Women suffer from asthma symptoms more frequently and more severely than men

Women suffer more frequently and more severely from pollen and food allergies and therefore also from…

Safer to ride in yellow taxis

A new study has found an explicit link between a taxi’s color and its accident rate,…

Nothing fishy about new solution for aquaculture wastewater treatment

Aquaculture, or fish farming, is one of the fastest growing sectors of agriculture in the world…

Researchers create new tool that measures active learning in classrooms

A new tool that uses classroom sounds may solve the biggest outstanding question in undergraduate science…

Proper movements in Muslim prayer ritual can reduce lower back pain

Five times a day, roughly 1.6 billion Muslims worldwide, bow, kneel, and place their foreheads to…

Unique protein partly to blame for worm’s digestive distress

A fusion protein unique to the Orsay virus that disrupts the digestive system of only one…

One in 5 residents overuses electricity at neighbors’ expense

Household electricity use falls by more than 30 percent when residents are obliged to pay for…

Modern hunter-gathers relocate to maximize foraging efficiency, study finds

As bumblebees forage for nectar, at a certain point, they will move to another area once…

Cargo-carrying red blood cells alleviate autoimmune diseases in mice

Using red blood cells modified to carry disease-specific antigens, a team of scientists have prevented and…

Skin testing, computerized support tool can improve antibiotic use in hospital inpatients

Investigators have developed two approaches to increasing the use of penicillins and cephalosporins -- highly effective…