Rush Hour Pollution May Be More Dangerous Than You Think In-car air study of commuting cars finds dangers to human health
'Pocket Ariely' App Compiles Professor’s Work To Help People Make Better Decisions Professor Dan Ariely has devoted his career to studying human behavior and understanding why...
Helping Robots Learn to See in 3-D Robots need to guess what they’re seeing better, even when parts are hidden from view DURHAM, N.C. -- Autonomous robots can inspect nuclear power plants, clean up oil spills in the...
Live-In Grandparents Helped Human Ancestors Get a Safer Night’s Sleep Study of hunter-gatherers suggests variation in sleep may have helped our ancestors survive the night DURHAM, N.C. -- A sound night’s sleep grows more elusive as people get older. But what...
Risk-Reducing Mastectomy Questioned for BRCA Mutation Carriers with Prior Ovarian Cancer Study finds little survival benefit and high costs from the preventive procedure
Large-Scale, Collaborative Effort Could Help Ease Global Hearing Loss Rising rates of hearing loss demand better access to preventions and treatments
Antibodies Halt Placental Transmission of CMV-Like Virus in Monkeys The finding advances a human vaccine for CMV, which afflicts 1 million babies a year
New Antibody Appears to Re-Activate Immune System in Cancer Therapy A small study suggests adding the antibody to a chemotherapy could bolster effects
