New test diagnoses Lyme disease within 15 minutes

Current testing for Lyme disease, called the standard 2-tiered approach or the STT, involves running two…

Under time pressure, people tell us what we want to hear

When asked to answer questions quickly and impulsively, people tend to respond with a socially desirable…

Overweight before age 40 increases the cancer risk

The risk of cancer increases considerably if you gain weight before the age of 40. …

Habitual tea drinking modulates brain efficiency: Evidence from brain connectivity evaluation

The researchers recruited healthy older participants to two groups according to their history of tea drinking…

Alexei Leonov, first human to walk in space, dies at 85

Alexei Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space in 1965, died on Friday…

Overcoming the blood-brain-barrier: Delivering therapeutics to the brain

For the first time, scientists have identified a simple way that can effectively transport medication into…

Physics: DNA-PAINT super-resolution microscopy at speed

Recent advances in fluorescence microscopy allow researchers to study biological processes below the classical diffraction limit…

Illumination of abnormal neuronal activities caused by myelin impairment

The neural circuit basis for motor learning tasks when myelination is impaired has been illuminated for…

Liquid metals the secret ingredients to clean up environment

Liquid metal catalysts show great promise for capturing carbon and cleaning up pollutants, requiring so little…

Physics: An ultrafast glimpse of the photochemistry of the atmosphere

Researchers have explored the initial consequences of the interaction of light with molecules on the surface…