Meet Hugo: GHGSat Reveals the Name of its Third Emissions Monitoring Satellite

GHGSat, a private company which owns and operates the world’s first and only satellite designed to…

Parent and sibling attitudes among top influences on teenage e-cigarette use

Flavor, safety and family attitude toward vaping are among the greatest factors influencing teenage perception of…

Skin-cells-turned-to-heart-cells help unravel genetic underpinnings of cardiac function

A small genetic study identified a protein linked to many genetic variants that affect heart function.…

Simple cardiac risk score can predict problems with blood flow in the brain

The study shows that for those participants who do not have a history of heart disease…

High wealth inequality linked with greater support for populist leaders

People who live or think they live in a more economically unequal society may be more…

How nasty Toxoplasma parasite damages the human eye

An international study used human retinal cells to demonstrate how the Toxoplasma parasite creates a characteristic…

Delivery system can make RNA vaccines more powerful

MIT chemical engineers have developed a new type of lipid nanoparticle that can be used to…

Underwater manatee chatter may aid in their conservation

Scientists propose a new method for calculating populations of the Antillean manatee, a marine mammal in…

Is this brain cell your 'mind's eye'?

No-one knows what connects awareness — the state of consciousness — with its contents, i.e. thoughts…

Cooking food alters the microbiome

Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both…