Scientists chase mystery of how dogs process words

Experimental results suggest that dogs have at least a rudimentary neural representation of meaning for words…

New smart watch algorithms can help identify why you are sleeping poorly

New algorithms take advantage of multiple smart watch sensors to accurately monitor wearers' sleep patterns. As…

Finding better drug ‘fits,’ avoiding medication tragedies like thalidomide

Researchers, including chemistry professor and Nobel Prize winner Ei-ichi Negishi, have developed technology to create a…

Discovery of an atomic electronic simulator

Targeting applications like neural networks for machine learning, a new discovery is paving the way for…

how climate change could cause global beer shortages

Severe climate events could cause shortages in the global beer supply, according to new research. The…

New interactive scenario explorer for 1.5 degrees C pathways

IIASA and the Integrated Assessment Modeling Consortium (IAMC) have made the scenarios underlying last week's Intergovernmental…

Tracking the movement of the tropics 800 years into the past

For the first time, scientists have traced the north-south shifts of the northern-most edge of the…

The state of the early universe: The beginning was fluid

Scientists recently collided Xenon nuclei, in order to gain new insights into the properties of the…

People ordered into mental health care less likely to perceive it as helpful

A new study finds that people who independently seek mental health care are more likely to…

Security vulnerabilities in terahertz data links

Scientists have assumed that future terahertz data links would have an inherent immunity to eavesdropping, but…