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One way to think about this question is to ask how many of my neurons you would have to observe to read my mind. If you can predict I am

According to the study authors, as the volume of amniotic fluid increases, pregnant women tend to increase their consumption of fluids. To avoid extra calories, many pregnant women replace sugar-sweetened

Salk researchers reported a new method of deriving astrocytes from stem cells, opening up broad avenues for research into diseases with inflammatory features. The protocol, which is described in the

Surprisingly, the investigators found the bread itself didn’t greatly affect the participants and that different people reacted differently to the bread. The research team then devised an algorithm to help

Most sensory information from the outside world — including sight, touch and sound — is collected in a region of the brain called the thalamus. The thalamus then relays signals

Both studies, co-authored by biochemist Gino Cortopassi in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, have implications for Friedreich’s ataxia, a rare, inherited disease that affects 6,000 people in the

“We really need to study both sexes,” says Dr. Franck Mauvais-Jarvis, a leading voice in the debate to bring sex parity to pre-clinical research. “The focus on a single sex

But many eligible children do not enroll in those services and the rates of enrollment vary in part by which agency at the state level is serving as the lead,

All sorts of groups across Penn Medicine are harnessing data contained in electronic health records (EHRs) and social media to help improve outcomes. The Abramson Cancer Center, for instance, uses

Alternaria alternata is a fungus that produces spores in the dry, warm weather of late summer and early fall. Previous studies have found that Alternaria produces up to three times

“The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way,” said Dr. Joseph S. Friedman, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at

“We found that emphasizing Corporate Social Responsibility is not good for shareholders,” said David Javakhadze, Ph.D., assistant professor of finance, who investigated the relationship between CSR and efficiency with which

The findings appeared in the May issue of Scientific Reports and were presented by UNLV scientist Francis Cucinotta, a leading scholar on radiation and space physics. Previous studies have shown

Scientists make precise measurements of water clarity from satellite data, but the calculations can be complex and hard to explain to people outside the discipline of oceanography. Now NASA is

Now, by mounting GelSight sensors on the grippers of robotic arms, two MIT teams have given robots greater sensitivity and dexterity. The researchers presented their work in two papers at