Like a yoga novice, electronic components don’t stretch easily. But that’s changing thanks to a variation of origami, known as kirigami, that involves cutting folded pieces of paper. In a study published April 2 in the journal Advanced Materials, a University at Buffalo-led research team describes how kirigami has inspired its efforts to build malleable electronic circuits. ...
Scientists have found that drugs are now so prevalent that 13 per cent of those taking part in a test were found to have traces of class A drugs on their fingerprints — despite never using them. But there is no easy escape for users as researchers from the University of Surrey, who have previously ...
Music therapy has been researched in several clinical areas over the past 40 years, with many studies showing that classical music aids health and has a very positive impact on people’s wellbeing. According to the American Cancer Society, music therapy is often used in cancer treatment in reducing the pain caused by chemotherapy and effectively ...
A study shows that grazing lands are vulnerable to climate change. Some 800 million people around the world depend on livestock that graze on natural vegetation for their livelihoods and food security. In a good season, grasses and other plants flourish, supporting robust herds. In a bad season, the system suffers — as do the people ...
In the real world, your past uniquely determines your future. If a physicist knows how the universe starts, he or she can calculate its future for all time and all space. But a UC Berkeley mathematician has found some types of black holes in which this law breaks down. If someone were to venture into ...
Most of us surely don’t think of mosquitoes as being especially adept at learning. But that may not be the case. In a paper published on January 25 in Current Biology, University of Washington researchers report that they can, in fact, learn to associate a particular odor with an unpleasant mechanical shock akin to being swatted. As a ...
The human brain largely remains a black box. How the network of fast-moving electrical signals turns into thought, movement, and disease remains poorly understood. But it is electrical, so it can be hacked — the question is finding a precise, easy way to modulate the brain’s electrical signals between neurons. A new University of Chicago ...
Baked rhubarb crumble could hold the key to new, less toxic cancer drugs, according to UK researchers. Scientists from Sheffield Hallam University and the Scottish Crop Research Institute discovered that baking British garden rhubarb for 20 minutes increased its levels of certain anti-cancer chemicals called polyphenols. These chemicals have antioxidant properties, which have been shown ...
Researchers at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center have discovered the highly addictive drug in tobacco products, called nicotine, may help people with sarcoidosis, a chronic inflammatory lung disease. The main symptom of most lung diseases is shortness of breath, however, with sarcoidosis, its debilitating fatigue makes it frequently misdiagnosed. When left untreated, the ...
Dr. Tang Fei-fan was the only Chinese medical professional in the last century to come close to winning a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. He was born in Liling County, Hunan Province to a relatively poor gentry family on July 23, 1897. He witnessed the devastating impact of poverty and illness on his village ...
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