Health
Researchers Examine the Relationship Between Drug Injection Risk Behaviors and Immune Activation
The use of heroin and other illicit drugs has been shown to trigger a response from the body’s immune system.
Apr 13, 2017
Technology
Robots could share information as they move around, conducting surveillance as a single entity with many eyes
Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around, and if necessary, interpret what they see.
Apr 12, 2017
Bloggers
Monkeys in glass tubes and rats on rolling rods are not the answer for early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in people.
World Parkinson’s Day (April 11th) aims to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease and the desperate need for effective new treatments.
Apr 9, 2017
Health
Hair Testing Shows High Prevalence of New Psychoactive Substance Use among NYC Nightclub Attendees
The sample collection in New York was funded by the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR—P30 DA011041). J.
Apr 4, 2017
Health
Electric hookah heating pads could be worse than charcoal for health
Hookah-tobacco users might want to rethink how they heat up their water pipes, based on research by chemists at the University of Cincinnati.
Apr 3, 2017
Health
Researchers Find New Genetic Links Underlying Progressively Blinding Eye Disease
Corneal diseases are among the most common causes of visual impairment and blindness, with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy (FECD), a gradual swelling and clouding of the cornea, being the most common reason for eventual corneal transplants.
Mar 31, 2017
Bloggers
Translucent Vessels
Vessels Running beneath my skin – Like the network Of a tightly-knit Urban sprawl.
Mar 30, 2017
Brain & Behavior
Costly Curves: New study shows exposure to certain shapes influences personal spending
A new study from Colorado State University shows how exposure to certain human-like shapes can affect consumer spending.
Mar 28, 2017
Bloggers
We’ve discovered the most likely cause of cancer…and apparently it’s NOT bacon (Thank God).
Driver mutation origin in Cancer Figure. I am obsessed with not getting cancer. I don’t smoke; I avoid deli meats.
Mar 24, 2017
Health
Study confirms prescription weight-loss medication helps with opiate addiction recovery
Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have confirmed that a prescription weight-loss pill decreases the urge to use opiates such as oxycodone.
Mar 24, 2017
Bloggers
Echoes in the Dunes
From nothing came a burst of blinding light, With waves that trickled out to every shore; For eons, they were hidden out of sight, Just shimmers of some swift cosmic encore.
Mar 24, 2017
Earth & Environment
Evidence disproving tropical ‘thermostat’ theory: Global warming can breach limits for life
New research findings show that as the world warmed millions of years ago, conditions in the tropics may have made it so hot some organisms couldn’t survive.
Mar 20, 2017
Bloggers
A Disappearing Shadow
Dappled silhouettes amongst the trees – A lost memory of verdant lands. Your fragmented impressions Have disappeared from view; All that remains is An empty shell Which one day Too will Fade.
Mar 17, 2017
Bloggers
Parity-time symmetry breaking in an electrically injected, room temperature VCSEL array demonstrated for the first time
A team of University of Illinois researchers at the Micro + Nanotechnology Lab recently applied new theoretical physics concepts to enhance the performance of a well-established semiconductor laser technology.
Mar 13, 2017