Applying electric current to nerve for chronic low back pain does not provide clinically important improvement

Treatment of chronic low back pain with radiofrequency denervation, a procedure that can be performed with…

Certain OTC, less expensive hearing aids provide benefit similar to conventional hearing aid

A comparison between less-expensive, over-the-counter hearing assistance devices and a conventional hearing aid found that some…

Artificial bile ducts grown in lab and transplanted into mice could help treat liver disease

Scientists have developed a new method for growing and transplanting artificial bile ducts that could in…

Drug discovery: Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s spurred by same enzyme

Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are different. But at the biochemical level, these two neurodegenerative diseases…

Protecting astronauts from radiation in space

Scientists have designed a new nano material that can reflect or transmit light on demand with…

Greening the city: A measurement for a mindful environment

Scientists have developed the world's first Tranquillity Rating Prediction Tool (TRAPT), a scientific process for measuring…

Wearable electronics: Superstretchable, supercompressible supercapacitors

Flexible, wearable electronics require equally flexible, wearable power sources. Scientists have now introduced an extraordinarily stretchable…

Why research on mice may not work on humans: We really are different

New research could explain why diabetes drugs which have worked in animal experiments are not equally…

New technique ‘sees’ radioactive material even after it’s gone

A new technique allows researchers to characterize nuclear material that was in a location even after…

Making waves: Computer scientists use wave packet theory to develop realistic, detailed water wave simulations in real time

Computer scientists have introduced a novel representation of waves that improves computational efficiency by at least…