For The Better

Flatburn is an open-source, mobile pollution detector intended to let people measure air quality cheaply.

Using a new computational approach they developed to analyze large genetic datasets from rare disease cohorts, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and colleagues have discovered previously unknown genetic causes of three rare con…

Researchers have reported a novel method of harvesting water from naturally occurring sources such as fog and dew.

Preterm infants do not get used to repeated pain in the way that full-term infants, children and adults do habituate to pain, finds a new study.

A small nucleus in the brainstem called locus coeruleus (literally the ‘blue spot,’) is the primary source of a major neuromodulator, norepinephrine (NE), an important mediator of the ‘fight or flight’ response in animals. However, very little is known…

Sleeping less than five hours a night is associated with a 74% raised likelihood of developing peripheral artery disease (PAD) compared with seven to eight hours.

New research shows how human-modified landscapes affect the diets of these marsupial scavengers.

Heavy workloads make employees feel a greater need for a break, but new research finds they may actually discourage employees from taking breaks at work despite causing high levels of stress, fatigue, and poor performance.

A research team has discovered a novel mechanism to process DNA damage induced by a next-generation cancer therapy (heavy ion therapy).

Researchers have found a new way to remove waste from the brain after hemorrhage.

New research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs.

A cytokinin-mediated, proliferation-based mechanism is involved in the generation and maintenance of cell-type specific tissue boundaries during vascular development in Arabidopsis roots. Specifically, the HANABA-TARANU transcription factor forms a fee…