November 2015

(New Jersey Institute of Technology) Army ants construct complex bridges from their own bodies to span gaps and create shortcuts in the floor of the tropical forests of Central America, according to a new study published in the Proceedings…

(Van Andel Research Institute) Van Andel Research Institute's Gerd Pfeifer, Ph.D., has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

(University of Notre Dame) University of Notre Dame researchers have discovered a compound that accelerates diabetic wound healing, which may open the door to new treatment strategies.

(University of Otago) New findings from New Zealand's University of Otago suggest older toddlers--those aged around 32 months old--are picking up on the anti-fat attitudes of their mothers. The study, involving researchers from New…

(Duke University) Duke and Stanford researchers have developed a technique to watch the brain's neurons in action with a time resolution of about 0.2 milliseconds -- a speed that is just fast enough to capture the action potentials in…

(University of Southern California) An analysis of the tone of voice used by couples during therapy allowed a computer algorithm to predict whether a relationship would improve.

(DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Supercomputing simulations could change how researchers understand the internal motions of proteins that play functional, structural and regulatory roles in all living organisms. The team's results…

(Entomological Society of America) A tick that is not known to bite people may play a role in the transmission of Lyme disease, according to an article in the Journal of Medical Entomology.

(University of Georgia) When Mark Hain decided to leave his job as an emergency medical technician to pursue a degree in environmental engineering at the University of Georgia, he assumed he would immediately get his hands dirty designing…

(American Institute of Physics) African-American students remain underrepresented in physical science and engineering disciplines, according to a new report from the American Institute of Physics Statistical Research Center. The report…