Tag: health
How nine days underwater helps scientists understand what life on a...
Csilla Ari D`Agostino, University of South Florida
As NASA prepares to return to the Moon in the next couple of years and possibly even establish...
The new field of sonogenetics uses sound waves to control the...
Sreekanth Chalasani, University of California San Diego
What if you didn’t need surgery to implant a pacemaker on a faulty heart? What if you could...
CBD and genetic testing provide hope for ‘intractable’ epilepsy in children
Isabel Derera, Tufts University
It can start with a vacant stare, what appear to be muscle twitches or a full-blown seizure. But no matter how...
Opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in...
Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L....
From ‘Pretty Little Liars’ to ‘The OC,’ television producers need to...
Cristel Antonia Russell, American University Kogod School of Business
Teen drinking is rampant on television these days.
From “Pretty Little Liars” to classic shows like “The...
Zero-hour contracts take a huge mental and physical toll – poor...
Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi, University of Hertfordshire and Janet Barlow, University of Hertfordshire
The number of workers on zero-hours contracts continues to rise in the UK....
Sequencing the genome of newborns in the US: Are we ready?
Tom Diacovo, University of Pittsburgh and Gerard Vockley, University of Pittsburgh
Twenty-four to 48 hours after birth, every newborn in the U.S. will have a...
Bacteria live on our eyeballs — and understanding their role could...
Tony St. Leger, University of Pittsburgh
You may be familiar with the idea that your gut and skin are home to a collection of microbes...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
