Researchers have identified a genetic variation that may influence chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) disease severity. TMEM106B is one of the first genes to be implicated in CTE. It may partially explain why some athletes present with severe CTE symptoms while others are less affected despite similar levels of head trauma.
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Thyroid cancer patients whose disease is at low risk of returning can be treated safely with a smaller amount of radiation following surgery, according to results from the world's longest running trial to investigate this — the HiLo trial. The research is presented at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference in Glasgow on Monday and means patients can enjoy a better quality of life without being at higher
Men who have been newly diagnosed with prostate cancer say they would trade some improvement in their odds of survival for improvements in side effects and quality of life, according to research presented at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference.
The rate of men dying from malignant melanoma has risen in populations around the world, while in some countries the rates are steady or falling for women, according to new research.
A research team led by Kanazawa University used chelator chemistry to recycle rare earths (REs) from spent fluorescent lamps. These technologically crucial but expensive elements were extracted using EDTA, an aminopolycarboxylate, from lamp phosphors. Combined with planetary ball-milling of the RE-containing phosphors, the optimized process recovered REs with efficiencies up to 84 percent (for ytt
Tickets sold out within 15 minutes after Toronto's Munk Debates announced I would debate Steve Bannon on their platform. The negative reaction arrived slower, but it was just as emphatic. A few days before the debate, a member of Parliament for Canada's left-wing New Democratic Party called for its cancelation. The rest of the party—the third largest in Parliament—later signaled agreement with th
New research suggests that children who suffer traumatic brain injuries are at significantly increased risk of developing new post-traumatic neuropsychiatric disorders, and may benefit from ongoing outpatient follow-up to facilitate early detection and intervention.
The rate of bed- and sofa-related injuries among young children is on the rise. The findings show a need for increased prevention efforts, including parental education and improved safety design.
Parents surveyed said they were confident their children could tell a real gun apart from a toy gun. The children themselves also said they thought they could recognize the difference. But when shown side-by-side photos of actual and fake firearms, only 41 percent of children identified both correctly. This highlights the need for campaigns to educate parents on the importance of safe firearm stor
Millions of children are being raised solely by their grandparents, with numbers continuing to climb as the opioid crisis and other factors disrupt families. New research shows that caregivers who step up to raise their grandchildren are overcoming unique challenges to manage just as well as biological and adoptive parent caregivers.
Taking antibiotics when they're unnecessary, or in the wrong dose or timeframe, fuels rising rates of antibiotic-resistant infections. Suggesting a need to step-up efforts to raise awareness about this risk, results of a new survey found parents commonly saved leftover antibiotics and gave them to others within and outside the family.
Working memory is where the brain keeps bits of information in everyday life handy. But brain scientists don't agree on how working memory works. (Image credit: Jon Berkeley/Ikon Images/Getty Images)
A team of physicists and a virologist explains how large virus shells are formed. Their work can also be used also to explain how large spherical crystals form in nature. This understanding may help researchers interrupt viruses' formation, containing the spread of viral diseases.
Researchers in Belgium have identified an additional inoculation source – the wooden casks or foeders – for producing lambic beers. Traditional lambic beer production takes place through wort inoculation with environmental air and fermentation and maturation in wooden barrels. Up to now, these lambic barrels have only been examined with culture-dependent techniques, missing a part of the microorga
Excessive stress during fetal development or early childhood can have long-term consequences for the brain, from increasing the likelihood of brain disorders and affecting an individual's response to stress as an adult to changing the nutrients a mother may pass on to her babies in the womb. The new research suggests novel approaches to combat the effects of such stress, such as inhibiting stress
Researchers have identified a compound that strongly inhibits botulinum neurotoxin, the most toxic compound known. That inhibiting compound, nitrophenyl psoralen (NPP), could be used as a treatment to reduce paralysis induced by botulism. Botulinum neurotoxin is considered a potential bioweapon because there is no FDA-approved antidote.
Researchers have uncovered a network of more than 200 genes linked to autism. They have also unpicked an exact sequence of events during microexon splicing, known to be disrupted in autism, as a first step toward developing targeted treatments.
Researchers have discovers that disorder is part of the structural transition of Vanadium Dioxide from an insulator state to a metallic state at extremely small time resolutions. The results of the study provide a new perspective on how to control matter, especially in the field of superconductivity, which could have major implications for nano-technology and optoelectronics.
Keep an eye open for northern Taurid meteors coming from the direction of Taurus This week's must-see moment occurs on the evening of the 11th, just after sunset. Look to the south-west and Saturn will be hanging low in the sky just below a beautiful crescent moon . Continue reading…
A comprehensive study examining the global impact of suicide prevention approaches in young people has found that youth-specific interventions conducted in clinical, educational and community settings can be effective in reducing suicide-related behavior in young people at risk.
Scientists undertook a groundbreaking large-scale study on secondary glioblastomas (sGBM) to search for new therapy treatments. sGBMs are an aggressive type of brain tumor, target younger patients and existing treatment method is insufficient.
Washington State University researchers have seen cognitive changes in the offspring of rats exposed to heavy amounts of cannabis. Their work is one of the rare studies to look at the effects of cannabis during pregnancy. The drug is the most commonly used illicit substance among pregnant women.
The Midterm Elections are on November 6th. 1,200 candidates are running for 500 seats that will have an impact on every bit of your life. Scientists and Doctors are running for office. Innumerable environmental issues will be decided. Read up on the candidates, the issues, and then: vote. None The midterm elections are fast approaching. Early voting is underway and setting records for turnout acr
Promising findings from preclinical animal studies show the potential of gene therapy for treating incurable neurological disorders. In new research presented today, scientists successfully used gene therapy to slow the progression and improve symptoms of disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson's disease. The findings were presented at Neuroscience 2018, the annual meeting of
Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk's book Dissolving Illusions make numerous egregious errors or deceptive statements about polio. Here is part 1 in a series about the truth and true impacts of polio.
The rate of men dying from malignant melanoma has risen in populations around the world, while in some countries the rates are steady or falling for women, according to research presented at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference.
Neuroscientists are developing a clearer picture than ever before of how the animal brain processes social information, from status and competitive advantage in a group to the calls and vocalizations of peers. New studies in mice and marmosets help us understand a range of disorders defined by deficits in social function and identify mechanisms that could also operate in the human brain.
Some 80,000 Americans are incarcerated in solitary confinement on any given day, a practice that was deemed cruel and unusual punishment by the United Nations Committee on Torture. This extreme isolation can be damaging and may cause or worsen depression, anxiety, and other mental illness. A roundtable of scientists, a physician, a lawyer, and an individual held in solitary for 29 years will explo
W hen Meggen Massey learned that she would be able to vote in the 2016 presidential election, she was "ecstatic." She had always thought of herself as a voter, but when she arrived in jail in Los Angeles County with an arson charge, some of her fellow detainees told her that she had lost that right. "I was devastated," Massey remembered. "I was like, Oh my God, I'm never going to be able to vote
Everyone's panicked. That's how Saturday Night Live summed up the final days before the midterm elections, from both sides of the spectrum, in an episode that felt a little more knowing and sharp than the show's broad, goofy portrayals of the Kavanaugh confirmation and its aftermath . The episode began with Kate McKinnon's parody of Laura Ingraham's Fox News show, The Ingraham Angle , as she warn
Based on past experience at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting , I thought I could just stroll into the opening Dialogues lecture a few minutes before it began and park myself just about anywhere. After all, there are about 5,000 seats in the San Diego Convention Center's massive ballroom, and there were always open seats in past years. But not this year. That's because Pat Metheny
Hot spots have been discovered orbiting just outside the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center. Their motions have given us the closest look at that violent environment.
The rocket's next launch comes less than a month after a major mishap endangered the lives of crewmembers bound for the International Space Station — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
In November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris wrote a program that would travel from computer to computer and ask each machine to send a signal back to a control server, which would keep count.
Illustration: Celina Pereira; Nationaal Archief / Wikimedia There's a mountain recluse who appears twice in Lucia Berlin 's prose, once in a story from her 2015 collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women , and once in an autobiographical scrap from a new book, Welcome Home: A Memoir With Selected Photographs and Letters . She describes meeting the man when she was a little girl; her father had befri
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, the Whole Foods in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was absolutely bereft of celery. Conventional, organic, whatever—Hilary Sloan was out of luck. Sloan, a former colleague of mine who works in marketing, was looking for celery because a friend had evangelized to her about the health-promoting properties of celery juice. That friend had learned about the juice's magic in t
By age 12, Kehinde Wiley had a reputation in his Los Angeles neighborhood for being a talented artist. Teachers at his school recommended him for a program during which he spent the summer of 1989 in Russia with 50 Soviet kids and 50 other Americans, creating murals, learning the Russian language and culture, hiking, swimming, and picking mushrooms. "It was a strange, magical time," he recalls. W
NASA's Charlie Sobeck, former manager of the Kepler Space Telescope mission, discusses the monumental findings of the spacecraft and NASA's decision to retire it in orbit. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/T. Pyle/Getty Images)
For decades, technology entrepreneurs have established their headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area, created products that changed the way we live, and reaped millions doing so. But at the same time, the cities around these companies have become harder and harder to live in. Housing prices and homelessness are rising, roads are clogged , transit is over capacity . Tech companies aren't necess
MIAMI—Whatever happens on Tuesday, there's not much Democrats can do to assume control in Washington. They're running as a check on Donald Trump's presidency, playing defense, positioning themselves for the long term, at best. Take the House, and even the Senate, and it's still about playing to a stalemate. But if results break in their favor on Tuesday, Democrats could take control of state gove
Australia is one of the United States' closest allies anywhere. Its soldiers fought alongside Americans in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It's a member of the world's most exclusive intelligence club, the "Five Eyes" (the other four are the United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand). Its conservative prime minister says he wants to help the United States cu
T ALLAHASSEE, Fla.—There's nothing quite like the cacophony of the homecoming parade at a historically black university. Here at Florida A&M, children run between floats, yelling and laughing as they chase down pieces of hard candy. Bass from car speakers and from roadside DJs rattle trunks and ear drums. Frying fish crackles and street vendors hawk orange and green shirts. And at the center of i
The question of how to define the middle class is one of the perennial mysteries of American social life. Most people say they're "middle class," so how can we know what this really means? Every few years some intrepid social scientists venture a new definition. This September, the Brookings economist Richard Reeves and Katherine Guyot argued that the middle class is "the middle 60 percent of hou
The newly released "Navigate on Autopilot" makes choices about when to change lanes, but depends on the human's help—help that will make the system better in the long run.
Depression and anxiety rates are through the roof amongst young Americans, with the left and the right sides of the political spectrum blaming each other. Neither has an answer, and it goes beyond buzzwords like "safe spaces" and "triggered". When everyone feels like a victim, are the mediums of communication themselves—social media and search engines—at fault? There is no one right answer, but J
Can a room painted with light-absorbing Vantablack enhance the experience of playing Black Ops 4, the latest game in the Call of Duty series? Our reporter went to find out
After living for a year and a half trapped indoors in her father's office building, the 14-year-old Anne Frank wrote of her longing to be a regular teenager who could go outside and "look at the world." She expressed her envy of the people who enter the building "with the wind in their clothes and the cold on their cheeks." Beyond the walls of the hiding place she shared with seven others in the
De danske ingeniører var sent ude med at organisere sig, fortalte Ingeniørens tidligere chefredaktør Torkil Morsing i sin beretning om DIF's grundlæggelse i anledning af 100 års jubilæet i 1992.
It's bizarre to think that doctors make good parents – in fact, the opposite may well be true I was standing in the check-in queue, sunburned, exhausted and very late for a seven-hour flight from Toronto to London. My wife had, sensibly, returned from the holiday a day earlier. In one arm I held my screaming one-year-old daughter, Lyra. Her folded pram was slung over the other shoulder. I was clu
Revolutionary work on the body's immune system and a host of new drug trials mean that beating cancer may be achievable Last month, the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for two breakthrough scientific discoveries heralded as having "revolutionised cancer treatment", and "fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed". One of them went to a charismatic, harmonica-playing Texan
Scientists are investigating canines' extraordinary sense of smell, hoping that it will prove a more reliable predictor of illnesses than conventional testing Last week, researchers presented evidence that dogs could tell from sniffing someone's socks whether they had malaria. After several months of training, a labrador and a labrador-retriever could tell if a child had the disease even if they
Industrial pits led to waterproofed ships for epic pillaging raids Vikings conquered Europe thanks to an unexpected technological innovation. They learned how to make tar on an industrial scale and used it to waterproof their longships so that they could undertake large-scale, lengthy pillaging trips around Europe – and across the Atlantic, say archaeologists. Norse raiders were the original Boys
Fluorescent marker accumulates in the fastest-growing cells, helping surgeons pinpoint tumours and leave healthy tissue alone Surgeons have tested the use of a fluorescent marker that can help them remove dangerous brain tumour cells from patients more accurately. The research was carried out on people who had suspected glioblastoma, the disease that killed British politician Dame Tessa Jowell in
Delegates from nearly 200 countries are gathering in Ecuador to discuss efforts to repair the ozone layer, and the return of a banned chemical will be on the agenda.
Researchers have identified a genetic variation that may influence chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) disease severity.TMEM106B is one of the first genes to be implicated in CTE. It may partially explain why some athletes present with severe CTE symptoms while others are less affected despite similar levels of head trauma.
When you hear the term "neuromarketing," do you envision corporate mind control directing you to purchase products? You are not alone. The good news is, no mind-controlling "buy button" exists. The bad news is, as neuroscience areas such as decision-making and reward processing advance, and our personal data accumulates online, there's no guarantee it will never exist in the future. But this is e
A chemical that highlights tumor cells has been used by surgeons to help spot and safely remove brain cancer in a trial presented at the 2018 NCRI Cancer Conference.
Team Bombshell loses control and bursts into flames in the Battlebox. As they race to repair before their next fight, Monsoon has a massive battery fire that leaves them rebuilding from the ground up. Stream Full Episodes of BattleBots: Resurrection: https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/battlebots-resurrection/ Subscribe to Discovery: http://bit.ly/SubscribeDiscovery Join us on Facebook: https://ww
Vietnam may give internet companies like Google and Facebook one year to comply with a controversial cybersecurity law, according to a draft decree that outlines how the draconian bill could be implemented.
Twitter on Saturday said it deleted a "series of accounts" that attempted to share disinformation, ahead of crucial midterm elections, as media reports said thousands of accounts were axed.
Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years. With the U.S. midterm elections just a few days away, there are signs that they're making some headway, although they're still a very long way from winning the war.
An ex-Observer journalist on her battle with depression, and the creation of a celebration of women with complicated lives Not long after my 30th birthday – which I spent cry-dancing in a random club with baffled strangers – I went to my GP and was diagnosed with depression. In some ways it was a relief. The feelings of hopelessness, inadequacy, unworthiness and loneliness with which I'd struggle
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