Young people with cognitive impairments and developmental disabilities, including Down syndrome, have similar weight-loss trajectories to…
A specific gene could play a major role in reducing brain swelling after stroke
Inflammation gone awry in the brain due to stroke, head injury or infection causes damage; in…
‘Snowball chamber’ helps researchers use supercooled water to search for dark matter
After watching YouTube videos of people supercooling water in a bottle and then triggering it to…
The discrete-time physics hiding inside our continuous-time world
Physicists have shown that Markov processes, widely used to model complex systems, must unfold over a…
Celebrity fat shaming has ripple effects on women’s implicit anti-fat attitudes
Comparing 20 instances of celebrity fat-shaming with women's implicit attitudes about weight before and after the…
No more Hoover dams: Hydropowered countries suffer higher levels of poverty, corruption and debt
Countries relying on the world's biggest and most established source of renewable electricity have seen their…
Abundance of information narrows our collective attention span
A new study finds increasingly narrow peaks of collective attention over time, supporting a 'social acceleration'…
Developing a vaccine against Nipah virus
Researchers developed a novel recombinant vaccine called NIPRAB that shows robust immunization against Nipah virus in…
Do songbirds pay a price for winter wandering?
During harsh winters, birds that eat conifer seeds sometimes leave their homes in northern forests and…
FDA added sugar label could be a cost-effective way to improve health, generate savings
The FDA's mandatory added sugar labeling policy for packaged foods and beverages could generate important health…