Bloggers
Plains of Paradise
The echoes of your past vibrate through space, And secrets lie beneath your broken skin; The cracks and rimless craters on your face, Reveal to us what’s hidden deep within.
Dec 2, 2016
Brain & Behavior
Single dose of hallucinogenic drug psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer
When combined with psychological counseling, a single dose of a mind-altering compound contained in psychedelic mushrooms significantly lessens mental anguish…
Dec 1, 2016
Brain & Behavior
Authoritarian regimes use rhetoric to legitimize their power, despite no progress with democracy
Leaders of authoritarian regimes in Central Asia have been able to use rhetoric to define their power as legitimate to the public despite practices of human…
Nov 30, 2016
Brain & Behavior
Bad timing is depressing: Disrupting the brain's internal clock causes depressive-like behavior in mice
Disruptions of daily rhythms of the body's master internal clock cause depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in mice, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry.
Nov 29, 2016
Bloggers
Novel silicon etching technique crafts 3D gradient refractive index micro-optics
A multi-institutional research collaboration has created a novel approach for fabricating three-dimensional micro-optics through the shape-defined formation of porous silicon (PSi), with broad impacts in integrated optoelectronics, imaging, and photovoltaics.
Nov 28, 2016
Brain & Behavior
Wives with a Romantic View of Marriage Are Less Likely to Volunteer and May Lead Husbands to Volunteer Less, Too
Wives with a romantic view of marriage are less likely to do volunteer work, leading their husbands to volunteer less as well.
Nov 28, 2016
Physics
$4.7 million to better harness large data for social, behavioral, economic sciences research
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded 15 grants totaling $4.7 million to further develop user-friendly, next-generation data resources that can help advance research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences.
Nov 25, 2016
Bloggers
A Circle of Life
This is a shape poem, inspired by recent research that found the roundest object ever observed in nature to be a distant star called Kepler 11145123.…
Nov 25, 2016
Health
Aspartame may prevent, not promote, weight loss by blocking intestinal enzyme's activity
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found a possible mechanism explaining why use of the sugar substitute aspartame might not promote weight loss.
Nov 22, 2016
Earth & Environment
The Heart of the Storm
Katrina gave her rage and wrath, Spat out a city frail and blind; Those who survived were shown no path, And broken hearts were left behind.
Nov 17, 2016
Bloggers
Machine-learning discovery and design of membrane active peptides for biomedicine
There are approximately 1.100 known antimicrobial peptides (AMP) with diverse sequences that can permeate microbial membranes.
Nov 15, 2016
Bloggers
Subterranean Homesick Fish
In deep dark ponds you gently glide, You made this cave your place to hide; Blessed with neither scales nor sight, You struggle blindly in the light.
Nov 10, 2016
Health
Research on new, rapid screening test identifies potential therapies against drug-resistant bacteria
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), Clinical Center and National Institute of…
Nov 10, 2016
Earth & Environment
Physicist unlocks easier way to observe peculiar particles that reveal the inner workings of the sun
In 2009, applied physicist Peter Sturrock was visiting the National Solar Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, when the deputy director of the observatory told him he should read a controversial article about radioactive decay.
Nov 9, 2016