|  Cell powerhouses shape one's risk of heart disease  | Genes in mitochondria, the "powerhouses" that turn sugar into energy in human cells, shape each person's risk for heart disease and diabetes. | Read More » New gut bacterium discovered in termite's digestion of wood  | When termites munch on wood, the small bits feed a community of microbes living in their guts. In a process called acetogenesis, some of these microbes turn the hard, fibrous material into a nutritious meal for the termite host. Researchers have now discovered a previously unidentified bacterium -- living on the surface of a larger microorganism in the gut -- that may be responsible for most gut acetogenesis. | Read More » Yoga in menopause may help insomnia -- but not hot flashes  | Taking a 12-week yoga class and practicing at home was linked to less insomnia -- but not to fewer or less bothersome hot flashes or night sweats. The link between yoga and better sleep was the only statistically significant finding in this randomized controlled trial. | Read More » Survival after cancer diagnosis strongly associated with governments spending on health care  | The more an EU (European Union) national government spends on health, the fewer the deaths after a cancer diagnosis in that country, according to new research. | Read More » Telecommuting Can Be Beneficial for a Work/Life Balance  | If telecommuting – or working from home – is an available option, one expert says its perks go beyond working in pajamas. | Read More » SUNRISE offers new insight on sun's atmosphere  | Three months after the flight of the solar observatory Sunrise -- carried aloft by a NASA scientific balloon in early June 2013 -- scientists have presented unique insights into a layer on the sun called the chromosphere. Sunrise provided the highest-resolution images to date in ultraviolet light of this thin corrugated layer, which lies between the sun's visible surface and the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona. | Read More » First step to reduce plant need for nitrogen fertilizer uncovered  | Nitrogen fertilizer costs US farmers approximately $8 billion each year, and excess fertilizer can find its way into rivers and streams, damaging the delicate water systems. A new discovery could be the first step toward helping crops use less nitrogen, benefiting both farmers' bottom lines and the environment. | Read More » New biological agent to fight invasive weed  | Entomologists reached a milestone in their efforts to control the invasive weed swallow-wort this month with the first release of a biological agent to fight the pest. | Read More » Accelerator on a chip: Technology could spawn new generations of smaller, less expensive devices for science, medicine  | In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology in a nanostructured glass chip smaller than a grain of rice. | Read More » New species of fascinating opportunistic shelter using leaf beetles  | Builders are rather uncommon among adult leaf beetles though young ones of certain species use own feces to construct a defensive shield. Two closely related, hitherto unknown species of tiny southern Indian leaf beetles, only slightly larger than the size of a pin-head, and their clever way of using and modifying low cost shelters, have now been described. | Read More » 3-D models of electrical streamers  | Scientists have developed an accurate 3-D model of streamer propagation that qualitatively and quantitatively describes the streamer development, an advance that may impact applications such as medical imaging, aerospace engineering, power transmission, atmospheric sensing, natural sciences, sensing technologies and large-scale industry. | Read More » Bright, laser-based lighting devices  | Scientists have devised an alternative means of creating high-power white light by using a different excitation source -- a laser diode in combination with inorganic phosphors, instead of the traditional LEDs. | Read More » Ballet dancers' brains adapt to stop them getting in a spin  | Scientists have discovered differences in the brain structure of ballet dancers that may help them avoid feeling dizzy when they perform pirouettes. | Read More » | |
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