A new study shows cancer-promoting changes in lung cells as soon as 30 minutes after exposure to low-molecular weight PAHs,…
How your smartphone is affecting your relationship
The allure of smartphones, and how they impact our interpersonal relationships, might be the result of our evolutionary history, according…
Interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation
A research team has identified interaction between two elements of the immune system as critical for the transformation of a…
Why children struggle with the ‘cocktail party effect’
Researchers have clarified the development of the ability to attend to a speaker in a noisy environment — a phenomenon…
Learning a second alphabet for a first language
A part of the brain that maps letters to sounds can acquire a second, visually distinct alphabet for the same…
Grocery-store based nutrition education improves eating habits
Hypertension affects over 60 million adults in the United States and less than half have their condition under control. A…
Do we have an epidemic? Enhancing disease surveillance using a health information exchange
While disease surveillance has shifted toward greater use of electronically transmitted information to decrease the reporting burden on physicians, the…
Is our personality affected by the way we look? (Or the way we think we look?)
To what extent is our personality an adaptation to our appearance or even our physique? A team of scientists has…
Researchers 3D bio-print a model that could lead to improved anticancer drugs and treatments
Researchers have developed a way to study cancer cells which could lead to new and improved treatment. They have developed…
Pitch perfect: Brain differences behind a rare musical ability
New research reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with…