The annual injury risk for regular runners is up to 80%. It is largely related to how runner’s foot hits the ground. Emerging evidence suggests that heel or forefoot strike
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Harnessing energy from glass walls
Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy. But this has
In the eye of the beholder: Computational artist uses computer programming to produce moving images
Hirakawa believes that technological tools and computation, rather than his imagination, are the most effective way for him to achieve the sublime. During his residence, he relied on computation to
Body- and sex related problems are separate from other forms of psychological problems
A recent study shows that psychological problems relating to one’s body and sexuality, such as body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, or sexual distress, are linked to each other but not strongly
Seeing life in fast-forward: visual brain predicts future events based on past experience
Imagine that you are standing on the sidewalk, ready to cross the street. A car approaches and you need to decide whether to wait, or to cross the street before
Engines fire without smoke
Although today’s passenger vehicle engines are cleaner than ever before, their exhaust can still contain significant numbers of nanoscopic soot particles that are small enough to penetrate the lungs and
How self-regulation can help young people overcome setbacks
Where some give-up or crumble at the sight of a difficulty, others have levels of resilience that allow them to preserver and to stay calm under pressure. This often gives
Separating DNA: From hours to minutes
The new chip is capable of fractionating DNA fragments within just a few minutes, while conventional approaches take hours. The chip does this in high resolution and also purifies the
UK eyeing fines for social media content moderation failures
After the UK Prime Minister Theresa May secured a joint statement from the G7 on Friday, backing a call for social media firms to do more to combat online extremism, a Conservative minister
Sorting out HIV: Research collaboration devises a new method that could speed up vaccine development for HIV
The technique will enable scientists to identify specific features in the proteins on the virus’s surface which are recognized by the immune system and elicit a response similar to that
Concrete for taller wind turbine towers passes tests, could help expand wind energy nationwide
But look at another map, said Sritharan, the Wilkinson Chair in Iowa State University’s College of Engineering, a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and the interim assistant dean
Water forms ‘spine of hydration’ around DNA, group finds
“It’s uniquely adapted to biology, and vice versa,” said Poul Petersen, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University. “It’s super-flexible. It dissipates energy and mediates interactions, and
Zika infections could be factor in more pregnancies
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison infected four pregnant rhesus macaque monkeys at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center with a Zika virus dose similar to what would be transferred
Rock climbing envisioned as new treatment for depression
UA researcher Eva-Maria Stelzer and Katharina Luttenberger of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg led a team that involved more than 100 individuals in a bouldering intervention in Germany, where some hospitals
Studying children at increased risk of suicide
Children and young people admitted to hospital in England with injuries related to self-harming, drugs or alcohol faced an increased risk of killing themselves over the following 10 years, according
