Blind people depend on timing cues for some spatial awareness

It's a popular idea in books and movies that blind people develop super sensitive hearing to…

Case study: Child’s lobectomy reveals brain’s ability to reorganize its visual system

Researchers report on three years of behavioral and brain imaging tests on a nearly seven year-old…

Sex problems among middle-aged Canadians common

Researchers found nearly 40 per cent of women and almost 30 per cent of men between…

Microscale superlubricity could pave way for future improved electromechanical devices

A new study finds that robust superlubricity can be achieved using graphite and hexagonal boron nitride,…

Measure of belly fat in older adults is linked with cognitive impairment

Data from over 5,000 adults over the age of 60 indicates that as waist:hip ratio increases,…

Women seeing baby animals have a reduced appetite for meat

Images of baby animals reduces people's appetite for meat say researchers, who found that the effect…

Distrust of power influences choice of medical procedures

Many individuals prefer to resort to the techniques used in complementary and alternative medicine, even though…

Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells enables efficiency improvements

In perovskite solar cells, charge carriers are mainly lost through recombination occurring at interface defect sites.…

Insight into catalysis through novel study of X-ray absorption spectroscopy

An international team has made a breakthrough at BESSY II. For the first time, they succeeded…

Scientists find holes in light by tying it in knots

Theoretical physicists have found a new way of evaluating how light flows through space -- by…