Nano-SPEARs gently measure electrical signals in small animals

Microscopic probes simplify the process of measuring electrical activity in the cells of small living animals.…

Researchers working toward indoor location detection

Computer scientists are mapping a new solution for interior navigational location detection by linking it to…

New insight into dark matter halos

Researchers used the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to find evidence that the dark matter halos surrounding…

Study offers hope, sheds light on how vets respond to trauma

A new study of military veterans who went through trauma finds that those veterans who have…

Zika RNA now found in a second mosquito species

Zika RNA has now been found in Aedes albopictus. That’s not the species -- known as…

Parents struggle with choosing allergy medicine for their children

Dosing, labeling and a seemingly endless range of allergy medication options can make picking the right…

Physicists create ‘negative mass’

Physicists have created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like. Push…

Repeating non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the syntactic priming effect

Repetition of non-verbs as well as verbs can boost the effect of syntactic priming, i.e. the…

Think brain games make you smarter? Think again, researchers say

Brain games marketed by the billion-dollar brain-training industry don't improve cognition or help prevent age-related brain…

Powered stretchers could reduce injuries, keep paramedics on the job

Moving from manual to powered stretchers could reduce the number of injuries to paramedics by 78…