New study highlights the benefit of touch on mental and physical health
Through a large-scale analysis, researchers have uncovered the ways in which consensual touch can benefit a person’s physical and mental wellbeing.
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Mediterranean marine worm has developed enormous eyes
Scientists are amazed at the discovery of a bristle worm with such sharp-seeing eyes that they can measure up to those of mammals and octopuses. The researchers suspect that these marine worms may have a secretive language, which uses UV light only see…
Everyday social interactions predict language development in infants
Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby’s brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention — and the level of this type of activity predicted enhanced language develo…
How scientists are accelerating chemistry discoveries with automation
Scientists have developed an automated workflow that could accelerate the discovery of new pharmaceutical drugs and other useful products. The new automated approach could analyze chemical reactions in real time and identify new chemical-reaction produ…
Scientists release state-of-the-art spike-sorting software Kilosort4
Researchers have released Kilosort4, the newest version of a popular spike-sorting software that enables scientists to make sense of the mountains of data collected from recording the simultaneous activity of hundreds of neurons.
Unnecessary use of beta-blockers after a heart attack?
Half of all patients discharged from hospital after a heart attack are treated with beta-blockers unnecessarily, new study suggests.
Proof-of-principle demonstration of 3-D magnetic recording
Research groups have made a breakthrough in the field of hard disk drives (HDD) by demonstrating the feasibility of multi-level recording using a three-dimensional magnetic recording medium to store digital information. The research groups have shown t…
Successful ‘first in human’ clinical trial of pioneering guidance for heart bypass surgery
Trial findings suggest that the less invasive approach to heart bypass surgery offers comparable safety and efficacy to established methods and that safety issues inherent to invasive catheterisation investigation can be replaced by a non-invasive tech…
Telescope detects unprecedented behavior from nearby magnetar
Captured by cutting-edge radio telescope technology, a chance reactivation of a magnetar — the Universe’s most powerful magnets — has revealed an unexpectedly complex environment.
Integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research
A new dataset bridging molecular information about the poplar tree microbiome to ecosystem-level processes has been released. The project aims to inform research regarding how natural systems function, their vulnerability to a changing climate, and ult…