Molecule links weight gain to gut bacteria
Good bacteria that live in the guts of mammals program the metabolic rhythms that govern the body's absorption of dietary fat.
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Many gas giant exoplanets waiting to be discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA's WFIRST space telescope, according to new models of gas giant planet formation.
Read moreAfrican American children respond differently to asthma medications
African Americans suffer asthma more often and more severely than Caucasian patients. However, clinical trials that have shaped treatment guidelines have included few African Americans. A new report demonstrates a shortcoming of that history. Researchers report that African American children respond differently than African American adults and Caucasian adults and children to step-up therapies for inadequately controlled asthma.
Read morePhysicists score double hit in LED research
In 2 breakthroughs in the realm of photonics, researchers are reporting the successful demonstration of an LED (light-emitting diode) based on half-light half-matter quasiparticles in atomically thin materials. This is also the first successful test of an electrically driven light emitter using atomically thin semiconductors embedded in a light trapping structure (optical cavity).
Read moreCreating different kinds of light with manipulable quantum properties
Researchers describe a noteworthy step forward in the quantum manipulation and control of light.
Read moreImpact of climate change on Louisiana's Houma tribe
Repeated disasters and environmental changes on Louisiana's Gulf Coast are rapidly eroding the land, and along with it, an Indigenous tribe's ability to sustain its culture, health and livelihoods, new research suggests.
Read moreCommon nutrient supplementation may hold the answers to combating Alzheimer's disease
In a new study, researchers reveal that a lifelong dietary regimen of choline holds the potential to prevent Alzheimer's disease (AD).
Read moreSimulations characterize turbulence caused by common connection for dialysis
The complex interplay among the arteriovenous grafts, the vessels they connect, and the blood they transport has been difficult to simulate, but one new method provides a way. Researchers report simulations that reconstructed the fluid dynamics affected by the insertion of an AVG. They used a model that considered the ability of AVG tubes and blood vessels to deform and found much of the disrupted flow could be mitigated by this flexibility.
Read moreUsing math to blend musical notes seamlessly
Researchers have invented an algorithm that produces a real-time portamento effect, gliding a note at one pitch into a note of another pitch, between any two audio signals, such as a piano note gliding into a human voice.
Read moreFor this ocean dweller, ability to respond to warming waters is about location
A new study seeks to tease out some of the myriad pressures that drive adaptation in small, widely dispersed marine animals called copepods.
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