Legal marijuana stores lead to increases in property crime

Legal marijuana shops are linked to higher levels of property crime in nearby areas, according to…

Gender differences in depression appear at age 12

A new analysis has broken new ground by finding gender differences in both symptoms and diagnoses…

Another good year for Chesapeake Bay’s underwater grasses

An annual survey shows the abundance of underwater grasses in Chesapeake Bay increased 8 percent between…

A turbo engine for tracing neurons

Putting a turbo engine into an old car gives it an entirely new life -- suddenly…

A quarter of nursing home residents are colonized with drug-resistant bacteria

The significant presence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB), such as E. coli, among nursing home residents…

Wireless power can drive tiny electronic devices in the GI tract

An ingestible electronic capsule, complete with a capsule-sized antenna capable of receiving a radio signal wirelessly,…

Chemoresistance in breast cancer is related to varying tumor cell populations

Scientists have recreated and characterized the process of acquisition of resistance to chemotherapy in orthotopic animal…

When students pay attention in class, their brains are in sync

When people in a group are engaged with each other and with the world around them,…

The upside of worrying

Worry -- it does a body good. And, the mind as well. A new paper argues…

Mushrooms get defensive

Some mushrooms produce long-chain unsaturated carboxylic acids as their chemical defense against insect larvae. The biosynthesis…