Many Parents Still Believe Boys Are Better, More Competitive at Sports Than Girls

Female Olympian handballers fined for playing in shorts instead of bikini bottoms. A female Paralympian told by a championship official that her shorts were "too short and inappropriate." Olympic women gymnasts, tired of feeling sexualized, opted...
27-Jul-2021 3:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Childhood Exposure to Gun Violence Increases Risk of Violent Behavior as Adults

Witnessing gun violence in real life or in fiction can have a mental toll on children. The effects, including using guns themselves, sometimes are seen many years later, according to a new University of Michigan study that tracked individuals during...
20-Jul-2021 10:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Unique Neuron Can Guide Our Way Home by Turning Compasses Into a Gyroscope

Finding our way home from work or school is something most of us take for granted. Persons with Alzheimer's disease, however, can get lost even when moving between such familiar locations and often struggle to find their way home.
28-Jun-2021 10:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Michigan researchers get $5.3M to expand COVID-19 wastewater monitoring

University of Michigan researchers surveying wastewater systems for SARS-COV-2 will be able to increase testing sites and continue monitoring until 2023 after receiving more than $5 million from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
25-Jun-2021 12:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

New protein engineering method could accelerate the discovery of COVID-19 therapeutics

Discovering and engineering nanobodies with properties suitable for treating human diseases ranging from cancer to COVID-19 is a time-consuming, laborious process.
24-Jun-2021 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Common plant fiber gel doubled rate of tumor eradication

Many people don’t realize that the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi residing within the gastrointestinal tract––collectively called the gut microbiome–– are connected to overall health, and specifically to cancer.
24-Jun-2021 11:00 AM EDT Add to Favorites

More Seniors May Have Undiagnosed Dementia Than Previously Thought

Only 1 in 10 older adults in a large national survey who were found to have cognitive impairment consistent with dementia reported a formal medical diagnosis of the condition.
23-Jun-2021 1:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Data Breaches: Most Victims Unaware When Shown Evidence of Multiple Compromised Accounts

It's been nine years since the LinkedIn data breach, eight years since Adobe customers were victims of cyber attackers and four years since Equifax made headlines for the exposure of private information of millions of people.
21-Jun-2021 10:20 AM EDT Add to Favorites