Archive: 15/08/2016

Don't scan so close to me: Researcher scans Sting's musical brain

What does the 1960s Beatles hit "Girl" have in common with Astor Piazolla's evocative tango composition "Libertango"?

Aug 15, 2016

0

465

New research sheds light on the role of proteins and how synapses work

Synapses are the power junctions that allow living creatures to function. Popularly associated with learning and memory, they play a more fundamental role in our existence by regulating everything from breathing, sleeping ...

Aug 15, 2016

0

25

Long-lived parents could mean a healthier heart into your 70s

The longer our parents lived, the longer we are likely to live ourselves, and the more likely we are to stay healthy in our sixties and seventies. Having longer-lived parents means we have with much lower rates of a range ...

Aug 15, 2016

0

12

No blue light, please, I'm tired—light color determines sleepiness versus arousal in mice

Light affects sleep. A study in mice published in Open Access journal PLOS Biology shows that the actual color of light matters; blue light keeps mice awake longer while green light puts them to sleep easily. An accompanying ...

Aug 15, 2016

0

79

China facing epidemic of heart disease, stroke

A 20-year rise in cardiovascular disease (CVD) in China appears to have been spurred largely by increases in high blood pressure, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Increasing body mass ...

Aug 15, 2016

0

4

Beta-blockers following angioplasty show little benefit for some older patients

Following coronary angioplasty, beta-blockers did not significantly improve mortality rates or reduce the number of future cardiovascular incidents for older patients with stable angina but no history of heart attack or heart ...

Aug 15, 2016

Incentive payments increased quit rates among low-income smokers in Switzerland

Paying smokers to quit with payments that increased with the length of abstinence led one third of participants in a study to stop smoking for six months, according to research published today in the Journal of the American ...

Aug 15, 2016