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Medical Xpress / Attention scan: How our minds shift focus in dynamic settings
A person's capacity for attention has a profound impact on what they see, dictating which details they glean from the world around them. As they walk down a busy street, the focus of their attention may shift to a compelling ...
Phys.org / 'Microbial Noah's Ark' ramps up to save Earth's invisible life forms
A global effort to create a "microbial Noah's Ark" to preserve the world's diverse collection of healthy microbes before they disappear is now entering an active growth phase.
Phys.org / Do you have a nosy coworker? Research finds snooping colleagues send our stress levels rising
They're a common office menace: the nosy coworker. They read over shoulders, loiter as friends chitchat, ask uncomfortable personal questions. It can be tempting to duck for cover whenever you see them heading your way.
Phys.org / Remote cave discovery shows ancient voyagers brought rice across 2,300 km of Pacific Ocean
In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands—at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of western Micronesia.
Phys.org / Beyond the crystal: Dynamic model captures loop flexibility in swine virus drug design
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) continues to devastate the global swine industry, yet the structural basis of how small molecules block its entry into host cells remains unclear. Researchers at ...
Phys.org / Ancient squids dominated the ocean 100 million years ago, fossil discovery technique reveals
Squids first appeared about 100 million years ago and quickly rose to become dominant predators in the ancient oceans, according to a study published in the journal Science.
Phys.org / Study shows that apes are more optimistic after hearing laughter
While laughter is often considered uniquely human, tied to language and sense of humor, all great apes produce remarkably similar vocalizations during play that share evolutionary origins with human laughter.
Medical Xpress / How a faulty transport protein in the brain can trigger severe epilepsy
Citrate is essential for the metabolism and development of neurons. A membrane transport protein called SLC13A5 plays a central role in this process and has previously been linked to a particularly severe form of epileptic ...
Medical Xpress / How dysfunction of a cellular calcium channel affects hearing
Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have shown how a minimal change in a single ion channel increases the sensitivity of sensory cells in the inner ear. Even soft sounds, such as a whisper, are perceived ...
Medical Xpress / Predicting 'sleep learning': Neural activity patterns reveal conditions for strengthening synaptic connections
In the cerebral cortex, numerous neurons exchange information through junctions known as synapses. The strength of each synaptic connection changes depending on the activity levels of the neurons involved, and these changes ...
Medical Xpress / Precursors to bone marrow cancer can stop themselves by entering dormant state
Why do some patients with precursors to bone marrow cancer never develop the disease? Researchers from the Department of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University have discovered that some cells enter a dormant state and create ...
Phys.org / Researchers demonstrate giant photonic isolation and gyration
Researchers from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering are the first to demonstrate a simple and tunable method for realizing asymmetric couplings in integrated photonics. Their findings, published in Physical Review ...
