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Machine learning and fMRI reveal brain activity patterns for sustained pain and pleasure
Medical Xpress· 3 days agoA team of researchers has revealed how the brain processes emotional information of sustained pain and pleasure. Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the team recorded brain activity ...
Study determines in utero undernutrition contributes to accelerated biological aging
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoThe results are published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The Dutch famine that took place between November 1944 and May 1945 at the time of the German surrender ...
Supercapacitors Are About To Blow Past Batteries as the Kings of Power
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 4 days agoGupta and the other two authors used existing formulae to build an efficient way to model thousands...
Socially connected older adults hit harder by pandemic than isolated peers
Medical Xpress· 6 days ago"In fact, our study suggests the opposite—that isolated older people were somewhat protected from...
Supercapacitors Are About To Blow Past Batteries as the Kings of Power
Popular Mechanics· 4 days agoA new paper could give energy scientists a better way to design supercapacitors. Capacitors are a...
Revolutionary New Pest Control Tool Discovered by Johns Hopkins
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoA Johns Hopkins study revealed that an enzyme in fruit fly testes could hinder insect reproduction...
Study reveals unexpected mechanism of drug resistance in kidney cancer
Medical Xpress· 2 days agoFor nearly two decades, how kidney cancer becomes resistant to rapalog drugs has baffled the scientific community. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study ...
Harnessing Nature’s Genius: Scientists Uncover Secret Mechanics of Fire Ant Rafts
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoFire ants form rafts to survive flooding, but how do those bonds work? A Binghamton University, State University of New York professor is researching those questions to expand our knowledge ...
Newswise Expert | Lisa Ainsworth, Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project
Newswise· 7 days agoRealizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency (RIPE) Project Deputy Director Lisa Ainsworth is a Research Plant Physiologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service ...
Woolly rhinos went extinct partially because of humans
Cosmos· 7 days agoDebate has raged among palaeontologists for decades as to whether the now extinct Ice Age megafauna of the late Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) disappeared because of humans activities ...