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Changing Arctic: What Should Be Done?
May 21, 2013 — In two critical reports released at the Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in Kiruna, Sweden on May 15th, scientists helped inform an international body of senior government officials about changing ... > full story -
Visual Search Function: Where Scene Context Happens in Our Brain
May 21, 2013 — Though a seemingly simple and intuitive strategy, visual search function -- a process that takes mere seconds for the human brain -- is still something that a computer can't do as accurately. Over ... > full story -
Insight Into the Dazzling Impact of Insulin in Cells
May 21, 2013 — Australian scientists have charted the path of insulin action in cells in precise detail like never before. This provides a comprehensive blueprint for understanding what goes wrong in ... > full story -
Child Maltreatment Increases Risk of Adult Obesity
May 21, 2013 — Children who have suffered maltreatment are 36 percent more likely to be obese in adulthood compared to non-maltreated children, according to a new study. The authors estimate that the prevention or ... > full story -
Doctors Prescribe More Analgesics to Women Than to Men Just for Being Female, Spanish Study Shows
May 21, 2013 — Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A new study affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between ... > full story -
New Tumor-Killer Shows Great Promise in Suppressing Cancers
May 21, 2013 — Scientists have bioengineered a novel molecule which has been proven to successfully kill tumor ... > full story -
New Factor to Control Oncogene-Induced Senescence Discovered
May 21, 2013 — A new article describes the major role that Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) —- an enzyme of cellular energy metabolism -— plays in the regulation of the cellular senescence induced by the ... > full story -
Cancer and Birth Defects in Iraq: The Nuclear Legacy
May 21, 2013 — Ten years after the Iraq war of 2003 a team of scientists based in Mosul, northern Iraq, have detected high levels of uranium contamination in soil samples at three sites in the province of Nineveh ... > full story -
Observations of Stellar Visibility by Citizen Scientists Accurately Measure the Brightness of the Night Sky
May 21, 2013 — Observations of stellar visibility by citizen scientists accurately measure the brightness of the night sky. The researchers hope that such data can eventually be used to track changes in artificial ... > full story -
Clouds in the Head: New Model of Brain's Thought Processes
May 21, 2013 — A new model of the brain's thought processes explains the apparently chaotic activity patterns of individual neurons. They do not correspond to a simple stimulus/response linkage, but arise from the ... > full story
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