Sandra Handy

Brain Injury Predominant in Domestic Violence, Study Says

07.03.2019 08:42 AM

The study suggests that the blows to the head caused brain injury and by oxygen deprivation are likely ongoing health issues for many domestic violence survivors

Insects Instigate Greener, Cheaper Membranes for Desalination

07.02.2019 09:59 AM

This case is the first-ever demonstration of MD membranes derived from intrinsically wetting materials

Study Discovers Five Health Problems Per Person

07.02.2019 09:54 AM

Individualized screening and self-management recommendations do enhance health, even among people who feel healthy

Synthesizing Chemical-Sensing Cells from Scratch

07.02.2019 09:48 AM

Researchers have discovered a way to make artificial cells interact with a wide range of chemicals It might be hard for so many to bake a cake from scratch, and another far-reaching story is constructing an artificial cell-like system from scratch.

Physicists Enable Ultrafast Quantum Computing Using Light Waves to Accelerate Supercurrents

07.02.2019 09:45 AM

Light can be used to control some of the essential quantum properties of superconducting states, including macroscopic supercurrent flowing, broken symmetry and accessing individual high-frequency quantum oscillations believed to be forbidden by symmetry

Chronic Hepatitis B Infections in Europe on the Rise Since 2008

07.01.2019 08:43 AM

In 2017, the considerable high rate of 26,907 reported hepatitis B infections particularly chronic cases, in combination with the diversity in stated transmission routes across Europe suggested that countries need to maintain and strengthen local hepatitis prevention and control programs

Researchers Discovered a Mechanism to Enhance Pancreatic Islet Transportation in Type 1 Diabetes

07.01.2019 08:35 AM

The study suggests islet transplantation can restore the physiological function in patients with this type of diabetes

Friends, Not Fitbit, More Predictive of Health, Says Studies

06.28.2019 10:29 AM

What the researchers discovered was the social network structure provides a significant improvement in predictability of wellness states of an individual over using the data derived from wearables, like the number of steps or heart rate

Traditional Fluid Flow Observations May Miss the Big Picture

06.27.2019 18:43 PM

The researchers investigated how a solution of dissolved polymers changed after the addition of Fe3+ solution

New Survey Discovered More Than Two in Five American Adults (45%) Doubt Safety of Vaccine

06.27.2019 10:01 AM

The Harris Poll conducted a recent online survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults on behalf of the American Osteopathic Association and showed that more than two in five American adults (45 percent) say something has caused them to doubt vaccine safety.

How Trees Affect the Weather

06.27.2019 10:00 AM

Biologists from the University of Utah including William Anderegg, Anna Trugman, and David Bowling have led new research and discovered that some trees and plants are prolific spendthrifts in drought conditions, "spending" precious soil water to cool themselves and, in the process, making droughts more intense. The researchers published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Pornography Consumption Increase Unethical Behavior at Work

06.25.2019 23:41 PM

Consumption of pornography heightens the propensity of the viewer to view others as objects or less than human

Researchers Revealed How the Dragon Got Its Frill

06.25.2019 23:41 PM

Study shows that the dragon’s frill, as well as bones and cartilages that support it, develop from the branchial arches

Using New Groundbreaking Human-Mimetic Tools to Combat the World’s Deadliest Infections

06.24.2019 15:54 PM

The study includes a comprehensive review of the models used to study deadly mosquito-borne flaviviruses (MBF) such as dengue fever and the Zika virus, known to cause neurological disease in humans

A New Microscopy System for Imaging Cells from Inside

06.24.2019 15:54 PM

DNA microscopy could be used to map any group of molecules that will interact with the synthetic DNA tags, including cellular genomes, RNA, or proteins with DNA-labeled antibodies

Shimmer Partners With ClearSky to Enhance Analysis of Wearable Sensor Data for CNS Diseases

06.22.2019 16:44 PM

The excitement is all about the potential for their clinical research customers to leverage ClearSky’s experience and datasets to develop endpoints for a wide variety of CNS disorders based on Verisense data

Researchers Identified New Mutation in the Leptin Gene

06.22.2019 10:49 AM

Researchers believe this new mutation could help them understand why people develop an excess of body fat

Circulating Liquid – ‘Robot Blood’ – Powers Robotic Applications for Lengthy Tasks

06.22.2019 09:45 AM

By designing power sources that give robots the ability to function for more extended periods, researchers think autonomous robots could soon be roaming the Earth’s oceans on vital scientific missions and for delicate environmental tasks like sampling coral reefs

Scientists Made a Surprising Discovery of Undersea Fresh Water Aquifer off US Northeast

06.22.2019 09:39 AM

Researchers noted that they knew there was fresh water down there in isolated places, but they did not know the extent or geometry

How Climate Change Affect Coffee and Cocoa Production System

06.21.2019 09:32 AM

The new study explored which tree species may be more successful in future coffee and cocoa plantations to create more benign microclimates

Experts Call for Urgent Global Change to River Management and Modeling

06.21.2019 09:28 AM

The paper is a call for the uptake of these approaches to allow for a scientifically robust basis for managing for resilience in rivers under climate change

Research Team Discovers Two New Earth-Like Planets near Teegarden’s Star

06.21.2019 09:24 AM

The system is located at a special place in the sky; from Teegarden’s star, it is possible to see the planets of the solar system passing in front of the Sun

Scientists are Closer than Ever to a Norovirus Vaccine

06.20.2019 15:45 PM

The most significant discovery of this research is a human antibody that can bind to a highly conserved region of the virus common among different strains of norovirus, potentially neutralizing all GII.4 strains of norovirus that exist in nature

Animals’ Brain Activity ‘Sync’ During Social Interactions, Studies Show

06.20.2019 15:34 PM

These studies suggest that something similar occurs when animals engage in natural social interactions and discover that some aspects of the animals’ social behavior can be predicted based on neural observations

Excessive Courtship Displays Make Wolf Spiders Easy Target for Birds

06.20.2019 13:57 PM

Researchers noted that by courting the way they do, they are putting themselves at risk of bird predators

The Nose Knows When it Comes to Stronger Memories

06.20.2019 11:07 AM

Research suggests that aversive odors might be used in the future to examine emotional learning and memory processes across development

Scientists Discovered New Species of Rock-Eating Shipworm in Freshwater in the Philippines

06.20.2019 10:58 AM

Researchers said that these animals are among the most essential in the river and this ecosystem Scientists have discovered a new genus and species of worm-like freshwater clam, commonly known as a shipworm, eats rock and expels sands as scat while it burrows like an ecosystem engineer in the Abatan River in the Philippines.

Experimental Drug Can Encourage Bone Growth in Children with Dwarfism, Study Shows

06.20.2019 09:31 AM

The result of the study, at present, show an impact on growth, and this effect is sustained, at least over nearly four years in this trial

How Bacteria Protect Themselves from Plasma Treatment

06.20.2019 09:29 AM

Genetic changes that increase the number or activity of the respective gene products are more capable of protecting bacteria from the effect of plasma treatment

Scientists Develop New Program to Monitor Street Signs via Google Street View

06.20.2019 09:26 AM

Researchers said that with the use of free and open source tools, they have now developed an automated system for doing that job, and doing it more accurately