After completing a destructive episode at the Bahamas and the Caribbean, Hurricane Sandy now makes way to the East Coast where it would appear as one of the worst storms that has ever occurred.
In a fundamentally bold experiment, a research laboratory at Lund University in Sweden introduced a light sensitive protein in transgenic nerve cells transplanting nerve cells into the brains of laboratory animals. By inserting an optic nerve fibre in the brain and using it to light up the nerve cel...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that 1 in 88 children born today will be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. This causes persistent deficits in social communication and relatedness, and repetitive or restrictive patterns of interest that appear in early childhood and...
Social behavior serves many purposes and is exhibited by an extraordinary wide variety of animals, including invertebrates, fish, birds, and mammals. Some animals are successful in getting food if they search as a group. Manimals live in social groups partly for protection.
A marine creature throws a strand of evidence about the similarity of process in the formation of gut by different animals.
The zebrafish is a potential tool for testing one class of unique individual's genetic difference that is found in humans. This research that is conducted by a team of Penn State College of Medicine scientists suggest that this finding may yield information is useful for the emerging field of person...
Climate change has qualified to be the biggest threat of this century. And, the damage caused by the human activity is seen now in frogs.
Stroke is the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the United States. In America someone has a stroke about every 40 seconds.
The older adults who love to their independence would be reluctant to avail help in their daily activities. Will the new robotic assistance help in changing Grandma and Grandpa's perspective?
Most of the TV and movie directors love to show Ornithomimus dinosaur stampeding in herds across vast plains. New research reveals this ostrich-like dinosaur's depiction is not entirely accurate -- the ornithomimids should have had feathers and wings.
A novel technology is being used to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea. With the help of an electronic nose, one can detect the presence of molecules in the breath of a patient.
Brain waves can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game. The researchers with the help of an electroencephalography looked at the electrical activity in the brain of 39 subjects before they trained on Space Fortress. None of the subjects were daily video game players.
