An ambitious plan is under way in the ecological community to agree a set of standards for ecologically successful river restoration. The plan is being led by the British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology, which this month is publishing a special profile on river restoration.
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Yips — a condition among some golfers that describes the inability to appropriately complete a golf stroke, usually during putting or chipping and worsening with anxiety — may be a task-specific movement disorder similar to writer’s cramp and musician’s cramp, according to new research.
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European space scientists have strongly recommended a mission equipped with a Rover as the next scientific mission to Mars as part of the European Space Agency’s Aurora programme of planetary exploration.
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Mayo Clinic researchers have found that people who score in the upper 25 percent in anxiety level on a personality test have a moderately increased risk of developing Parkinson’s disease decades later. They also found a similar link between pessimistic personalities and Parkinson’s.
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Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for a wide variety of applications, including more efficient ways of storing and using solar energy.
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After a first psychotic episode, patients who were treated with an atypical antipsychotic medication had less change in brain volume compared with patients treated with a conventional antipsychotic medication, according to an article in the April issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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When the first matter came into being right after the big bang, what was it like? It may not have been quite as scientists have been describing it. That is one of the possibilities raised by four teams of researchers. Weizmann Institute scientists are among those who participated in the creation of matter that may be the “quark-gluon plasma” thought to be the first matter in the universe.
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A surgical technique offers improved outcomes for straightening the middle third of the nose, a difficult to manage deformity, according to an article in the March issue of the Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
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Ultra-realistic surround sound is a step closer for everyone thanks to a new method that will cheaply and efficiently compute the way individuals hear things.
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Body fatness was associated with more cardiovascular disease risk factors even among healthy, aerobically fit men, according to a report in an obesity-themed issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
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