Adults take girls’ pain less seriously, study

According to a new study at Yale University, American boys experience more pain than girls despite identical clinical circumstances and identical pain behavior across conditions. At...

Novel strategy for designing tiny semiconductor particles for wide-ranging applications

Engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a non-expensive and scalable way to synthesize transition metal dichalcogenides quantum dots (TMD QDs)....

Scientists drill to record depths in West Antarctica

Scientists for the first time have drilled over two kilometers through the ice sheet in West Antarctica using hot water. This study will help them see...

Vegetable and fish diet linked to lower high blood pressure risk in pregnancy

High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects around 1 in 10 pregnancies. There are different types of hypertensive disorders that occur during pregnancy....

A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

MIT scientists have devised a new cryptocurrency that definitely diminishes the data users need to join the system and confirm trasactions— by up to 99...

Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth

A new study by the Rice University scientists suggests that most of the Earth's essential elements of life such as carbon, nitrogen and other life-essential...

Scientists may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s

A team of international scientists led by Cortexyme, Inc., a privately held, the clinical-stage pharmaceutical company has recently discovered the role of a common bacterium, Porphyromonas...

Creating attraction between molecules deep in the periodic table

Researchers at the McGill University have shown that it is possible to develop strong, stable attractions between some of the heavier elements in the...

Astronomers discover an unusual nuclear transient

An international group of astronomers has detected an unusual nuclear transient in the nucleus of a weakly active galaxy. 

Scientists see link between oxidative stress and neurological disorders

Indian scientists have found a new function of a gene which is already known to play a role in neurological disorders. Scientists at the Indian...

New bioactive dental filling material promises to be teeth-friendly

A team of Indian scientists has developed a new technique that promises to help produce bioactive dental filling materials which will take much lesser...

Greater access to information reduces unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions

Antibiotics are often the go-to prescription for many primary care cases, but researchers estimate that as much as 23% of these prescriptions could be...