Fat body cells in Drosophila play a surprising role in sealing wounds and preventing infection, researchers report. The cells, which were previously thought to be immobile, propel themselves forward toward wounds with a worm-like wave motion, rather than adhering to and pushing off of other structures like most motile cells […]
Daily Archives: February 26, 2018
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The Australian set the quickest lap of the day in the morning session with a 1:20.179 and also completed the most laps with 103 – over double the amount he managed last year. His best time was 1.5 seconds quicker than any time set on medium tyres across eight days […]
President Donald Trump on Monday said that he would have personally run into a Parkland, Florida., school during the shooting there earlier this month, even if he were unarmed. “I really believe I’d run in there even if I didn’t have a weapon,” Trump told governors meeting at the White […]
A Michigan church is being protested for hosting what some LGBTQ activists are calling a conversion therapy workshop. In a since-deleted Facebook post, Metro City Church in Riverview, Michigan, announced a six-week workshop for 12- to 16-year-old girls “struggling with the thoughts that they are Trans – Bi – Gay […]
[embedded content] Google’s artificial intelligence technology may sometimes seem like it’s reading our mind, but neuroscientists at Canada’s University of Toronto Scarborough are literally using A.I. for that very purpose — by reconstructing images based on brain perception using data gathered by electroencephalography (EEG). In a test, subjects were hooked […]
Two lunar missions have found that water on the moon is widely distributed and not confined to a particular region. The discovery builds on that from last August when scientists at Brown University discovered huge pockets of sub-surface water. At the time they wrote: The nearly ubiquitous presence of water […]
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Obesity is worsening in American kids, researchers reported Monday. And the most severe obesity is hitting more and more very small children — those under the age of 5, they found. Experts blame […]
Everybody can appreciate acts of kindness. But when it comes to explaining why we do them, people often take one of two extreme positions. Some think kindness is something completely selfless that we do out of love and care, while others believe it is just a tool that we cunningly […]