
  13. Waist size, not body mass index, may be more predictive of coronary artery disease
  14. Gold Nanoparticles Used in Photothermal Therapy Shown to be Safe and Effective Treatment for Prostate Cancer
  15. Artificial intelligence could use EKG data to measure patient’s overall health status
  16. Augmented reality glasses may help people with low vision better navigate their environment
  17. Economists Find First Link Between Early Childhood Exposure to Air Pollution and Later-Life Arthritis
  18. Suicide and self-harm risk is nearly triple in people with restless leg syndrome
  19. Successful egg harvest breaks new ground in saving the northern white rhinoceros
  20. Stellar Snow: Poetry Friday
  21. Scorpion Toxin That Targets ‘Wasabi Receptor’ May Help Solve Mystery of Chronic Pain
  22. Research Brief: Study suggests body dissatisfaction begins before adolescence, remains constant into adulthood
  23. Carriers of Alzheimer’s genetic marker have greater difficulty harnessing past knowledge
  24. Magnets are being used to extract algal molecules for the beauty, bioplastics industries
  25. Link between brain immune cells microglia and Alzheimer’s disease development identified
  26. Repeated semen exposure promotes host resistance to infection in preclinical HIV model
  27. Insight into cells’ autophagy (‘self-eating’) process could pave way for new dementia treatments
  28. Study confirms cannabis flower is an effective mid-level analgesic medication for pain treatment
  29. When will we observe significant changes in the ocean due to climate change? New study offers road map
  30. Rare study of Earth-sized planet uses technique pioneered by Vanderbilt professor
  31. Depression, cannabis use and binge drinking increase the risk of relapse among former smokers
  32. Biochemists discover new insights into what may go awry in brains of Alzheimer’s patients
  33. Prescription omega-3 fatty acid medications effectively lower high triglycerides
  34. Climate change to shrink economies of rich, poor, hot and cold countries alike unless Paris Agreement holds
  35. The Cost of Shale
  36. New hippocampal neurons continue to form in older adults, including those with MCI, Alzheimer’s
  37. Mode of delivery at birth may play key role in shaping the child’s skin microbiome
  38. AI tool characterizes a song’s genre & provides insights regarding perception music
  39. Aspirin may help some breast cancer survivors, but changes in DNA may mean harm for others
  40. Environmental Death
  41. More than 100 years of Arctic sea ice volume reconstructed with help from historic ships’ logbooks
  42. One cell at a time, researchers create a blueprint of liver cells in health and disease
  43. Researchers uncover 2.5 billion years of continents breaking up, getting back together
  44. Forget ‘Obamageddon’, ‘Prepping’ is now part of mainstream American politics and culture
  45. Police violence a leading cause of death among specific U.S. groups, ‘sobering’ study finds
  46. In the future, this electricity-free tech could help cool buildings in metro areas
  47. Incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in modern day society: over-the-counter supplement and TCM formulae
  48. Our Elephant Graveyard

July 2019

  1. Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition
  2. Expectant mothers can mitigate the impact of marijuana on baby’s brain development
  3. Analysis reveals economic cost of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia are ‘tip of the iceberg’
  4. Rejuvenation at the Cell Level
  5. Study examines how picture books introduce kids to politics, portray leaders, issues, democracy
  6. Incorporating Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in modern day society: thoughts of a fellow molecular biologist
  7. Rising Infection
  8. Monarch butterflies rely on temperature-sensitive internal timer while overwintering
  9. ‘Terminators’ on the Sun trigger plasma tsunamis and the start of new solar cycles
  10. Protein patterns that look like flowers, trees, snowflakes could help engineer water filters, human tissues
  11. Brain protein mutation from child with autism causes autism-like behavioral change in mice
  12. Contaminated Land
  13. First programmable memristor computer aims to bring AI processing down from the cloud
  14. Some Assembly Required: Scientists Piece Together the Largest U.S.-Based Dark Matter Experiment
  15. Green fertiliser made from cow dung and chicken feathers could transform big agriculture
  16. Ultrasound-assisted optical imaging could replace endoscopy in breakthrough discovery
  17. Predators’ fear of humans ripples through wildlife communities, emboldening rodents
  18. Rugby-style tackling may have lower force of impact than football-style tackling
  19. Researchers build transistor-like gate for quantum information processing — with qudits
  20. Slug, a stem cell regulator, keeps breast cells healthy by promoting repair of DNA damage
  21. Money in Aging Research, Part II
  22. Differences in MS patients’ cerebrospinal fluid may be key to drugs that halt progression
  23. Daylight Transmission
  24. For malnourished children, new therapeutic food boosts gut microbes, healthy development
  25. New virus found in one-third of all countries may have coevolved with human lineage
  26. Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planets
  27. Stanford study: Foreign policy to restrict abortion funding results in more abortions:
  28. Wakanda forever! Scientists describe new species of ‘twilight zone’ fish from Africa
  29. Lack of crop diversity and increasing dependence on pollinators may threaten food security
  30. Light therapy could replace opioids as main treatment for cancer treatment mouth ulcers
  31. Quitting alcohol may improve mental well-being, health-related quality of life
  32. Growing Dark in the Cold
  33. Area for restoring trees far greater than imagined and ‘best climate change solution available’
  34. With Little Training, Machine-Learning Algorithms Can Uncover Hidden Scientific Knowledge
  35. Methane vanishing on Mars: Danish researchers propose new mechanism as an explanation
  36. In a picture: Filming the immune system in action – Prof. Georg Fantner 02 July 2019
  37. Money in Aging Research, Part I
  38. Students chowing down tuna in dining halls are unaware of mercury exposure risks
  39. High doses of 60 plus-year-old chemo drug found to spur immune system attack on lymphoma

June 2019

  1. The Dance of the Dung Beetle
  2. Technology allows researchers to see patients’ real-time pain while in the clinic
  3. Toxic substances found in the glass and decoration of alcoholic beverage bottles
  4. Researchers rank foods on the basis of nutritional value and long-term sustainability
  5. Women Face More Cognitive Issues After Brain Tumor Radiation Women Face More Cognitive Issues After Brain Tumor Radiation
  6. How quantum technology could revolutionise the detection and treatment of diseases
  7. Most air-friendly of all outdoor sports? Golf. It doesn’t get any greener than this
  8. Deep-sea Tremors
  9. Phenols in cocoa bean shells may reverse obesity-related problems in mouse cells
  10. Women More Likely To Face Long-Term Impairment After Childhood Brain Tumor Radiation
  11. An Ounce of Prevention: Preoperative Management of Inflammation May Stave Off Cancer Recurrences
  12. Farm-like indoor microbiota may protect children from asthma also in urban homes
  13. The brain consumes half of a child’s energy — and that could matter for weight gain
  14. Jellyfish researchers want you to start thinking about these creatures for your next meal
  15. Handgun licensing more effective at reducing gun deaths than background checks alone
  16. Vagus nerve stimulation study shows significant reduction in rheumatoid arthritis symptoms
  17. A Thawing Habitat
  18. Low vitamin K levels linked to mobility limitation and disability in older adults
  19. Red blood cell donor pregnancy history not linked to higher mortality in transfusion recipients
  20. Stanford-led study investigates how much climate change affects the risk of armed conflict
  21. Ancient air bubbles answer question about ozone levels after Industrial Revolution
  22. Night owls can ‘retrain’ their body clocks to improve mental well-being and performance
  23. Long-acting contraception after childbirth could help teens avoid short-interval pregnancies
  24. Bewildered Blooms
  25. Fussy, hungry, or even in pain? Scientists create an AI tool to tell babies’ cries apart
  26. Metal Foam Stops .50 Caliber Rounds As Well As Steel – At Less Than Half the Weight
  27. Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system
  28. Einstein Letters on ‘Reality Problem’ in Quantum Physics & EPR on View at Christie’s
  29. Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives

May 2019

  1. Glowing Green
  2. Certain antidepressants could provide treatment for multiple infectious diseases
  3. Children who nap are happier, excel academically, and have fewer behavioral problems
  4. The message that addiction is a disease makes substance users less likely to seek help
  5. ‘Mindreading’ neurons capable of having expectations about the behavior of the others
  6. New neurons form in the brain into tenth decade of life, even in people with Alzheimer’s
  7. Nerve stimulation could provide new treatment option for most common type of stroke
  8. A Scavenging Song
  9. Belief in the ‘prosperity gospel’ does not turn people into successful entrepreneurs
  10. New opioid speeds up recovery without increasing pain sensitivity or risk of chronic pain
  11. Integrated stepped alcohol treatment for people in HIV care improves both HIV and alcohol outcomes
  12. People in higher social class have an exaggerated belief that they are better than others
  13. New Finnish study: Dietary cholesterol or egg consumption do not increase the risk of stroke
  14. Cement as a climate killer: Using industrial waste to produce carbon neutral alternatives
  15. Reduction in Drinking Associated with Improvements in Health and Quality of Life
  16. A Plastic Paradise
  17. Scientists propose rethinking ‘endangered species’ definition to save slow-breeding giants
  18. Fecal microbiota transplant found safe and effective in children with C. difficile
  19. Helping robots remember: Hyperdimensional computing theory could change the way AI works
  20. ‘Doing Science,’ Rather than ‘Being Scientists,’ More Encouraging to Those Underrepresented in the Field
  21. Whole grain can contribute to health by changing intestinal serotonin production
  22. Older fathers put health of partners, unborn children at risk, Rutgers study finds
  23. Multiple sclerosis: Discovery of a mechanism responsible for chronic inflammation
  24. Cognitive enhancers to boost abilities at work considered acceptable by the public
  25. ‘Ave an Avocado
  26. Scientists find link between digital media use and depression in Chinese adolescents
  27. Broccoli sprout compound may restore brain chemistry imbalance linked to schizophrenia
  28. Montmorency tart cherries may provide benefits for adults with metabolic syndrome
  29. Can listening instead of just looking change attitudes to how we experience a day out at the zoo?
  30. Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic From the Inside Out
  31. Maternal nut consumption during pregnancy linked to improvements in neurodevelopment in children
  32. Transplanting gut bacteria alters depression-related behavior, brain inflammation in animals
  33. Chronic Disruptions to Circadian Rhythms Promote Tumor Growth, Reduce Efficacy of Cancer Therapy—But How?
  34. Growing Pains
  35. Making the invisible visible: New method opens unexplored realms for liquid biopsies
  36. Prolonged exposure to low-dose radiation may increase the risk of hypertension (as may working in a Soviet nuclear plant)
  37. Young frogs that were stressed as tadpoles move less on land, putting their survival at risk
  38. Children and teens who drink low-calorie sweetened beverages do not save calories
  39. Is Captain America obese? Study highlights physical differences between male, female superheroes
  40. Warm Surface Water Temperatures Are Driving Melting on the World’s Largest Ice Shelf
  41. Crisis and suicide prevention services struggle with demand after celebrity suicides
  42. Field Study Finds Pellet-Fed Stoves Cut Pollutant Emissions 90%, Nearing Gas-Stove Performance

April 2019

  1. Millennials arrested more often than predecessors — even when fewer crimes are committed
  2. Biodegradable bags can hold a full load of shopping after 3 years in the environment
  3. It’s OK to indulge once in a while: The body adapts to occasional short-term overeating
  4. Hubble measurements suggest disparity in Hubble constant calculations is not a fluke
  5. A Tasty Smell
  6. Growing up in poverty increases diagnoses of psychosis-spectrum mental illnesses
  7. Scratching the skin primes the gut for allergic reactions to food, mouse study suggests
  8. Deep learning algorithm helps to predict response to treatment to acute ulcerative colitis
  9. Swallowed by the Sea
  10. Study could explain why people choose to have multiple relationships at the same time
  11. Blood pressure drug shows promise for treating Parkinson’s and dementia in animal study
  12. Gender Identity Leaves Imprint On Human Brains
  13. New combo software tool could provide answers to some of life’s most intriguing questions
  14. Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way
  15. Pythons Eat Everything. Now Scientists Think They’re Targeting Everglades Wading Birds
  16. ‘Snowball chamber’ helps researchers use supercooled water to search for dark matter
  17. A Local Disappearance
  18. Microbes in the human body swap genes, even across tissue boundaries, study indicates
  19. Research underscores value of cognitive training for adults with mild cognitive impairment
  20. Over-the-counter antioxidant mix improved vascular health in some heart failure patients
  21. Astronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of Jupiter
  22. Declassified U2 spy plane images reveal bygone Middle Eastern archaeological features
  23. Disinfection can help prevent spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, but what about their genes?
  24. The Death of Titus
  25. Gravitational waves helping to expose black holes, dark matter and theoretical particles
  26. Microglia, cells thought restricted to central nervous system, are redefined in new study
  27. Vitamin B12 is identified as the inhibitor of a key enzyme in hereditary Parkinson’s disease
  28. Experimental therapy completely clears HPV in one-third of cervical cancer precursors
  29. Analysis identifies patients most at risk for weight regain after bariatric surgery
  30. USDA Study Shows Significant Greenhouse Gas Benefits of Ethanol Compared with Gasoline
  31. Pregnant Women with Long Commutes to Work at Increased Risk for Adverse Birth Outcomes
  32. Blood test shows promise in predicting presymptomatic disease progression in people at risk of familial Alzheimer’s
  33. The Transpolar Drift is faltering — sea ice is now melting before it can leave the nursery
  34. Newly-discovered link between biological processes reveals a novel way to control inflammation
  35. URI researcher calculates temperature inside moon to help reveal its inner structure

March 2019

  1. Gastrointestinal complaints in children could signal future mental health problems
  2. Study finds white sharks with high levels of mercury, arsenic and lead in their blood
  3. Spiralling Down
  4. A ‘cookbook’ for vehicle manufacturers: Getting automated parts to talk to each other
  5. Scientists find metabolic target to prevent, treat heart failure at earliest stage
  6. Eat Glutathione
  7. An Elephant Never Forgets
  8. Using laws of physics to untangle traffic jams, stock markets, and other complex systems
  9. Giant X-ray ‘chimneys’ are exhaust vents for vast energies produced at Milky Way’s center
  10. Older immigrants living in US more satisfied with life than native-born counterparts
  11. Toilet seat that detects congestive heart failure getting ready to begin commercialization
  12. Mount Sinai and IBM researchers uncover key to greater efficacy in cancer treatment
  13. Alpine tundra releases long-frozen CO2 to the atmosphere, exacerbating climate warming
  14. ‘Insectageddon’ is ‘alarmist by bad design’: Scientists point out the study’s major flaws
  15. Superbugs have colonized the International Space Station — but there’s a silver lining
  16. Refugee women have healthier pregnancies than US women — why? An unhealthy US culture
  17. More evidence showing maltodextrin, a food additive, may cause inflammation in gut
  18. It’s Snowing Underwater
  19. Analyzing data from more than 1 million teenagers sheds new light on how teens learn to drive
  20. Needle in a haystack: Two days after stroke, a handful of blood cells reveal risk of dementia a year later
  21. Brain stimulation improves depression symptoms, restores brain waves in clinical study
  22. NIH-funded rodent study finds molecular link between adolescent alcohol use and adult anxiety
  23. New species of stiletto snake capable of sideways strikes discovered in West Africa
  24. Study: requiring landlords to disclose bedbugs cuts infestations, creates long-term savings
  25. Proofs of parallel evolution between cognition, tool development, and social complexity
  26. Fields of Green
  27. When coral reefs change, researchers and local communities may not see eye to eye
  28. Autonomous vehicles could be an environmental boon or disaster, depending on public policy
  29. Climate Change Will Expose Half of World’s Population to Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes By 2050
  30. Immunotherapy appears better than chemotherapy at treating aggressive form of skin cancer
  31. DNAm GrimAge—the Newest Methylation Clock
  32. When It Comes to Hearing Words, It’s a Division of Labor between Our Brain’s Two Hemispheres
  33. In a picture: How this robotic tendril mimics climbing plants – Dr Barbara Mazzolai
  34. Google Translates Doctor’s Orders into Spanish and Chinese with Few Significant Errors
  35. Not Just Neurons: Precision Signaling Architecture Discovered in Non-Neural Cells that Direct Development
  36. Study Finds Atypical Communications in Autism May Aid Diagnosis, Treatment Targets
  37. Breaking Memories
  38. Rare hoodwinker sunfish, never before seen in Northern Hemisphere, washes up at Coal Oil Point Reserve
  39. Soft, flexible sensors are the first to monitor babies in the NICU with precision and without wires

February 2019

  1. Progress in Methylation-based Aging Clocks
  2. Extinct weasel relative with confounding skull likely ate meat with a side of veggies
  3. New study reveals how human settlements and rainfall affect giraffe space use
  4. Research reveals a low-emissions use for coal that’s set to revolutionise the roofing and coal industries
  5. A River of Stars
  6. Study: Political parties sideline minority voters, leave other orgs to pick up the slack
  7. Scientists discover new type of immune cells that are essential for forming heart valves
  8. Video: Wild Mouse Gut Microbiota Promotes Host Fitness and Improves Disease Resistance
  9. Two types of HPV linked to cervical cancer have declined since the advent of the HPV vaccine
  10. Squid protein could provide an eco-friendly alternative to plastics (and no squid was harmed in the making of this film)
  11. Terror Attacks By Muslims Get 357 Percent More Media Coverage Than Other Terror Attacks
  12. Drug ‘librarian’ discovers new compound that may thwart common surgery complication
  13. Long periods of sedentary behavior may increase cardiovascular risk in older women
  14. Women More Likely to Believe the Bible Is Literally True, But Study Finds this May Have More to Do with Intimacy than Gender
  15. How do we conserve and restore computer-based art in a changing technological environment?
  16. Push-up capacity linked with lower incidence of future cardiovascular disease events among men
  17. The Curious Case of the Cassowary Casque
  18. New live-imaging technique reveals cellular repair crew plugging leaky biological barrier
  19. Stimulating the Vagus Nerve in the Neck Might Help Ease Pain Associated with PTSD
  20. For recurrent glioblastoma, immunotherapy before surgery appears to help more than afterward
  21. Electrical activity early in fruit flies’ brain development could shed light on how neurons wire the brain
  22. Couples Creating Art or Playing Board Games Release ‘Love Hormone’ — Men who Paint Release Most
  23. Tracking HIV’s Ever-Evolving Genome in Effort to Prioritize Public Health Resources
  24. Diverse scents of woodland star wildflowers driven by coevolution with pollinators
  25. Human brain protein associated with autism confers abnormal behavior in fruit flies
  26. Transplanting mismatched organs may be possible — and safe — in the future, new findings suggest
  27. A Trick of the Light
  28. Positive thinking during pregnancy could help children’s ability in math and science
  29. Wild Nature Institute, Penn State, and Microsoft Azure Work Together to Find the Giraffe in the Bushes
  30. Walnut consumers tend to have lower prevalence of depression symptoms, says new study
  31. NSAID pretreatment impairs immune response in heart failure, worsens heart and kidney damage
  32. Positive mindset about side effects of peanut-allergy treatment improves outcomes
  33. Rumors of Age Reversal: The Plasma Fraction Cure
  34. Dreadful discovery about crown-of-thorns starfish has silver lining for Great Barrier Reef
  35. Preserved in Ice
  36. Feed the need: Toddlers’ nutrition often short on vitamins, minerals, but long on sugar, salt

January 2019

  1. Fractures, head injuries common in e-scooter collisions, according to new research
  2. Transplanting pig hearts into sick babies may be a promising temporary treatment option
  3. Ultrasound helps predict successful fistula formation for kidney dialysis patients
  4. Crime prevention organizations may serve as helpful liaisons between police and communities
  5. Can a critic who becomes a believer sway others? The case of genetically modified foods
  6. Curious Barriers
  7. Extreme space weather can wreak havoc on Earth. These tools help warn of the dangers ahead
  8. Bioethicists Call for Oversight of Direct-to-Consumer ‘Neurotechnologies’ Promising Unproven Benefits
  9. Drones shown to make traffic crash site assessments safer, faster and more accurate
  10. People Likely To Temper Criminal Sentences When Given Information About The Cost Of Incarceration
  11. Alzheimer’s disease: It may be possible to restore memory function, preclinical study finds
  12. Unfit people are more physically active because of Sweatcoin the app that pays you to walk
  13. Artificial intelligence can dramatically cut time needed to process abnormal chest X-rays
  14. Researchers discover synaptic logic for connections between two brain hemispheres
  15. Chemically Preserved in Jelly
  16. Unraveling of 58-year-old corn gene mystery may have plant-breeding implications
  17. With fire, warming and drought, Yellowstone forests could be grassland by mid-century
  18. ‘Game-changing’ study uses four factors to predict severity, longevity of postpartum depression
  19. Common Food Additives May Promote Anxiety-Related And Anti-Social Behavior In Mice
  20. Common Gene Disorder that Causes Serious ‘Stealth’ Disease Could be Easily Treated
  21. Birth of a birther: White conservatives with political knowledge more likely to believe Obama conspiracy
  22. To Hold Warming to 1.5C, Nations Must Stop Building New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Immediately
  23. Pioneering surgery restores movement to children paralyzed by acute flaccid myelitis (AFC)
  24. Children’s wellbeing not negatively affected by living in single parent households
  25. Washing Our Worries Onto Others
  26. African-Americans may live longer after liver transplant if their donors are the same race
  27. Astronomers uncover the brightest quasar in the early universe – J043947.08+163415.7
  28. Study finds link between voter preference for Trump and bullying in middle schools
  29. Scientists inch closer to fusion energy with discovery of a process that stabilizes plasmas
  30. Dental flossing and other behaviors linked with higher levels of PFAS in the body
  31. Long-term breastfeeding sheds light on whether an infant becomes right- or left-handed
  32. Toothpastes with the gritty stuff are fashionable, but are they safe and effective to use?
  33. Fluctuating personal income may be associated with an increased heart disease risk
  34. It’s not epilepsy: Counseling helps those with often misdiagnosed seizure disorder
  35. Particulate Behaviour
  36. Revealing Hidden Spin: Unlocking New Paths Toward High-Temperature Superconductors
  37. Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis
  38. The number of single male Magellanic penguins is rising at this breeding colony. Here’s why.
  39. How economic theory and the Netflix Prize could make research funding more efficient
  40. Unmuting large silent genes lets bacteria produce new molecules, potential drug candidates
  41. Wireless ‘pacemaker for the brain’ could offer new treatment for neurological disorders

2018 370

December 2018

  1. Denial of Death or Denial of Immortality
  2. Rooting for Water
  3. Electronics of the future: A new energy-efficient mechanism using the Rashba effect
  4. Raining Rings
  5. The Body Electric
  6. Making DNA “DNA”
  7. Teens get more sleep, show improved grades and attendance with later school start time, researchers find
  8. Editing Consciousness: How Bereaved People Control Their Thoughts without Knowing It
  9. Genetic cause of ALS and frontotemporal dementia blocked by RNA-binding compound
  10. For these critically endangered marine turtles, climate change could be a knockout blow
  11. Breastfeeding for more than 6 months associated with smaller maternal waist circumference
  12. Levels of gene-expression-regulating enzyme altered in brains of people with schizophrenia
  13. Self-perception and reality seem to line-up when it comes to judging our own personality
  14. New gravitational waves detections shed light on entire population of black holes
  15. Study Finds Dramatic Growth in Numbers of “Supporting Scientists” on Research Teams
  16. My Climate
  17. Ride-hailing, emerging technologies, AVs, can play greater role in transit-commuting lifestyle, APTA finds
  18. Healthy gut bacteria help ward off age-related insulin resistance in animal models
  19. Governments at COP24 should focus on building a global electricity grid – Prof. Damien Ernst
  20. Biggest extinction in Earth’s history caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping for breath
  21. Atoms stand in for electrons in system for probing high-temperature superconductors
  22. The Future of Work
  23. Prenatal exposure to chemicals in personal care products may speed puberty in girls
  24. More data, more problems: Selecting fewer measurements could improve health-risk assessments
  25. The Arctic faces substantial changes even if we meet climate targets – Marianne Kroglun
  26. Discovery of single material that produces white light could boost efficiency of LED bulbs
  27. High risk alternative tobacco products disproportionately sold in low-income communities
  28. Bonus for superior snoozing: Students who meet 8-hour sleep challenge do better on finals

November 2018

  1. A Hidden Trace
  2. Early Detection Of Epilepsy In Children Via Deep Learning Computer Science Technique
  3. ‘Internet of electricity’ and zero-carbon molecules will help decarbonise Europe – report
  4. Newly discovered deep-sea microbes gobble greenhouse gases and perhaps oil spills, too
  5. Driving Stress
  6. New method for studying gene expression could improve understanding of brain disease
  7. Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion
  8. Tactile Excel sheets and graphics to boost job prospects for blind people 20 November 2018
  9. The Deadly Rains
  10. Voters would have forgiven Cameron for failing to hold an EU referendum, study shows
  11. Letter to an Incipient Cancer Survivor
  12. To reduce food waste, scientists are making labels that track produce as it spoils
  13. Ancient DNA from Central, South America reveal genetic exchanges, population turnover
  14. System to rid space station of astronaut exhalations inspires Earth-based CO2 removal
  15. Soy formula feeding during infancy associated with severe menstrual pain in adulthood
  16. Plastic microfibers found for first time in wild animals’ stool, from S. A. fur seals
  17. A Temperate Disturbance
  18. Simple method for linking molecules could help overcome drug resistant infections
  19. Carlos Moedas: The EU will fund more social innovation because it’s the future of innovation
  20. Beating our Fears
  21. Take a lot of sick days? Who you know and where you live might be partly to blame
  22. Earth’s oceans have absorbed 60 percent more heat per year than previously thought
  23. Poll: Half of women over 50 experience incontinence, but most haven’t talked to a doctor

October 2018

  1. Bioeconomies aim to become a beating heart of local communities, both rural and urban
  2. The First Lawyer of Behavior Genetics Speaks Out Against Plomin’s Blueprint
  3. Oral curcumin shows no benefit in reducing inflammation following vascular surgery
  4. Records of our Future Past
  5. New research connects heat, weekends with aggressive crimes and shootings in Chicago
  6. Logging for Biomass Energy Blasted by 120 Civil Society and Scientific Organizations from 30 Countries
  7. Mathematicians propose new hunting model to save rhinos and whales from extinction
  8. With icilin and DMPP, researchers make mice skinny imitating effects from cold, nicotine
  9. Study casts doubt on plants’ ability to continue absorbing same amounts of carbon dioxide
  10. Fisetin—a new senolytic
  11. Home-based biofeedback therapy is effective option for tough-to-treat constipation
  12. Transcendental Meditation enhances EQ and reduces perceived stress in the workplace
  13. Eliminating coal, oil and natural gas is the easy part of fighting climate change – Johan Rockström
  14. Does Aspirin have a protective role against cardiovascular diseases in healthy elderly?
  15. A Dusty Eviction
  16. New material, manufacturing process use sun’s heat for cheaper renewable electricity
  17. Dry conditions in East Africa half a million years ago possibly shaped human evolution
  18. Northern Fur Seal New and Recolonized Breeding Sites Have Population Growth Rates Among the Fastest of Any Fur Seal
  19. High-dose radiation therapy improves survival in patients once thought incurable
  20. Hydrogen use doesn’t emit carbon but its production often does. That could soon change
  21. HIV-positive infants are at high risk for acquiring congenital cytomegalovirus infection
  22. The Eugenics Crusade, on PBS’s The American Experience
  23. A cure for Alzheimer’s? Yes, a cure for Alzheimer’s!
  24. Males have greater reproductive success if they spend more time taking care of kids
  25. Teen girls did not engage in riskier sexual behavior after HPV vaccination introduced in school
  26. A (Mentally) Healthy Diet
  27. Fatal police shootings more frequent in U.S. states with high household gun ownership
  28. Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization
  29. Lung Cancer Deaths 28 Percent Lower in California Due to Long-term, Aggressive Tobacco Control Programs
  30. White Americans see many immigrants as ‘illegal’ until proven otherwise, survey finds
  31. Early brain networks may help predict a child’s IQ and emotional behavior at age four
  32. To crash or swerve? Study reveals which actions taken by self-driving cars are morally defensible
  33. Delayed pushing appears to have no effect on chances for spontaneous vaginal delivery
  34. Polar bears gorged on whale carcasses to survive past warm periods, but it won’t work this time
  35. Stamp-sized graphene sheets riddled with holes could be boon for molecular separation
  36. Even when presented with facts, supported by evidence, many people choose not to believe them
  37. Aubrey & Me
  38. Racial discrimination linked to higher risk of chronic illness in African American women
  39. Lies, damned lies, and GWAS
  40. A Deficit in Spring
  41. AI could predict cognitive decline leading to Alzheimer’s disease in the next 5 years
  42. Dietary pattern is the biggest contributor to higher rates of hypertension in African Americans
  43. Study: Pressure to publish in top journals stifles creativity in economic research
  44. Seeing Spots: New Study Reveals the Giraffe Babies Inherit Spot Patterns from Their Mothers and Certain Spot Traits Improve Newborn Survival
  45. Tissue engineering is no quick fix for kidney disease, but early intervention can help
  46. Binge drinking and blackouts: sobering truths about lost learning for college students

September 2018

  1. A Blemish in Our Atmosphere
  2. Combination HIV antibody infusions safely maintain viral suppression in select individuals
  3. Fecal microbiota transplantation helps restore beneficial bacteria in cancer patients
  4. For Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections, How Well Antibiotics Work May be Affected by pH, Oxygen
  5. Refining intergalactic measurements could alter our whole understanding of physics
  6. Chinese Longevity Herb
  7. DNA testing of illegal ivory seized by law enforcement links multiple ivory shipments to same dealers
  8. Sky ku
  9. Researchers develop algorithm to automatically generate multiple-choice exam responses
  10. Investigational steroid mirrors prednisone’s benefits while taming its side effects
  11. Brightline acquires XpressWest: Plans to offer Vegas-to-Victorville electrified train service in 2022
  12. If you’re over 50, don’t stop taking aspirin
  13. Medicaid expansion boosted the financial health of low-income Michigan residents
  14. Quick and easy test for viral infections reduces hospital admissions and antibiotic use
  15. Paracetamol use in infancy is linked to increased risk of asthma in some teenagers
  16. Daily low-dose aspirin found to have no effect on healthy life span in older people
  17. Tenfold improvement in liquid batteries mean electric car refuelling could take minutes
  18. Advanced Analytic Methods Could Provide Insight Into Mechanisms of Behavior Change
  19. The Spoils of Peace
  20. A Single Gene Mutation May Have Helped Humans Become Optimal Long-Distance Runners
  21. Discovery of new neurons in the inner ear can lead to new therapies for hearing disorders
  22. Tool improves automated image vectorization, saving digital artists time and effort
  23. Researchers identify molecule with anti-aging effects on vascular system, study finds
  24. Back pain is associated with mental health problems and risky behaviors in teenagers
  25. Patients with sepsis at higher risk of stroke, heart attack after hospital discharge
  26. Coal plant offsets with carbon capture means covering 89 percent of the US in forests
  27. Whole grains one of the most important food groups for preventing type 2 diabetes
  28. State-of-the-art imaging techniques reveal heightened detail and beauty of vertebrate life
  29. Nerve pain in the legs? Medical marijuana may alter brain connections, bring relief
  30. Artificial forest air and light-based chemical reactions tackle indoor pollution
  31. 8,000 new antibiotic combinations are surprisingly effective, UCLA biologists report
  32. Age, race or need for instant gratification — which best predicts how much you will earn?
  33. Homelessness for more than six months can cause significant damage to a child’s health
  34. Dark energy is the biggest mystery in cosmology, but it may not exist at all – leading physicist

August 2018

  1. New Zealand penguins make mammoth migrations, traveling thousands of kilometers to feed
  2. Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior
  3. Anxiety, depression, other mental distress may increase heart attack, stroke risk in adults over 45
  4. Do You Have A Right To Know If You Are Sitting On A Ticking Timebomb? Apparently Not
  5. Researchers reveal cause of aggressive skin cancer in patients with butterfly syndrome
  6. How we judge personality from faces depends on our beliefs about how personality works
  7. Heat shock / Cold shock
  8. Security millimetre wave body scanner safe for patients with pacemakers and defibrillators
  9. Peer Review
  10. Scientists discover first direct evidence of surface exposed water ice on the moon
  11. Researchers find a neural ‘auto-correct’ feature we use to process ambiguous sounds
  12. Neuroscientists restore significant bladder control to 5 men with spinal cord injuries
  13. For exotic pets, the most popular are also most likely to be released in the wild
  14. Massive monumental cemetery built by Eastern Africa’s earliest herders discovered in Kenya
  15. Living close to urban green spaces is associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer
  16. More minorities labeled ‘learning disabled’ because of social inequities, study finds
  17. Nice sunny days can grow into heat waves — and wildfires: summer weather is stalling
  18. Fractured Water
  19. Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
  20. Scientists trace atmospheric rise in CO2 during deglaciation to deep Pacific Ocean
  21. First study on physical properties of giant cancer cells may inform new treatments
  22. Female cheetahs detect suitable mates from males’ urine
  23. Managing energy demand spikes with seasonal forecasts of heatwaves and cold spells
  24. High fruit and vegetable consumption may reduce risk of breast cancer, especially aggressive tumors
  25. Food prices for consumers in ethnic enclaves could explain difference in assimilation rates
  26. Flat-pack homes and profit-sharing retrofits are making sustainable housing affordable
  27. Community Wildlife Management Areas Are Successfully Conserving Wildlife in Tanzania
  28. Curiosity Did Not Kill Schrödinger’s Cat
  29. Mere expectation of checking work email after hours harms health of workers and families
  30. The mobile apps and wearable tech tapping into users’ emotions to tackle depression and anxiety
  31. One in 10 IBS with diarrhea patients wish they were dead when their condition is bad
  32. Global warming could be in reverse by 2050 if we take action now – Chad Frischmann
  33. Solving its insolubility, researchers discover method to deliver curcumin to cancer cells
  34. New tool helps users control which countries their internet traffic goes through
  35. Next-generation ALS drug silences inherited form of the disease in animal models
  36. International Research Team Finds Correlation Between Genetics and Obesity Is Modified by Diet
  37. Rethinking ketchup packets: New approach to slippery packaging aims to cut food waste
  38. The Mouths in the Cave
  39. The Most Effective Personal Anti-aging Program

July 2018

  1. Inflammation inhibitor delivered directly to kidneys reverses course of destructive nephritis
  2. An Unwanted Tomb
  3. Rethinking psychedlics: Study looks at the practice of microdosing to ease anxiety and sharpen focus
  4. TBT: Galàpagos Tortoise
  5. Comprehensive meta-analysis reveals Spotted Owls are not significantly affected by forest fires
  6. A Breath in Time
  7. Prostate cancer progression trigger to incurable stage has likely been uncovered
  8. Scientists reverse aging-associated skin wrinkles and hair loss in a mouse model
  9. A Battle of Conservation
  10. Could human cancer treatments be the key to saving sea turtles from a disfiguring tumor disease?
  11. 15 minutes of exercise creates optimal brain state for mastering new motor skills
  12. Segregation by race and socioeconomic status persists in US cities, new study finds
  13. Database analysis more reliable than animal testing at predicting chemical toxicity in consumer products
  14. Oxygen levels on early Earth rose and fell several times before the successful Great Oxidation Event
  15. Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, faster
  16. Implanting diamonds with flaws to provide key technology for quantum communications
  17. Diabetic Breath
  18. Atomic Movie of Melting Gold Could Help Design Materials for Future Fusion Reactors
  19. How job candidates show their emotions may result in hiring disparities, workplace bias
  20. Common IVF add-on ‘Endometrial scratch’ fails to provide any benefit in a large randomized trial
  21. Alpine Apnea and Aging

June 2018

  1. Listening for Messages in the Bubbles
  2. Your DNA is Weirder than You Think
  3. Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care
  4. The Longer Women Live in Poor Neighborhoods, the Less Likely They Are to Gain Healthy Pregnancy Weight
  5. New photodetector could improve night vision, thermal sensing and medical imaging
  6. Princeton economists find that unions had historical role in helping address income inequality
  7. Break It Down: Understanding the Formation of Chemical Byproducts During Water Treatment
  8. Bad behavior to significant other in tough times has more impact than positive gestures
  9. Scientists solve the case of the missing subplate, with wide implications for brain science
  10. Bandage which sticks inside the mouth will revolutionize treatment of oral conditions
  11. Europe is in danger of being out-innovated in regenerative medicine – Prof. Ton Rabelink
  12. Learning to Listen
  13. How to recognize and stop your need for magic: the cautionary tale of vaccines and autism
  14. BCG vaccine leads to long-term blood sugar improvement in type 1 diabetes patients
  15. This algorithm can predict who will win a debate. It might also help save democracy.
  16. One in 5 parents did not talk to kids about what to do if they got lost at an amusement park
  17. New compound shown to be as effective as FDA-approved drugs against life-threatening infections
  18. Fenced In
  19. New algorithm can discover materials with unusual characteristics—including invisibility
  20. System allows surveillance cameras to ‘talk’ to the public through individual smartphones
  21. Numbers of Maori and Pacific students training to be doctors and dentists skyrocket
  22. Water fluoridation confirmed to prevent dental decay in US children and adolescents
  23. Pharmacists intervention improves management of diseases among Syrian refugees in Jordan
  24. Foods combining fats and carbohydrates more rewarding than foods with just fats or carbs
  25. Medical imaging technology detects vascular disorders, injuries in brain without invasive contrast agents
  26. Transparent pricing boosts business at outpatient surgical centers, study suggests
  27. People who deeply grasp pain or happiness of others, process music differently in brain
  28. Scientist’s new database can help protect wildlife from harmful hues of LED lights
  29. Physiological benefits may be experienced by veterans with PTSD who use service dogs
  30. Patients’ self-diagnosis of personality disorders not as far off as previously believed
  31. Ingesting honey after swallowing button battery reduces injury and improves outcomes
  32. Development of vaccines from AIDS to Zika, using a novel ‘plug and play’ viral platform
  33. We are Drifting Apart
  34. Antibody blocks inflammation, protects mice from hardened arteries and liver disease
  35. Study links sleep loss with nighttime snacking, junk food cravings, obesity, diabetes
  36. Stem Cell-Based Phase I Trial to Repair Spinal Cord Injuries Produces Encouraging Results
  37. Link between bacteria metabolism, communication could pave way for new antivirulence drugs
  38. There’s a Storm Coming

May 2018

  1. Black Sea research could reveal cultural sites and methane ice – Dr Adrian Stanica
  2. Scientists use a photonic quantum simulator to make virtual movies of molecules vibrating
  3. Swabbing cesarean-born babies with vaginal fluids potentially unsafe and unnecessary
  4. Self-driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by at least 75 percent to stay on the roads
  5. Chemical Compound Produces Beneficial Inflammation and Remyelination That Could Help Treat MS
  6. Most popular vitamin and mineral supplements provide no health benefit, study finds
  7. Epidemiologist discusses a little-known virus that could become the next global pandemic
  8. Breaking Their Resilience
  9. Study suggests obese children who meet milk guidelines have less risk of metabolic syndrome
  10. Solar Impulse ‘Efficient Solution’ label for profitable start-ups to boost clean energy investment
  11. Study predicts most people with earliest Alzheimer’s signs won’t develop dementia from the disease
  12. Cleaned-up data shows bigger-than-thought reduction in Europe’s NO2 pollution – Dr Folkert Boersma
  13. Behavioral Interventions That Address Alcohol Use Help People Living With HIV/AIDS
  14. A Sting in the Tail
  15. World first use of cognitive training reduces gait freezing in Parkinson’s patients
  16. A quantum entanglement between two physically separated ultra-cold atomic clouds
  17. Cannabidiol significantly reduces seizures in patients with severe form of epilepsy
  18. New Prevalence Estimates of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Range From 1 to 5 Percent in U.S. Communities
  19. Neutrons measured with unprecedented precision using a ‘magneto-gravitational trap’
  20. Epidemics, Meltdowns, and Climate Change — Books about Catastrophes, Disaster, and Existential Threats
  21. Protective protein activated by vitamin K found, inactive, abundant in blacks on dialysis
  22. We may be underestimating future economic growth, and its potential climate effects
  23. 3 Stories of Sex and Death in Evolution
  24. An Evolutionary Trap
  25. The Yogi masters were right — meditation and breathing exercises can sharpen your mind
  26. Alcohol and tobacco are by far the biggest threat to human welfare of all addictive drugs
  27. How even one automated, connected vehicle can improve safety and save energy in traffic
  28. Idle talk or fierce competition? Research finds women use gossip as a weapon in rivalries
  29. Women seeking crowdfunding financing for start-ups are perceived as more trustworthy
  30. Study finds better measures than a person’s occupation to predict long-term earnings
  31. Will automated vehicles take the stress out of driving? Research says ‘don’t count on it’
  32. 25 years of fossil collecting yields clearest picture of extinct 12-foot aquatic predator
  33. Merged microscope offers unprecedented look at biological processes in living cells
  34. Engineers studying nanodefects suspected of causing early failures of electrical materials
  35. Brain activity, reactivity help explain diabetics’ negative feelings and risk for depression
  36. Researchers develop ‘hibernation in a dish’ to study how animals adapt to the cold
  37. Zebra finches’ social experiences alter their genomic DNA, changing ability to learn
  38. Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum
  39. Stellar Nurseries
  40. ‘I opened a bottle with Stephen Hawking to celebrate our eureka moment’ – Prof. Thomas Hertog
  41. App allows for crowdsourced exercise plans, which rival trainers in effectiveness
  42. Researchers investigate behavior in quantum systems with a toy-inspired technique
  43. Environmental impact of electric vehicles in China? It depends on how they are charged
  44. Scientists identify two hormones that burn fat faster, prevent and reverse diabetes in mice
  45. Face recognition for galaxies: Artificial intelligence brings new tools to astronomy
  46. Researchers lay out how to control biology with light—without the help of genetics

April 2018

  1. Computers Equal Radiologists in Assessing Breast Density and Associated Breast Cancer Risk
  2. Observing Chinese Starbucks patrons reveals what their ancestors farmed, study finds
  3. Scientists verify a way of how to improve resolution of most powerful microscopes
  4. Online reviews of plastic surgeons — study looks at differences between happy and unhappy patients
  5. A potential new weapon in the addiction battle: FDA-approved diabetes and obesity drugs
  6. Higher aerobic fitness levels are associated with better word production skills in healthy older adults
  7. Following five healthy lifestyle habits may increase life expectancy by decade or more
  8. Washed Away
  9. Preventive Use of Common Antibiotic Reduces Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
  10. Meet Celeris, the first interactive coastal wave modeling software that runs faster than real-time
  11. Noninvasive spinal stimulation method enables paralyzed people to regain use of hands
  12. Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease
  13. Influence of early humans on mammal biodiversity occurred earlier than previously thought
  14. Millennials aren’t getting the message about sun safety and the dangers of tanning
  15. Landmark paper finds light at end of the tunnel for world’s wildlife and wild places
  16. First genetic evidence of ongoing mating between 2 distinct species of guenon monkeys
  17. Shooting Planets
  18. Nicotinamide in aging mice shows some health improvements, but not increased longevity
  19. Light at Night Can Disrupt Circadian Rhythms in Children. Are There Long-Term Risks?
  20. Digital remains should be treated with the same care and respect as physical remains
  21. Transcendental Meditation empowers disadvantaged Ugandan mothers
  22. The Mother of All Clinical Trials, Part II
  23. Elimination of p63 gene could convert scar tissue into muscle tissue in the heart
  24. CATS: Tram to operate sans overhead wires; is almost fully recyclable at end of life
  25. San Diego regional-transportation-plan-dispute outcome sets precedent for California cities
  26. Reading Rings in the Sky
  27. Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulator
  28. Everything you wanted to know about wildland forest fires but were afraid to ask
  29. The Mother of All Clinical Trials, Part I
  30. The link between losing a relative during pregnancy and the mental health of the child
  31. People would rather pop a pill or sip tea than exercise to treat high blood pressure
  32. Remote Consequences
  33. Relax, Repeat: Mind-body approaches may reduce blood pressure in those with hypertension
  34. Turning food waste into animal feed could take a chunk out of livestock emissions
  35. NIAAA Scientists Provide More Evidence that Binge Drinking May Indicate Vulnerability to Alcohol Use Disorder
  36. Three-month-old infants can learn abstract relations before language comprehension
  37. Giraffe Skin Disease Linked to Soil Fertility
  38. New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920
  39. Study finds fiber supplement increased insulin secretion in Type 2 diabetic patients

March 2018

  1. Ghostly Galaxies
  2. New study finds world’s largest desert, the Sahara, has grown by 10 percent since 1920
  3. Fleet of automated electric taxis could deliver environmental and energy benefits
  4. Evaluation and treatment of depression may reverse memory and cognitive difficulties
  5. ‘Evolution, not revolution’ will guide next EU research funding programme – Jean-Eric Paquet
  6. Researchers Developing Drug Delivery Patches to Manage Pain Without Addiction Risk
  7. Searching for long-term success in weight management? Forget dieting and eat regularly
  8. Open access to scientific publications must become a reality by 2020 – Robert-Jan Smits
  9. A Broken Sink
  10. Facebook fallout: Americans’ privacy at risk across entire tech, information industry
  11. Telomerase: Update and Downgrade
  12. A Slippery Slope
  13. Complexities, combinations of age-related brain conditions are challenge to combating cognitive decline
  14. The Sound of Shapes
  15. Level of inflammation could help predict effectiveness of electroconvulsive therapy for major depression
  16. Gastric bypass surgery can give better control for diabetes and obesity than lifestyle modification
  17. Separated at Birth
  18. Trial of omega fatty acid supplementation in toddlers born preterm shows promising results

February 2018

  1. The Gut Bacteria of Cockroaches Provide a Potential Solution to Antibiotic Resistance
  2. Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Tanzania Yields Ecological Success
  3. Planet Earth II
  4. Study debunks claim that medical marijuana laws increase recreational pot use for US teens
  5. New Silvicultural Treatments to Achieve Sustainable Management of Canadian Boreal Forest
  6. A Fractured Song
  7. Researchers find existing drug methyldopa effective at preventing onset of type 1 diabetes
  8. Methylation Aging Clock: An Update
  9. FDA approves new treatment for a certain type of prostate cancer using novel clinical trial endpoint
  10. To prevent cyberattacks, paper suggests agency similar to National Transportation Safety Board
  11. Nicotinamide riboside prevents neurological damage, shows cognitive benefits in mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease
  12. Deep-sea fish use hydrothermal vents to incubate eggs
  13. Go and Plant a Tree
  14. T & C: Our impact on Earth; its impact on us – Part 6: Waste: Smart disposal thereof does much, goes far
  15. How to Test Interactions among Life Extension Treatments
  16. T & C: Our impact on Earth; its impact on us – Part 4: Housing, business and the economy
  17. New Life in Hostile Winds

January 2018

  1. Higher education must change to prepare Americans for artificial intelligence revolution
  2. Brittle Eyes
  3. Engineers develop flexible, water-repellent graphene circuits for washable electronics
  4. Dietary Fiber Protects Against Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
  5. Astronomers Create First Detailed Images of Surface of Giant Star Astronomers Create First Detailed Images of Surface of Giant Star
  6. Terms and conditions: Our impact on Earth; its impact on us – Part 2: In excess – Sprawl
  7. My Ageing Book Released in UK and Asia-Pacific
  8. Ambitious New Anti-aging Trial in Humans
  9. Post-fire Logging, But Not Severe Fire, Harms Spotted Owls
  10. Global Stress
  11. Exposing hypocrisy can effectively reduce collective blame of Muslims for individual violent acts
  12. Truth Decay: Declining trust in facts, institutions imposes real-world costs on US society
  13. Marriage, Sex and Longevity
  14. Insomnia may stem from hyperalert brains shaped by genes and childhood – Prof. Eus Van Someren
  15. New effort lets students, researchers use 3-D models of bones, artifacts for remote research
  16. Sex Change
  17. Hot spot policing focusing on guns is most effective strategy for reducing gun violence in Baltimore
  18. A Limited Shelf Life
  19. AI is like having a treasure map to find disease-preventing molecules – Dr Nora Khaldi
  20. Perfectionism among young people significantly increased since 1980s, study finds
  21. Treating refugees from Western perspective leaves providers and patients lost in translation

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December 2017

  1. The Other Half of Science
  2. An Internal Scale
  3. Short-term exposure to low levels of air pollution linked with premature death among U.S. seniors
  4. The science behind the stories: drug treatment to slow progress of Huntington’s disease.
  5. An Interstellar Climate
  6. Shutdown of coal-fired power plant results in significant fetal health improvement in downwind areas
  7. Forget Russia: Fake social media accounts can spread lies about vaccination safety, e-cigarettes
  8. Accelerators, fab labs and hackathons – the tech tools being co-opted for social good
  9. Artificial intelligence helps accelerate progress toward efficient fusion reactions
  10. Scholars find $21 trillion in unauthorized government spending; Defense Department to conduct first-ever audit
  11. Research For All
  12. Forty years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can stave off new infection
  13. Why EPA proposal to put high-polluting diesel trucks back on American roadways is a bad move
  14. Researchers Develop ‘Antelope Perfume’ to Stem Tide of Tsetse Fly Carried Illnesses
  15. A Musical Sound?
  16. The Varieties of Aging in Nature
  17. Lawn, related equipment-emissions output could outstrip light-duty vehicles’ in So Cal if …
  18. Apologia pro Scientia Sua
  19. In Hidden Trenches

November 2017

  1. Life is Dust
  2. A Dead Theory Still Walks
  3. A Twisted Knot
  4. Selfies for developing identity: the influence of social media self-presentation and mindfulness
  5. Blue lighting is scientifically proven to help us relax faster than white lighting after an argument
  6. Is This the End?
  7. Aging in the news this week
  8. Hidden in the Forest

October 2017

  1. Digging Deeper in Response to Reader Comments
  2. Comment: Why being ‘overweight’ means you live longer: the way scientists twist the facts.
  3. Closest look yet at killer T-cell activity could yield new approach to tackling antibiotic resistance
  4. You Shed Your Brain for Winter
  5. Ordinance reduces violent crime near late-night bars by making owners part of solution
  6. Why damaging dogs is not an effective way to better diagnosis and treatments for people with osteoarthritis
  7. Preserve the Power – taking the fight against antimicrobial resistance to the big screen
  8. An Invisible Disorder
  9. Flexible ‘skin’ can help robots, prosthetics perform everyday tasks by sensing shear force
  10. Citizens across the North invited to get moving and help heart research in UK digital health first
  11. Air Pollution and Life Expectancy
  12. Dietary supplement glucosamine dampens brain hyperexcitability seen in seizures, epilepsy
  13. A History of Soot Preserved in Feathers
  14. Schrodinger’s Hippopotamus
  15. Meet Madagascar’s oldest animal lineage, a whirligig beetle with 206-million-year-old origins
  16. Study Shows Genetically Modified Soybean Oil Causes Less Obesity and Insulin Resistance but Negatively Impacts Liver Function
  17. Is Cancer a Mitochondrial Disease?

September 2017

  1. In obese adults and children, the microbiome plays key role in one of the most common and serious liver diseases
  2. Septic shock- replacing sick mouse ‘models’ with healthy human volunteers makes for better science.
  3. Plastic Food
  4. Genetically altered mice display traits of bipolar disorder, respond to lithium treatment
  5. What Manchester does today, the rest of the world does tomorrow
  6. Flint water crisis led to lower fertility rates, higher fetal death rates, researchers find
  7. A Nasal Quorum
  8. New Study on Graphene-Wrapped Nanocrystals Makes Inroads Toward Next-Gen Fuel Cells
  9. Follow-up on Telomeres: Genetic Studies vs Straight Epidemiology
  10. Unwanted Feedback
  11. You All Fall Down

August 2017

  1. Nanoparticle-drug combo turns white fat to brown fat with potential to treat obesity, diabetes
  2. Don’t HIIT too Hard
  3. New Evidence that Long Telomeres cause Cancer, and Why I Think It’s Wrong
  4. A Collective Noun for Science
  5. Squalls on Distant Seas
  6. Building the Case that Aging is Controlled from the Brain
  7. An Elevated Imbalance
  8. Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions
  9. Blood test: Scientists crack code of chronic fatigue syndrome’s inflammatory underpinnings

July 2017

  1. A Distant Dawn
  2. Humanising mice – more an exercise in testing the limits of the technology and less the answer to a cure for hepatitis C.
  3. Mitochondria in Aging, II: Remedies
  4. The Skies Perpetually Revolve in Vain
  5. Replacing a palatable high-fat diet with low fat food causes withdrawal-like symptoms in mice
  6. Unlimited Contrast: Technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity, audio that doesn’t skip or pop
  7. Researchers find first genomic biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in veterinary patients
  8. Mitochondria in Aging, I Mechanisms and Background
  9. Disgusting Holes
  10. Prelude to global extinction: Disappearance of species tells only part of the story of human impact on Earth’s animals
  11. Hot new imagery of wintering bats suggests a group behavior for battling white-nose syndrome
  12. Caged Poems
  13. Combating Candida Albicans: Scientists aim to stunt the growth of serious fungal infections
  14. NIAID scientists identify cause, possible treatment for life-threatening gut condition

June 2017

  1. Poetry Friday: Bad Breath
  2. Poetry Friday: Puppy Love
  3. A major source of antibiotics may also contribute to antibiotic resistance, new research suggests
  4. A Brief History of Field Work on Giraffe before the Year 2000
  5. Preventing Dementia
  6. Stopping The Danger From Within: New Hope For Breast Cancer Patients From Immunotherapy
  7. Table for One
  8. More than a third of heater-cooler devices used in open heart surgery may be contaminated with deadly bacteria
  9. Researchers aim to repurpose former experimental cancer therapy to treat muscular dystrophy
  10. Donor microbes persist up to two years after a fecal transplant to treat recurrent C. difficile infection
  11. WHO’s Essential Medicine List updated, with new guidelines on how antibiotics should used
  12. New Documentary Gives Smokey Bear A New, Positive Message About Forest Fire
  13. The Wheat from the Chaff
  14. New low-cost material for lighting and diagnostics produces white light imitating sunlight
  15. Aging Gets Personal
  16. Your Cup of Tea?

May 2017

  1. New Study Describes A Threatened Long-Distance Wildebeest Migration Route
  2. Mind-controlled device helps stroke patients retrain brains to move paralyzed hands
  3. The PI3K/mTOR inhibitor GSK2126458 is effective for treating TSC solid renal tumours
  4. RadEquals
  5. Sequencing of Green Alga Genome Provides Blueprint to Advance Clean Energy, Bioproducts
  6. The Science of Forest Fire and Spotted Owls
  7. It's Been A Fantastic 18 Months For Giraffe Science
  8. Researchers create first significant examples of optical crystallography for nanomaterials
  9. The Only Experimental Subject Who Matters
  10. Stem cell transplants may advance ALS treatment by repair of blood-spinal cord barrier
  11. New understanding of superconductor’s 'normal' state may open the way to solving longstanding puzzle
  12. First Large-Scale Population Analysis Reinforces Ketamine’s Reputation as Antidepressant
  13. Experiments show that a few self-driving cars can dramatically improve traffic flow
  14. Research shows prejudice, not principle, often underpins ‘free-speech defense’ of racist language
  15. New Study Will Help Giraffe Conservation
  16. Digesting Waste

April 2017

  1. Ancient Cooling
  2. First-ever direct observation of chiral currents in quantum Hall atomic simulation
  3. Brands dedicated to positive social change use social media to primarily promote products
  4. Wonder material? Novel nanotube structure strengthens thin films for flexible electronics
  5. Fecal microbiota transplants improve cognitive impairment caused by severe liver disease
  6. Investigational dose of oral interferon-free treatment can cure hepatitis C in children
  7. An Artificial Transfusion
  8. The Inverse Faraday Effect, Laser Light and Magnetization of Metals: Addressing Fundamental Limits of Ultrafast Devices
  9. Mutant HIV complicates disease monitoring, distracts immune system from the functional virus
  10. Five Wildlife Protection Groups Petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Protect Giraffes under the U.S. Endangered Species Act
  11. Atlanta, Houston and Phoenix seen as top destinations for those forced to relocate due to climate change
  12. Why do we buy food we don’t intend to eat—and what can be done about it?
  13. Across White Fields
  14. DHM attenuates obesity-induced slow-twitch-fiber decrease via FLCN/FNIP1/AMPK pathway
  15. Researchers Examine the Relationship Between Drug Injection Risk Behaviors and Immune Activation
  16. Researchers uncover the structure of anti-TB drug target, and identify a new weapon against the deadly disease
  17. Robots could share information as they move around, conducting surveillance as a single entity with many eyes
  18. Prolonging Life with Fecal Transplants
  19. Monkeys in glass tubes and rats on rolling rods are not the answer for early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in people.
  20. Is fasting senolytic?
  21. Hair Testing Shows High Prevalence of New Psychoactive Substance Use among NYC Nightclub Attendees
  22. Electric hookah heating pads could be worse than charcoal for health

March 2017

  1. Researchers Find New Genetic Links Underlying Progressively Blinding Eye Disease
  2. Translucent Vessels
  3. Costly Curves: New study shows exposure to certain shapes influences personal spending
  4. Senolytics against Aging: Snapshot of a Fast-Moving Field
  5. We’ve discovered the most likely cause of cancer…and apparently it’s NOT bacon (Thank God).
  6. Anti-aging breakthrough? This one looks authentic
  7. Study confirms prescription weight-loss medication helps with opiate addiction recovery
  8. Echoes in the Dunes
  9. New Database of Lifespan Trials
  10. Evidence disproving tropical ‘thermostat’ theory: Global warming can breach limits for life
  11. Saving your eyesight: New research suggests chlorin e6 could protect against bacterial keratitis
  12. A Disappearing Shadow
  13. Parity-time symmetry breaking in an electrically injected, room temperature VCSEL array demonstrated for the first time
  14. Finding better treatments for tuberculosis, the computer is mightier than the mouse
  15. The Bees’ Scented Secrets
  16. Animal protection groups commend bill to ban dog and cat meat in the United States
  17. NF-kB Beyond Inflammation
  18. Pentamidine, wingman for the antibiotics: A new two-step approach to fight infections
  19. Study Participants Less Willing to Ride in Driverless Ambulances; Women Less Likely Than Men
  20. How many species of Giraffe are there?
  21. The influence of stimulants on performance when playing chess
  22. Nursing homes rarely use isolation precautions against multi-drug resistant infections, a recent study shows
  23. ‘Poor writing makes for poor science’: Scott Montgomery publishes new edition of popular ‘Guide to Communicating Science’
  24. A Piscine Problem

February 2017

  1. Mathematical theorem finds gerrymandering in Pennsylvania congressional district maps
  2. Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces New Technology for Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries
  3. Your name may help shape your face
  4. Fasting-Mimicking Diet: Can You Make it a Habit?
  5. In Search of New Life
  6. Single flexible fiber successfully delivers optical, electrical, and chemical signals back and forth into the brain
  7. Nurses’ Implementation of ECG Monitoring Practice Standards Improve Quality of Care & Patient Outcomes
  8. Extracting uranium from seawater could help nuclear power play a larger role in a carbon-free energy future
  9. Poetry Friday: Building Materials
  10. Luminescence switchable carbon nanodots follow intracellular trafficking and drug delivery
  11. Epilepsy drug discovered in fish model shows promise in small pediatric clinical trial
  12. The Minicare HNL wins the Horizon Prize – a device which could help reduce the misuse of antibiotics
  13. Nano-level lubricant tuning improves material for electronic devices and surface coatings
  14. Solar Stranding
  15. Sensors embedded in sports equipment could provide real-time analytics to your smartphone
  16. UCLA researchers turn stem cells into somites, precursors to skeletal muscle, cartilage and bone
  17. Glycine and Mitochondria
  18. Air quality and climate change: Birds of a feather or different animals completely?
  19. Crustacean Cloning

January 2017

  1. The Strings That Bind Us: Cytofilaments Connect Cell Nucleus to Extracellular Microenvironment
  2. TSC1 expression is affected by VHL alterations and HIF-1α production in clear-cell RCC
  3. Drought Disrupts Wildebeest Migration
  4. Sonnet to Science
  5. Mindfulness Meditation Training Lowers Biomarkers of Stress Response in Anxiety Disorder
  6. First Fruits of Research with Young Blood Plasma
  7. A Fake Diamond in the Sky
  8. Tool to map gene’s ‘social network’ sheds light on function, interactions and drug efficacy
  9. Improved measurements of antiproton’s magnetic moment deepen mystery of baryonic asymmetry
  10. Smartphone microscope offers cost-effective DNA sequencing and genetic mutation analysis
  11. Though an intensifying global bad-air problem, not all doom and gloom, World Bank report shows
  12. Proposed Forest Thinning Will Sabotage Natural Forest Climate Adaptation and Resistance to Drought, Fire, and Insect Outbreaks
  13. Changing atmospheric conditions may contribute to stronger ocean wave activity on the Antarctic Peninsula
  14. Nutrient-dependent FNIP degradation regulates FLCN localization and promotes renal cancer progression
  15. Self-Medicated Memories
  16. Illinois team advances GaN-on-Silicon technology toward scalable high electron mobility transistors
  17. Natural tooth repair method, using Alzheimer’s drug, could revolutionize dental treatments
  18. A Synthetic Thread
  19. Females seeking a sex partner can tell whether males experienced stress during adolescence
  20. Enzyme Could Protect Against Type of Colorectal Cancer By Suppressing Tumors, Study Finds Enzyme Could Protect Against Type of Colorectal Cancer By Suppressing Tumors
  21. Managing Medical Device Cybersecurity in the Postmarket: At the Crossroads of Cyber-safety and Advancing Technology
  22. In Stanford study, worms dine on nanoparticles to help test biological force sensor technology

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December 2016

  1. Epigenetics and the Direction of Anti-Aging Science
  2. The Leap Second
  3. Viral infection during pregnancy causes autism-like behaviors in mice by triggering key immune reaction
  4. Engineers create programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions
  5. From Santa Diego, a Jolla Xmas Gift
  6. Sprouting Success
  7. Medication pritelivir may provide greater virus suppression, reduction in lesions for patients with genital herpes
  8. Nutrition data review shows red meat has neutral effect on cardiovascular disease risk factors
  9. New stem cell delivery approach regenerates dental pulp-like tissue in a rodent model
  10. A Musical Cavity
  11. Warming global temperatures may not affect carbon stored deep in northern peatlands
  12. ‘Turbocharged artificial intelligence’ could personalize combination therapy in pediatric leukemia
  13. Telomeres—too much of a good thing?
  14. We Need You To Become A Giraffe Hero
  15. We Are All Made of Stars
  16. Secrets of the Paleo diet: Archeological discovery reveals plant-based menu of prehistoric man
  17. Giraffes declared vulnerable to extinction, world’s leading giraffe experts react
  18. Novel label-free microscopy enables dynamic, high-resolution imaging of cell interactions
  19. Brain blocks new memory formation on waking to safeguard consolidation of existing memories
  20. TSA could save money by waiving PreCheck fees for frequent travelers, study finds
  21. Tunneling holds key to high-speed modulation of transistor and laser development
  22. Plains of Paradise
  23. Single dose of hallucinogenic drug psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer

November 2016

  1. Authoritarian regimes use rhetoric to legitimize their power, despite no progress with democracy
  2. Bad timing is depressing: Disrupting the brain’s internal clock causes depressive-like behavior in mice
  3. Novel silicon etching technique crafts 3D gradient refractive index micro-optics
  4. Wives with a Romantic View of Marriage Are Less Likely to Volunteer and May Lead Husbands to Volunteer Less, Too
  5. Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3
  6. $4.7 million to better harness large data for social, behavioral, economic sciences research
  7. FLCN haploinsufficiency leads to lung fibroblast dysfunction in patients with BHD syndrome
  8. A Circle of Life
  9. Big Data for Big Animals: Part 2
  10. Big Data for Big Animals
  11. Aspartame may prevent, not promote, weight loss by blocking intestinal enzyme’s activity
  12. Can Traditional Chinese Medicine Help You Live Longer?
  13. The Heart of the Storm
  14. Old enemies, new hope – β-lactams could be used alongside other antibiotics to kill MRSA
  15. Machine-learning discovery and design of membrane active peptides for biomedicine
  16. Subterranean Homesick Fish
  17. Research on new, rapid screening test identifies potential therapies against drug-resistant bacteria
  18. A new, powerful antimicrobial peptide that can give the immune system a helping hand
  19. Physicist unlocks easier way to observe peculiar particles that reveal the inner workings of the sun
  20. Using a patient’s own words, machine learning automatically identifies suicidal behavior
  21. Study finds racial differences in eating patterns and food purchases among urban older women
  22. In an Age of Epigenetics, Does Antagonistic Pleiotropy Still Make Sense?
  23. Mothers-to-be may be sick of “morning sickness”, but does this symptom of pregnancy serve a purpose?
  24. Two recent case reports on BHD – Epidemiologic study of patients in Asia and new FLCN mutation
  25. Artificial Pain
  26. Proteins secreted by beneficial gut microbes shown to inhibit salmonella, invasive E. coli

October 2016

  1. Lack of Tsc2 in Mesenchymal Cells Causes Kidney Cysts and Defective Lung Alveolarization
  2. Fearful Fromage
  3. The Selflessness of Magpies
  4. AgingAdvice page is back online
  5. Music may help make high-intensity interval training viable option for average person
  6. Putting the “system” back in Systems Biology
  7. Adding Windows to Vacant Houses and Clearing Vacant Lots Reduces Gun Violence, Saves Money
  8. Naked to Pain
  9. Heart beat: Advanced test of inflammation may be superior predictor of cardiovascular risk
  10. Smokeless tobacco product snus may increase risk of death among prostate cancer patients
  11. Energizer lab worms keep on keeping on long after they have stopped laying eggs
  12. Understanding how plants withstand harsh conditions remains major research challenge
  13. Magnetic bacteria show promise as efficient vehicle for delivering tumor-fighting drugs
  14. As Drought Persists, Collaboration Seeks To Advance Technology That Helps Generate New Water Supply
  15. Written in the Stars
  16. Study: Protein linked to high risk of Alzheimer’s can be removed from brain without hindering learning, memory
  17. Nutritional Geometry 3: Ketosis— benefits & risks of oil-rich diets
  18. Algorithm could enable visible-light-based imaging for medical devices, autonomous vehicles

September 2016

  1. The Break Up
  2. Innovative Therapeutic Approach Shows Promise in Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  3. Engineer, explain thyself: Collaboration tool helps grad students communicate — in their own languages
  4. University of Illinois researchers quantify drug delivery from nanoparticles inside a cell
  5. Bird Brained
  6. New DNA from understudied groups reveals modern genetic variation, ancient population shifts
  7. “What are all these chemicals for?” – aka, a very basic primer on Formulation Chemistry
  8. Nutritional Geometry 2: Carb Restriction
  9. Unknown Pleasures
  10. Levitating nanoparticle improves ‘torque sensing,’ might bring new research into fundamentals of quantum theory
  11. New Poll: Most Americans Want Government to Combat Climate Change, But Divided On Paying For Solutions
  12. Special T cells that target solid tumors offer potential treatment for pediatric and adult cancers
  13. Chronic stress increases level of a protein that decreases availability of mood-regulating chemical
  14. Researchers find combined effects of two genes responsible for premature skull fusion in infants
  15. Stanford engineers develop the ‘potalyzer,’ a roadside saliva test for marijuana intoxication
  16. C9orf72-SMCR8 complex, analogous to FLCN- FNIP, localizes to lysosomes and regulates mTORC1
  17. Nutritional Geometry

August 2016

  1. Activity tracker uses heart rate to personalize amount of exercise needed to prevent death
  2. Smartphone speech recognition can write text messages three times faster than human typing
  3. Structural, regulatory and human error were factors in Washington highway bridge collapse
  4. NSF awards $110 million to bring advanced cyberinfrastructure to nation’s scientists, engineers
  5. FDA allows marketing of first-of-kind computerized cognitive tests to help assess cognitive skills after a head injury
  6. The Division of Life
  7. Zika infection may affect adult brain cells, suggesting risk may not be limited to pregnant women
  8. Scientists Take Big Step Toward Recreating Primordial ‘RNA World’ of Four Billion Years Ago
  9. Nobody Dies of Arthritis
  10. The Veins of Mars
  11. Streamers
  12. Medicaid expansion under ACA linked with better health care, improved health for low-income adults
  13. Forbidden Dreams
  14. Microbe Safari II: Geyser Creek
  15. Hid­den tooth in­fec­tions may pre­dis­pose people to heart dis­ease
  16. NOAA scientists report mass die-off of invertebrates at East Flower Garden Bank in Gulf of Mexico
  17. Astrophysicist warns of Outer Space Treaty loophole. Can corporations own celestial bodies?

July 2016

  1. An Astronaut’s Broken Heart
  2. Carbon dioxide can be stored underground for ten times the length needed to avoid climatic impact
  3. Microbe Safari
  4. Bison trouble
  5. Simpler, cheaper treatment as effective as cognitive behavioural therapy for treating depression
  6. The Death of a New Species
  7. Social Correlates of Longevity—Part II
  8. Electron ‘spin control’ of levitated nanodiamonds could bring advances in sensors, quantum information processing
  9. Infantile Memory Study Points to Critical Periods in Early-Life Learning for Brain Development
  10. Nasal irrigation may prevent chronic sinus ailments; steam inhalation not effective
  11. Even at a quarter of its eventual capacity, MeerKat telescope shows off phenomenal power
  12. Sweet Learning
  13. Social Correlates of Longevity—Part I
  14. Multiple suns and young planets: NSF-supported researchers lead exoplanet discoveries
  15. Curious Dunes
  16. Video: “Natural Anti-Aging” is an Oxymoron
  17. Warming pulses in ancient climate record link volcanoes, asteroid impact and dinosaur-killing mass extinction
  18. Chasing the volcano
  19. The Sparrowhawk

June 2016

  1. Scientists make a self-folding straw
  2. Wait, there’s a fly in my soup
  3. New neuroendovascular technique shows promise in stroke patients with large-vessel clots
  4. Religious Service Attendance Associated with Lower Suicide Risk Among Women
  5. Modeling NAFLD with human pluripotent stem cell derived immature hepatocyte like cells
  6. Rice University lab runs crowd-sourced competition to create ‘big data’ diagnostic tools
  7. TSRI scientists stabilize HIV structure, design potential AIDS vaccine candidates
  8. Super-slow circulation allowed world’s oceans to store huge amounts of carbon during last ice age
  9. CRISPR update
  10. The Coastal Calypso
  11. Preface to ‘Cracking the Aging Code’ by Josh Mitteldorf and Dorion Sagan
  12. Deceitful Looks
  13. Rapamycin Redux
  14. The Peppered Moth
  15. Lamarck Update
  16. An Unclaimed Son
  17. Dietary supplement may prevent and reverse severe damage to aging brain
  18. A Germ Theory of Aging?

May 2016

  1. Update: Cell Phones can cause Cancer
  2. Golden opportunity
  3. Senescence by the Sea
  4. The Deep Tracks of Unwanted Advances
  5. It Isn’t Really Up to Me
  6. The Whig interpretation of the gene
  7. A Quantum Key to a Classic Problem
  8. “No animal dies of old age in the wild”
  9. Our Children Are Not Werewolves
  10. Biological Entanglement
  11. Epigenetics of Aging, and Prospects for Rejuvenation
  12. Mothers’ excess pregnancy weight gain, elevated blood sugar ‘imprint’ obesity in children
  13. Twisted Love
  14. The Harmful Enclosure of Many Lands

April 2016

  1. Some Bed Bugs are Chromophobic
  2. Where the Wild Things Are
  3. Aging is a Military Coup
  4. Do Not Go into Artificial Light
  5. For once, I didn’t wince
  6. Retrotransposons: The Lamarckian Link
  7. Some Unfortunate Boars
  8. Politics Drives a Promising Nutraceutical Underground
  9. Scientists recommend action plan to combat changes to seawater chemistry
  10. Going North for the Winter

March 2016

  1. Ancient human relative interbred with ancestors of modern humans as recently as 50,000 years ago
  2. We Pray That We Will Find Silence
  3. Physicists prove energy input predicts molecular behavior
  4. Cholesterol and inflammation; Statins and alternatives (Part II)
  5. These Flying Beasts Are Hooked on Junk
  6. When your doctor suggests statins (Part 1: Mechanism of Action)
  7. Science curriculum tailored to English language learners boosts student achievement
  8. They Carved Your Name into My Arm
  9. Guest Post: Our Sisters
  10. Lost Echoes of Some Young Yet Ancient Star

February 2016

  1. Empathy related to anticipated emotional effort
  2. If Bowie were a Scientist
  3. You Need to Sate Your Thirst with One More Drop
  4. Guest Post: The Gravity Poem
  5. Voters take note: Study shows virtues, not vices, lead to more effective political leadership
  6. Cyber thieves making millions in profits
  7. Faulty bioelectric signal responsible for facial defects caused by rare genetic disorder
  8. Combination drug may help treatment-resistant depression
  9. Our Universe Beats Like a Heart
  10. More Married Women Are Entrepreneurs, But Single Women Lead Entrepreneurial Growth
  11. The universe’s primordial soup flowing at CERN
  12. ‘one of the most important aging discoveries ever’
  13. Blending electric, gas modes in plug-in hybrid vehicles improves efficiency by 12%
  14. You Were Once a Star

January 2016

  1. Is Aging Controlled from the Brain? NPY and ALK5
  2. Rough in Love
  3. Assessing the ethics of CRISPR
  4. HIV protein manipulates hundreds of human genes to advance progression into AIDS
  5. Are We to Blame for What We Risk?
  6. Criticism of Lander reaches mainstream media
  7. Cold but competent: Young whites at elite colleges see Asian-Americans as more competent than other minorities
  8. Asian Carp Eggs Remain in Suspension at Lower Velocities than Previously Thought
  9. Landergate: a link list
  10. A Whig History of CRISPR
  11. Do We Manipulate the Way We Sound?
  12. Cannabis-Based Drug Reduces Seizures in Children With Treatment Resistant Epilepsy
  13. Flowers for Mosquitos
  14. Antibiotics pave way for C. diff infections by killing bile acid-altering bacteria
  15. Infertility treatments do not appear to contribute to developmental delays in children
  16. Traditional Medicaid expansion and ‘private option’ both improve access to health care
  17. Global reductions in mercury emissions should lead to billions in economic benefits for U.S.
  18. Mysterious radio signals from space are much better test of Einstein’s General Relativity

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December 2015

  1. Global Consequences of Increased Human Longevity
  2. Nuclear waste storage sites in rock salt may be more vulnerable than previously thought
  3. With magnesium, researchers create exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
  4. Mothers holding low birth weight newborns skin-to-skin linked with lower mortality rates
  5. New stuff, recent and future
  6. We Know Nothing about Longevity Drug Interactions
  7. Scientists discover rare sea snakes, previously thought extinct, off Western Australia
  8. A Fish Will Not Find Home Before It Dies
  9. Binge drinking with chronic alcohol use more destructive than previously thought
  10. E. Antarctic Ice Sheet has stayed frozen for 14 million years
  11. Hospital prices show ‘mind-boggling’ variation across U.S. driving up health care costs
  12. Forever Blowing Bubbles
  13. Consumer rage on the rise
  14. Psychologists pinpoint change in weight required to look healthier and more attractive
  15. The Machine Gun

November 2015

  1. Scientists get first glimpse of black hole eating star, ejecting high-speed flare
  2. Graphene microphone outperforms traditional nickel and offers ultrasonic reach
  3. Rhythm is Not Just Man’s Conquest
  4. ‘Ecosystem of influence’: Role of corporate funding in climate change discussion
  5. Brainy bird: Pigeons uncommonly good at distinguishing cancerous from normal breast tissue
  6. Soon Their Hunger would be Freed
  7. Anti-Aging Medicine: Two Paths Diverge
  8. Short winter days trigger aggression hormones differently based in males and females
  9. The history of designer babies
  10. Perpetual youth for batteries? Neutrons explain aging process in lithium ion batteries
  11. Earwigs raised without parents demonstrate limited maternal care of their own offspring
  12. Programmable electronic glasses provide children effective, digital lazy eye treatment
  13. After the mammoths: researchers use computer models to learn about ice age survivors
  14. Scientists sniff out female mouse scents that make males frisky​​
  15. So long scrutiny? More than half public data-sets provided with scientific papers are incomplete
  16. Destroyer of Worlds
  17. What counts as fair? Amazon tribe starts to value merit when they learn how to count
  18. How a mutant worm’s reaction to a foul smell could lead to new treatment avenues for disease
  19. Scientists use supercomputer to model plasma turbulence, and solve a 50-year-old mystery
  20. No treatment available for new SARS-like virus that can jump directly from bats to humans
  21. Research points to development of single vaccine for Chikungunya, related viruses​
  22. Leading cause of blindness could be prevented or delayed with repurposed Parkinson’s drug
  23. Does donating blood extend your life expectancy?
  24. Protein findings open new avenues to understanding and treatment of schizophrenia
  25. Vitamin C Halts Growth of Aggressive Forms of Colorectal Cancer in Preclinical Study
  26. As Colourful Explosions Light the Sky
  27. Rat poison at marijuana farms is killing increased numbers of rare forest mammal
  28. National Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month: Improving the Security and Resilience of the Nation’s Grid
  29. As menopause approaches, fluctuating estrogen increases sensitivity to stress, depression
  30. How depressive thoughts persevere, interfere with memory in people with depression
  31. Quiet ‘epidemic’ of drugs, alcohol and suicide has killed half a million middle-aged white Americans
  32. Oil-Based Pesticides Most Effective at Killing Contents of Brown Widow Spider Egg Sacs
  33. New book details the scientific search for a planet — before Albert Einstein halted the quest
  34. Magnetic cell sensors let scientists to track cells and interactions within them
  35. Could self-disseminating vaccines cut off emerging infectious diseases at source?

October 2015

  1. Treatment of severe acne hampered by antibiotic overuse, delays in using stronger meds
  2. 3-​​D printing method for creating patient-​​specific medical devices
  3. Pregnant women in Brooklyn have highest levels of certain preservatives used in cosmetics
  4. ‘Profound’ success in treating blood disorder autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS)
  5. Stanford researchers’ calculations reveal higher-than-expected global economic cost of climate change
  6. DNA as Commodity
  7. First mouse model of spontaneous depression-like episodes shows new candidate brain region
  8. From Roscoff, with Rotifers
  9. Bubble plumes off Washington, Oregon suggest warmer ocean may be releasing frozen methane
  10. Can Botanicals Replace Metformin?
  11. ​In females, childhood head injury could lead to alcohol abuse later in life
  12. Clues to future of undersea exploration may reside inside a jellyfish-like creature
  13. It’s Pinxploitation Month!
  14. Race a key factor in which homeowners made money in up-and-down 2000s housing market
  15. Drug pushers beware
  16. Brain prosthesis aims to provide breakthrough for people struggling with memory loss
  17. Treating 5 percent of hepatitis C patients with new drugs would cut cost, infections

September 2015

  1. Cryogenic system freezes up to 99% of CO2 emissions from coal power plants so carbon can be stored, potentially repurposed
  2. Our brain’s secrets to success? Support system promotes cortex growth, connectivity linked to prowess
  3. Growth & Aging; Creatine & Health
  4. New precise particle measurement improves subatomic tool for probing mysteries of universe
  5. Earth-like planets around small stars likely have protective magnetic fields, aiding chance for life
  6. Cancer diagnosis while pregnant should not lead to treatment delay or end of pregnancy
  7. Ice samples from Greenland and Russia provide clues to past and future climate change
  8. Multi-gene test enables some breast cancer patients to safely avoid chemotherapy
  9. Promise of Novel Alzheimer’s Treatments
  10. Inflammation may worsen fats’ role in obesity diseases
  11. Poor Richard Dawkins’ Almanack
  12. From Vulcan salute to papal blessing: Ulnar nerve damage caused original benediction sign
  13. Exclusive: Interview with Dick Dorkins
  14. Untested Treatments for Longevity, and How to Test Them
  15. Top 10 Things I Learned From Reviewing Richard Dawkins
  16. Through a candle, darkly
  17. HGH and IGF–Promise and Danger

August 2015

  1. Report from Rejuvenation Biotech Conference
  2. Major Innovation in Molecular Imaging Delivers Spatial and Spectral Info Simultaneously
  3. Recipe For ‘Sandwiching’ Atomic Layers Expands Possibilities For Making Materials That Store Energy
  4. Setting prices centrally, w/optimization yields higher profits than local pricing: INFORMS
  5. The Firefly’s Sex Life Has Been Upset
  6. Orcas and Elephants–Aging and the Taboo Subject of Population Regulation
  7. The Mystery of Aging, Solved at Last!

July 2015

  1. Free fitness iPhone apps fail to meet American College of Sports Medicine exercise guidelines
  2. Funding Policies Distort Science
  3. Vulvaluv! Wearable tech…for her
  4. CRISPR and eugenics? Hope, hype, and history
  5. Arctic Nations Sign Declaration to Prevent Unregulated Fishing in the Central Arctic Ocean
  6. Gut Microbes Enable Coffee Pest to Withstand Extremely Toxic Concentrations of Caffeine
  7. Unsafe newborn sleep influenced by grandmas and family traditions
  8. Aging in Microbes
  9. Fasting-Mimicking Diet – A Disclaimer
  10. Can anything be done about Parkinson’s Disease?
  11. Army researcher invents new ways for intelligence analysts to visualize, interact with information

June 2015

  1. One Week, Two Innovations in Aging and Health
  2. Hope, hype, and $$$ in precision medicine
  3. Correlation and Causation–Nuts and Chocolate
  4. Dreams of a Pill to Enable Regeneration
  5. Severely impaired stroke survivors regain arm function after intensive physical therapy
  6. Low birth rates can actually pay off in the U.S. and other countries
  7. Is there an Aging Clock in the Hypothalamus?
  8. TH, PUA
  9. Researchers Boost Body’s Inflammation-Reduction Mechanism to Combat Obesity-Fueled Disease
  10. Soft robotic glove could loss of hand motor control from muscular dystrophy, ALS, or spinal cord injury
  11. Preserving Insulin Sensitivity
  12. Global Water-pricing Practices Suggest Possible Approaches to Managing California Water Scarcity
  13. Cheetah learns to jump

May 2015

  1. Zoltan Istvan: The Political Philosophy and Radical Science of the Transhumanist Who Would Be President
  2. Vital Questions, Part 3
  3. GDF11—Not So Fast
  4. Vital Questions, Part 2
  5. Pterostilbene
  6. Live liquid bacteria Symprove reduces intestinal inflammation in ulcerative colitis
  7. Random nanowire configurations increase conductivity over heavily ordered configurations
  8. An early use of the term “precision medicine”
  9. Vital Questions — A Book Review
  10. Tweaking the beak: Retracing the bird’s beak to its dinosaur origins, in the laboratory
  11. Advanced viral gene therapy eradicates prostate cancer in preclinical experiments
  12. Saving the digital record: Harvard Library safeguards material stored on obsolete formats
  13. NIH study solves ovarian cell mystery, shedding new light on reproductive disorders
  14. Study reveals why almost half of patients opt out of comprehensive cancer testing
  15. Hyper-accurate GPS system could transform virtual reality, mobile devices
  16. Making sense of smell: Will bio-inspired robots sniff out bombs, drugs and disease?

April 2015

  1. No Hogwarts invitation required: Invisibility cloaks move into the real-life classroom
  2. Tales teeth can tell: Enamel shows surprising migration in ancient Indus civilizations
  3. Two-Mile-Long Ice Core Shows Transmitted Climate Changes from the Arctic to the Antarctic
  4. We are the 98%
  5. Living in the third person: this memory glitch affects healthy, high-functioning people
  6. Large New Survey Tracks Telomere Length and Mortality
  7. Quantum particles at play: Game theory elucidates the collective behavior of bosons
  8. Rubber from dandelions: Scientists identify key components in the formation of rubber
  9. Stanford and UC Berkeley partner on NASA’s new effort to detect life on other planets
  10. Stegosaurus plates provide first solid evidence that male, female dinosaurs looked different
  11. Are hospitals doing all they can to prevent C. diff infections? Not yet, new study finds
  12. Telomerase does Not Cause Cancer
  13. Planet-sized ‘virtual telescope’ expands to the South Pole to observe black holes in detail
  14. Human Organ Regeneration through Gene Manipulation
  15. Should they stay or go? Study finds no harm when hospitals allow familes to observe CPR
  16. Scientists use brain stimulation to boost creativity, set stage to treat depression
  17. Adverse childhood events appear to increase the risk of being a hypertensive adult
  18. Search for advanced civilizations beyond Earth finds nothing obvious in 100,000 galaxies
  19. Reasons behind an increase in female genital cosmetic surgery in Australia and the UK
  20. Magnesium
  21. Electrical control of quantum bits in silicon paves the way to large quantum computers
  22. Brave Old World
  23. EPA, NASA, NOAA and USGS Creating Early Warning System to Detect Harmful Algal Blooms
  24. Professor of Astro-what?
  25. Novel therapeutic procedure helps stroke patient recover three-dimensional vision
  26. Metformin, resveratrol target the gut to lower blood sugar — in obese or diabetic rats
  27. Studies find $1 test using gold nanoparticles outperforms PSA screen for prostate cancer
  28. Major New Research Project to Study How Tropical Forests Worldwide Respond to Climate Change
  29. Circulating tumor DNA in blood can predict recurrence of the most common type of lymphoma
  30. Type II Diabetes Patients Gain Weight While Taking Common Medication, And Researchers Know Why
  31. “Fascist Park” Recreates Thrills of Tyranny’s Golden Age

March 2015

  1. Fertility is Kaput, but Life Goes On
  2. Love the cook, love the food: Attraction to comfort food linked to positive social connections
  3. Air Pollutants During Pregnancy Can Damage Child’s Brain, Up Risk of Cognitive, Behavioral Problems
  4. Mayo Clinic study of thousands of brains reveals tau as driver of Alzheimer’s disease
  5. Child with autism improves with antibiotic; prompts new investigations into autism
  6. National Science Foundation announces plan for comprehensive public access to research results
  7. Tomorrow’s Anti-Aging Therapy, Available Today
  8. Scientists discover how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells
  9. Blood pressure drug protects against symptoms of multiple sclerosis in animal models
  10. Listening to classical music modulates genes that are responsible for brain functions
  11. Kill Senescent Cells Before They Kill You
  12. New evidence that increasing economic inequality rises out of political partisanship
  13. Nearly 70 percent of evangelicals do not view religion, science as being in conflict
  14. Raising minimum age to buy cigarettes to at least 21 would reduce smoking and save lives
  15. An injectable polymer could keep soldiers, trauma patients from bleeding to death
  16. First look at hospitalized Ebola survivors’ immune cells could guide vaccine design
  17. Millions of modern men found to be descendants of 11 Asian dynastic leaders, including Genghis Khan
  18. “What Looks Like Cooperation is Really Selfishness”
  19. Grand tree of life study shows a clock-like trend in new species emergence, diversity
  20. Time to ‘just say no’ to behavior-calming drugs for Alzheimer patients? Experts say yes

February 2015

  1. Ideology is Holding Back Aging Research
  2. Safety and life-saving efficacy of statins have been exaggerated, says USF scientist
  3. Fearless birds and shrinking salmon: Is urbanization pushing Earth’s evolution to a tipping point?
  4. Tweeting the life of the mind
  5. Anti-Aging Pills in the News
  6. ‘Microfluidics’ enables production of ‘shape-controllable microgels’ sought for medicine, research
  7. Do we really need epidemiology to tell us to get off our duffs?
  8. Simple strategies lead to improvements in 1 year-olds at risk for autism
  9. Peptide shows promise in penetrating heart attack scar tissue to regenerate cardiac nerves

January 2015

  1. MYC: Bad and Good, but More Bad than Good
  2. Scientists find drug candidates can block cell-death pathway associated with Parkinson’s
  3. Programmed Death, H. pylori, and the Legacy of George Williams
  4. Human Theome Project
  5. What is Aging? Most Scientists Still Get it Wrong

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