Bats use echolocation for more than just spatial knowledge. Bats can use the characteristics of other bats’ voices to recognize each other, according to a new study.
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Researchers have shown that very low doses of inhaled carbon monoxide in diabetic mice reverses the condition known as gastroparesis or delayed stomach emptying, a common and painful complication for many diabetic patients.
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Scientists have found that a deficiency in a key tumor suppressor gene in the brain leads to the most common type of adult brain cancer. The study, conducted in mice that mimic human cancer, points the way to more effective future treatments and a way to screen for the disease early.
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Tiny fluctuations in a fetus’s heartbeat can indicate distress, but currently there is no way to detect such subtle variations except during labor, when it could be too late to prevent serious or even fatal complications. Now, a new system could allow much earlier monitoring of the fetal heartbeat.
Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centers doesn’t power the computer servers that conduct online transactions, serve web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand that continues to increase as computer processing power grows.
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When students working with educational software get stymied, they often try to find fault with the computer or the software, rather than look to their own mistakes, according to new research.
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Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs’ own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs. The researchers found that stirring up the bed bugs by spraying their environment with synthetic versions of their alarm pheromones makes them more likely to walk through agents called [...]
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Latent HIV genes can be “smoked out” of human cells. This so-called “shock and kill” technique might represent a new milestone along the way to the discovery of a cure for HIV/AIDS.
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A mineral found at health food stores could be the key to developing a new line of antibiotics for bacteria that commonly cause diarrhea, tooth decay and, in some severe cases, death. Selenium is found in a number of proteins. New research shows that interrupting the way selenoproteins are made can halt the growth of [...]
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MRSA is a major problem in nursing homes with one in four residents carrying the bacteria, a new study has found.
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