Newly Understood Circuits Add Finesse to Nerve Signals

An unusual kind of circuit fine-tunes the brain’s control over movement and incoming sensory information, and without relying on conventional nerve pathways. The work may provide insight into the design of drugs for autism and movement disorders.

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Understanding the Past and Predicting the Future by Looking Across Space and Time

In a new paper published this week (May 20) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and elsewhere validate a fundamental assumption at the very heart of a popular way to predict relationships between complex variables.

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Research Effort Deep Underground Could Sort Out Cosmic-Scale Mysteries

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun delivery of germanium-76 detectors to an underground laboratory in South Dakota in a team research effort that might explain the puzzling imbalance between matter and antimatter generated by the Big Bang.

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Researcher Evaluates How Playing Surfaces Affect Athletic Performance, Injury Potential

A group of University of Rhode Island students have been jumping up and down for weeks on a variety of playing surfaces in a study to evaluate how each affects athletic performance and injury potential.

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Research Aims for Insecticide That Targets Malaria Mosquitoes

A University of Florida scientist is part of team working toward an insecticide that would target malaria-carrying mosquitoes but do no harm to other organisms.

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Eight New Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs Appointed at Perimeter Institute

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is pleased to announce the appointment of eight more outstanding international scientists as part of its Distinguished Visiting Research Chairs (DVRC) program.

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When Oxygen Is Short, EGFR Prevents Maturation of Cancer-Fighting miRNAs

With tumor suppressors frozen in adolescence, resistant cancer cells cheat death, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in Nature.

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Atomic-Scale Investigations Solve Key Puzzle of LED Efficiency

MIT and Brookhaven Lab scientists use electron microscopy imaging techniques to settle a solid-state controversy and raise new experimental possibilities

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Technion Scientists Develop Advanced Biological Computer

Using only biomolecules, Israeli scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations.

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