| Ancient Egyptian leader makes surprise appearance at archaeological dig in Israel  | As modern Egypt searches for a new leader, Israeli archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient Egyptian leader in northern Israel. At a site in Tel Hazor National Park, north of the Sea of Galilee, archeologists have unearthed part of a unique Sphinx belonging to one of the ancient pyramid-building pharaohs. | Read More »  'Scent device' could help detect bladder cancer  | Researchers in the United Kingdom have built a device that can read odors in urine to help diagnose patients with early signs of bladder cancer. | Read More » Irregular bed times curb young kids' brain power: And may have knock-on effects on health throughout life  | Going to bed at different times every night throughout early childhood seems to curb children's brain power, finds a large, long term study. | Read More » Health-related website search information may be leaked to third-party tracking entities  | Patients who search on free health-related websites for information related to a medical condition may have the health information they provide leaked to third party tracking entities through code on those websites, according to new research. | Read More » Seizures late in life may be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease  | Patients with epilepsy who had amnestic mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer's disease presented earlier with cognitive decline than patients who did not have epilepsy, according to a new report. | Read More » Improved interpretation of volcanic traces in ice  | How severely have volcanoes contaminated the atmosphere with sulfur particles in past millennia? To answer this question, scientists use ice cores, among others, as climate archives. Atmospheric scientists have now modeled the global distribution of sulfur particles following large eruptions. The study could significantly improve the interpretation of ice cores. | Read More » Putting the right worker in the right job  | A new study suggests that if an employee's personality doesn't fit the job requirements, he or she will not be motivated by external factors. | Read More » Clues from an ancient Viking trading centre: A tantalizing hint of an ancient trading town  | It was a routine archaeological dig, necessitated by the expansion of Norway's main north-south highway, the E6, just north of Trondheim, the country's third largest city. But the finds surprised archaeologists, who now believe they have solved a centuries-old puzzle posed in Norse sagas. | Read More » School policies reduce student drinking –- if they're perceived to be enforced  | Anti-alcohol policies on middle and high school campuses do work, but only if students believe they will be enforced. Harsh punishment doesn't deter drinking, but counseling does. | Read More » Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted  | Wildfires produce a witch's brew of carbon-containing particles, as anyone downwind of a forest fire can attest. But measurements taken during the 2011 Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos National Laboratory show that the actual carbon-containing particles emitted by fires are very different than those used in current computer models, providing the potential for inaccuracy in current climate-modeling results. | Read More » Dip, dip, hooray -- Kids eat more veggies with flavored dips  | Many parents have a difficult time persuading their preschool-aged children to try vegetables, let alone eat them regularly. Food and nutrition researchers have found that by offering a dip flavored with spices, children were more likely to try vegetables -- including those they had previously rejected. | Read More » Chemical/bioengineers use adhesion to combine advantages of silicones and organic materials  | Bioengineers have found a way to strongly adhere hydrogels to hydrophobic silicone substrates, an innovation that provides a valuable new tool for microscale biotechnology. | Read More » Chemistry riddle solved  | Chemists have explained the structure of a non-classical carbocation. They have captured the 2-norbornyl cation as a crystal and determining beyond doubt the structure of this unusual and instable carbon compound. The 2-norbornyl cation is a non-classical carbocation, a molecule with a positively charged carbon atom that enters into five instead of three bonds with other atoms. | Read More » Outdated practice of annual cervical-cancer screenings may cause more harm than good  | For decades, women between the ages of 21 and 69 were advised to get annual screening exams for cervical cancer. In 2009, however, accumulating scientific evidence led major guideline groups to agree on a new recommendation that women be screened less frequently: every three years rather than annually. | Read More » Tiny new catfish species found in Rio Paraíba do Sul basin, Brazil  | A new diminutive species of catfish was found in Rio Paraíba do Sul basin in Brazil. The genus to which the new Pareiorhina hyptiorhachis belongs represents a group of species endemic to Brazil. Although the new species is only around 3 cm in length it is still larger than the smallest catfish that is only 1 cm when sexually mature. | Read More » Novel nanoparticle delivers powerful RNA interference drugs  | Silencing genes that have malfunctioned is an important approach for treating diseases such as cancer and heart disease. One effective approach is to deliver drugs made from small molecules of ribonucleic acid, or RNA, which are used to inhibit gene expression. The drugs, in essence, mimic a natural process called RNA interference. | Read More » Contaminated ultrasound gel tied to outbreak of healthcare-associated infections  | After a 2011 outbreak of P. aeruginosa, investigators determined contaminated ultrasound gel was the source of bacteria causing the healthcare-associated infection. The findings emphasize the need for increased scrutiny of contaminated medical products. | Read More » Your primary school language reveals if you move away or stay behind  | The way you speak in primary school reveals if you will stay behind in your native part of the country or head for the big city to get an education, according to new research. | Read More » Space-time is not the same for everyone  | Before the Big Bang, space-time as we know it did not exist. So how was it born? The process of creating normal space-time from an earlier state dominated by quantum gravity has been studied for years. Recent analyses suggest a surprising conclusion: not all elementary particles are subject to the same space-time. | Read More » Suspicions confirmed: Brain tumors in children have a common cause  | An overactive signaling pathway is a common cause in cases of pilocytic astrocytoma, the most frequent type of brain cancer in children. In all 96 cases studied, researchers found defects in genes involved in a particular pathway. Hence, drugs can be used to help affected children by blocking components of the signaling cascade. | Read More » Evolution too slow to keep up with climate change  | Many vertebrate species would have to evolve about 10,000 times faster than they have in the past to adapt to the rapid climate change expected in the next 100 years, a new study has found. | Read More » Losing weight over the phone  | Weight loss interventions delivered via conference calls by primary care provider staff are effective, according to new research. An intensive lifestyle intervention, proven to help people lose weight to prevent diabetes, also works in primary care when delivered over the telephone to obese patients with metabolic syndrome. Group telephone sessions appear to be particularly effective for greater weight loss. | Read More » Live from the hen's egg  | Like a contortionist, twisted the chick is lying in its eggshell, brain, eyes, and beak visible in levels of grey. In small white circles, the flowing blood of the active chick flashes again and again on the MRI system's monitor. The chick bumps with its head back and forth and finally cracks the eggshell. Scientists have now managed to film the natural embryonic development and hatching of a chicken in real time through MRI. To accomplish this, the researchers scanned fertilized eggs in a clinical MRI system with a unique imaging technique at an acquisition speed of 12 frames per second. | Read More » Astronomers witness birth of Milky Way's most massive star  | Scientists have observed in unprecedented detail the birth of a massive star within a dark cloud core about 10,000 light years from Earth. | Read More » Vascular link in Alzheimer's disease with cognition  | Researchers have found that, across a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, cerebrovascular disease affecting circulation of blood in the brain was significantly associated with dementia. The researchers contend that people already exhibiting clinical features of Alzheimer's disease and other memory impairments may benefit from effective therapies currently available to reduce vascular problems. | Read More » The study of resting brain connections predicts learning ability  | An innovative neurocognitive study shows that the individual variability that exists in brain connections affects people's learning ability and, in turn, the learning process produces a change in brain networks associated with the trained areas. | Read More » Big name for a small worm  | Biologists have named a newly discovered nematode after a German Nobel laureate. | Read More » Researchers identify specific fetal antigens attacked by maternal antibodies  | Researchers have identified the specific antibodies that target fetal brain proteins in the blood of a subset of women whose children are diagnosed with autism. The finding is the first to pinpoint a specific risk factor for a significant subset of autism cases, as well as a biomarker for drug development and early diagnosis. The researchers have named autism related to these antibodies "Maternal Autoantibody-Related," or MAR autism. | Read More » Exposure to maternal antibodies affects behavior, researchers find  | Researchers have found that prenatal exposure to specific combinations of antibodies found only in mothers of children with autism leads to changes in the brain that adversely affect behavior and development. | Read More » Bat that sings like a bird is highly tuned to social circumstance  | New research shows that Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) vary the way elements are combined in their songs (i.e. syntax) in response to different social contexts, which is exceedingly rare among non-human mammals. | Read More » Nanomaterial to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions  | Researchers have developed a new nanomaterial that could help reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power stations. | Read More » Huge iceberg breaks away from the Pine Island glacier in the Antarctic  | On July 8, 2013, a huge area of the ice shelf broke away from the Pine Island glacier, the longest and fastest flowing glacier in the Antarctic, and is now floating in the Amundsen Sea in the form of a very large iceberg. | Read More » Plain surfaces transformed into low-cost touch screens  | A low cost system, based on the principles of vibration and imaging that is able to track the movements of multiple fingers and of objects, can turn almost any surface into a touch-screen. | Read More » Contribution of Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will continue to increase  | The contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to sea-level rise will continue to increase, experts say. | Read More » Cloud brightening to cool seas can protect coral reefs: Targeted cooling could offer a 50-year 'breathing space' for coral protection  | The seeding of marine clouds to cool sea surface temperatures could protect threatened coral reefs from being bleached by warming oceans. Recent research proposes that a targeted version of the geo-engineering technique could give coral a fifty year 'breathing space' to recover from acidification and warming. | Read More » Jealousy can drive us to view ourselves more like our rivals  | If you see your partner flirt with someone else, you may feel hurt, angry, and jealous. The last thing you might expect is to start thinking of yourself more like your rival. New research suggests just that: that jealousy can prompt people to change how they view themselves relative to competitors for their partners' attention. | Read More » Excessive cerebral spinal fluid and enlarged brain size in infancy are potential biomarkers for autism  | Children who were later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder had excessive cerebrospinal fluid and enlarged brains in infancy, a new study has found, raising the possibility that those brain anomalies may serve as potential biomarkers for the early identification of the neurodevelopmental disorder. | Read More » Where do astronauts go when they need 'to go?'  | The first American man in space had no place "to go," and urinating in space was a tough problem for engineers to solve. A new article discusses the considerations necessary to accommodate this most basic physiological function. | Read More » How early Earth kept warm enough to support life  | Solving the "faint young sun paradox" -- explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than three billion years ago even though the sun was 20 percent dimmer than today -- may not be as difficult as believed, says a new study. | Read More » Don't worry, be healthy: Cheerful people significantly less likely to suffer a coronary event  | People with cheerful temperaments are significantly less likely to suffer a coronary event such as a heart attack or sudden cardiac death, new Johns Hopkins research suggests. | Read More » IBEX spacecraft images the heliotail, revealing an unexpected structure  | NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer spacecraft recently provided the first complete pictures of the solar system's downwind region, revealing a unique and unexpected structure. | Read More » | |
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