Gaming Toward a Healthier Life? Smartphone Game Improves Medical Care for HIV Positive Young Men Who Have Sex with Men

In the United States, young men who have sex with men (MSM) are at higher risk for being infected with HIV, and are experiencing problems at various stages…

Cave Bears Probably Did Eat Their Vegetables Isotope analysis indicates that the prehistoric cave bear diet was much more reliant on plants than previously thought

Modern bears, while typically thought of as carnivores, actually have a wide variety of dietary preferences. Some eat only meat while others are omnivores, meaning that they eat…

Reprogramming Neurons to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease A promising Alzheimer's disease treatment has been developed as a result of a 2012 Nobel Prize winning discovery

The story is all too familiar: promising effects are shown in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease – providing hope for patients, physicians, and researchers alike – only to…

Smart Pill Bottle Caps to Protect Curious Kids Researchers develop an intelligent pill bottle that can sense a child’s touch with high accuracy

There’s no shelf too high or a bottle too tight that can kill a child’s curiosity. For all the cushioned furniture corners and safety gates that parents install…

Friends to Foes: When a Symbiont Becomes a Parasite Hotter water changes the relationship between coral reefs and tiny single-celled organisms called symbiodinium

We’ve all heard that rising global temperatures are bad for the environment. Typically, this is framed in terms of rising sea levels and melting Arctic and Antarctic ice…

One Man’s Waste Soot is Another Man’s Rechargeable Battery Unwanted marine vessel engine soot may be an ideal ingredient for rechargeable lithium ion battery anodes

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are important in our lives as we use them frequently in our smartphones, laptops, tablets, power tools, and electric vehicles. They are even used to…

The Sum is More Than the Parts: Effects of HIV and Alcoholism or Hepatitis C on the Brain HIV works together with Hepatitis C or alcoholism to accelerate aging and problems in the brain

As the medications for HIV have gotten more effective, people are living longer with HIV. However, as people living with HIV get older, they are more likely to…

Are Pink Salmon the Key to Better Fish Farming? Pink salmon experience less intestinal damage from eating soy than other salmon species

In the aquaculture industry, one of the most important and most costly parts of raising fish, especially carnivorous fish, is providing them with the ideal feed for growth…

Getting Rid of Graffiti with a Two-Wavelength Laser A combination of ultraviolet and infrared radiation may be able to blast graffiti off of valued stone monuments, restoring them for future generations

Graffiti on the Berlin Wall may have become a symbol of freedom, but many heritage structures around the world are in grave danger of being scarred for eternity…

Washing Lettuce Might Not Remove All The Germs Human norovirus, sometimes called the "stomach bug," found a way to stay attached to fresh produce even when it’s washed.

One of the first steps of any recipe is to wash your produce. In today’s global food system, fruits and vegetables make a lot of stops before reaching…