• share
• favorite_border

Engineers have invented a lens that enables microscopic objects to be seen from nine different angles at once to create a 3D image.

• share
• favorite_border

In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers found that mobile media technologies such as smart phones aren’t taking people away from relying on traditional media sources such as newspapers or television.

• share
• favorite_border

Scientists have shown that an experimental vaccine against the human norovirus can generate a strong immune response in mice without appearing to cause the animals any harm.

• share
• favorite_border

New research reveals why people read fitness and fashion magazines featuring photos of impossibly thin or muscular models -- models whose appearance highlight the readers’ own flaws.

• share
• favorite_border

A new study in Honduras suggests that climate-related weather disasters may sometimes actually provide opportunities for the rural poor to improve their lives.

• share
• favorite_border

Passive news reporting that doesn’t attempt to resolve factual disputes in politics may have detrimental effects on readers, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Patients with epilepsy worry more than their physicians do about the patients’ potential memory loss accompanying their seizure disorder, according to a recent study.

• share
• favorite_border

Despite the fears of some, a new study suggests that use of the internet in general does not make people more likely to believe political rumors. But e-mail is a special case. However, one form of internet communication – e-mail – does seem to have troubling consequences for the spread and belief of rumors.

• share
• favorite_border

An experimental drug that targets a brain system that controls inflammation might help preserve neurological function in people who survive sudden cardiac arrest, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

New research that reveals how maternal antibodies block an immune response to the measles virus is a first step toward improving current childhood vaccination practices, scientists say.

• share
• favorite_border

The federal anti-drug campaign “Above the Influence” appears to have effectively reduced marijuana use by teenagers, new research shows.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers studying the origin of Earth’s first breathable atmosphere have zeroed in on the major role played by some very unassuming creatures: plankton.

• share
• favorite_border

While many researchers generally credit the desire for smaller families for the decline in fertility rates in developing, low-income countries, new research suggests that prevention of unwanted births may actually be a larger factor.

• share
• favorite_border

Children as young as 5 years old can learn how to use a computer mouse, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Scientists are hoping that heat therapy could eventually replace a complex drug regimen as the first-line treatment of a parasitic skin infection common in tropical and subtropical regions of the world.

• share
• favorite_border

A new alloy promises to lessen welders’ risk of breathing toxic fumes on the job. The alloy is a welding “consumable” – the material that melts under the welder’s torch to fill the gap between parts that are being joined.

• share
• favorite_border

People tend to overestimate the steepness of slopes – and psychologists studying the phenomenon have made a discovery that refutes common ideas about how we perceive inclines in general.

• share
• favorite_border

One factor, little-known by borrowers, can play a large role in whether banks are willing to renegotiate mortgages with homeowners who are struggling to meet payments.

• share
• favorite_border

Many school officials react in exactly the wrong ways when one of their students completes suicide, according to the authors of a new book.

• share
• favorite_border

Government regulators could more realistically assess the value of improving food safety if they considered the fact that consumers typically want to avoid getting sick – even if it means they have to pay a little extra for safer food.

• share
• favorite_border

Parents who share caregiving for their preschool children may experience more conflict than those in which the mother is the primary caregiver, according to a new study.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers recently tested the merits of two new dishware sanitizers, and found them more effective at removing bacteria from restaurant dishes than traditional sanitizers.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers are finding ways to tell the difference between healthy cells and abnormal cells, such as cancer cells, based on the way the cells look and move.

• share
• favorite_border

For troubled war veterans, a friendly bartender can be the source of more than just drinks and a sympathetic ear.

• share
• favorite_border

In a recent survey of pharmacy professors, 100 percent of the respondents who had Facebook profiles said they would not send friend requests to their current students.

• share
• favorite_border

Astronomers who survey galaxies in the distant universe are getting some unexpected help from gravity, according to a new study.

• share
• favorite_border

Young people may crave boosts to their self-esteem a little too much, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Most people like to play it safe when combining colors for an article of clothing or outfit, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

While the nation’s foreclosure crisis has focused blame on bad loan practices by some lenders, new research shows how some banks may have actually reduced the default risk of their homebuyers.

• share
• favorite_border

Even after young women reach adulthood, their mothers can play a key role in convincing them to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

A cat regularly vomiting hairballs or refusing to eat probably isn’t being finicky or otherwise “cat-like,” despite what conventional wisdom might say.

• share
• favorite_border

Nearly one in five whites could carry a genetic variant that substantially increases their odds of being susceptible to severe cocaine abuse, according to new research.

• share
• favorite_border

The language that doctors use with low-income, rural patients can help determine whether these patients agree to participate in clinical trials testing new cancer treatments, a new study found.

• share
• favorite_border

A drug currently approved for osteoporosis treatment has been shown to reduce bone loss in a study of mice with oral cancer, suggesting it could serve as an important supplemental therapy in patients with head and neck cancers that erode bone.

• share
• favorite_border

Researchers have found a new way to gauge the depth of the magma chamber that forms the Hawaiian Island volcanic chain, and determined that the magma lies much closer to the surface than previously thought.

• share
• favorite_border

A preliminary look at an ice field atop the highest mountain in the eastern European Alps suggests that the glacier may hold records of ancient climate extending back as much as a thousand years.

• share
• favorite_border

Physicists have discovered that tiny defects inside a computer chip can be used to tune the properties of key atoms in the chip.

• share
• favorite_border

An intensive, five-week working memory training program shows promise in relieving some of the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we will face the environmental, societal and economic consequences of climate change faster than we can adapt to them.

• share
• favorite_border

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is excluding significant research findings about human threats to protected species, researchers argue, even when the law governing the agency’s actions requires the use of all relevant data in determining whether species need protection from extinction.

• share
• favorite_border

Many U.S. restaurants may be ignoring a desire by American consumers to dine at environmentally friendly restaurants, according to a small exploratory study.

• share
• favorite_border

Exposure to polluted air early in life led to an accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance in mice even if they ate a normal diet, according to new research.

• share
• favorite_border

College students who exhibit narcissistic tendencies are more likely than fellow students to cheat on exams and assignments, a new study shows.

• share
• favorite_border

A spoonful of sugar may be enough to cool a hot temper, at least for a short time, according to new research.

• share
• favorite_border

Residents of the Middle East who are heavy viewers of Arab television news networks like Al Jazeera are more likely to view their primary identity as that of Muslims, rather than as citizens of their own country, a new study suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

Exposure to even dim light at night is enough to cause physical changes in the brains of hamsters that may be associated with depression, a new study shows.

• share
• favorite_border

The spleen, an organ that helps the body fight infections, might also be a source of the cells that end up doing more harm than good at the site of a spinal cord injury, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

If researchers could determine how to send signals to cells responding to a spinal cord injury, they might be able to stop one type of cell from doing additional damage at the injury site and instead, coax it into helping nerve cells grow.

• share
• favorite_border

Depression appears to be associated with a molecular-level disturbance in the body's 24-hour clock, new research suggests.

• share
• favorite_border

New research suggests that the addition of ultraviolet light to the brushing and suction of a vacuum cleaner can almost double the removal of potentially infectious microorganisms from a carpet’s surface when compared to vacuuming alone.