According to a study published in Science Advances, researchers discovered that the brains of women had significantly higher amounts of a modified immune protein which could signal the existence of Alzheimer's.
Vitamin A deficiency is the largest cause of blindness in the world, and it can be lethal in severe cases. This vitamin deficiency affects almost one-third of the world's preschool-aged children and is especially widespread in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
The ecology, air quality, and public health are all benefited by using renewable energy sources instead of fossil fuel-based power plants to generate greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions.
Neuroscientists discovered that the adult brain contains millions of 'silent synapses' immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new memories.
On Monday, a video was widely shared on social media, wherein a student and a professor were engaged in a war of words after the professor allegedly referred the Muslim student to terrorist Ajmal Kasab.
MIT neuroscientists have now discovered that the types of difficulties that lower-SES students have with reading, and the underlying brain signatures, are, on average, different from those of higher-SES students who struggle with reading.
Maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 percent is associated with relatively lower rates of Covid-19 infections and deaths, while indoor conditions outside this range are associated with worse Covid-19 outcomes.
A hydrologist in the IUPUI School of Science, Professor Lixin Wang, recently reviewed advances in the study of dryland productivity and examined major outstanding debates on dryland responses to environmental changes.
A hydrologist in the IUPUI School of Science, Professor Lixin Wang, recently reviewed advances in the study of dryland productivity and examined major outstanding debates on dryland responses to environmental changes.