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In an animal study conducted by the Society for Neuroscience, which was published in The Journal of Neuroscience on October 29, researchers provided a test group of adolescent rats with daily doses of alcohol. These rats were found to have displayed significantly lower levels of myelin in their prefrontal cortexes than did other rats that were given sweetened water. The shortage of myelin, a fatty
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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A research team from Ohio State University has invented a solar battery that runs on light and air. Professor Yiying Wu and his team have succeeded in combining a battery and a solar cell into one hybrid device. The team explains that this new device is constructed from a so-called “mesh solar panel”, which allows air to enter the battery, and special method of transferring electrons b
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:55
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Despite the common understanding that plants need sunlight to grow, a research team from Purdue University has succeeded in growing plants using only red and blue LED light. Farmers have been using high-pressure sodium lamps as a supplement to sunlight in greenhouses. Surprisingly, the seedlings grown under the LED light showed similar or, in some cases, better results than those grown in conventi
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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The University of Exeter and the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) have announced that the bird population across Europe has been substantially decreasing in a new study published in the journal Ecology Letters. In fact, a staggering 421 million individual birds have died over a relatively short period of 3 years, mostly as the tragic result of unsustainable human lifestyle. The
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 19:54
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A research team from Yonsei University has developed a new cultivation platform that can produce high quality three-dimensional (3-D) stem cell spheroids expected to be widely used in curing blood-vessel diseases. Professor Taeyoon Lee of the Electrical Engineering department and Professor Seungwoo Cho of the Biological Engineering department developed a superhydrophobic surface that allows water
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Jeong Yeon Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:51
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In this month’s issue of Food and Bioprocess Technology, a team from the University of Florida has announced that it is one step closer to achieving its goal of eliminating peanut allergens by removing 80% in whole peanuts. According to Professor Wade Yang, the lead author of this experiment, researchers must cut the number of peanut allergens to below a designated level for peanut-allergic
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:50
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On October 2, Matthias Gruber, a psychologist at the University of California, Davis, disclosed counter-intuitive links between curiosity and learning in his research, which was published online in Neuron, a neuroscience journal. The popular belief is that high curiosity leads to enhanced learning abilities, but the results also showed that the more curious participants were better able to learn c
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So Jung Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:50
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On August 6, a group of Princeton University researchers published a paper called “The Cerebellum, sensitive periods, and autism” in the neuroscience journal Neuron. The team proposed a new theory stating that an injury to the cerebellum during its early years potentially hinders its ability to process information that influence the development of other brain regions and leads to "
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Jung Wook Choi Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:49
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Researchers from Duke University have fashioned a “gigapixel whole-body photographic camera” out of 34 micro-cameras. The camera can image the whole human body and identify lesions on the skin that indicate skin cancer; the technology’s early detection of skin cancer drastically increases the chances of the patient’s recovery. According to researcher Daniel Marks, “a
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Young Jip Kim Staff Reporter
2015.06.03 17:46