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Professor identifies brain signature for negative emotion

Professor Luke Chang at Dartmouth College has identified a brain signature that can predict emotion with impressive accuracy. By applying machine learning techniques to fMRI data, he mapped…

Researchers discover the key to staying dry underwater

Oftentimes, the state of being “underwater” and being “wet” are used synonymously, but one can be wet without being underwater; and according to researchers at Northwestern University, one…

High levels of CO2 threaten oceans

                            The oceans, Earth’s great bodies of water, help keep the climate stable by stopping dramatic temperature…

Promising breakthrough in Cystic Fibrosis research: Nebulization of CFTR gene therapy

For the first time, a non-viral gene therapy in a phase 2 trial has been demonstrated to be advantageous to lung function in people afflicted with cystic fibrosis…

High testosterone levels in female athletes: Weighing in on the debate

In a recent case at the “Supreme Court of Sport” in Switzerland, female Indian sprinter Dutee Chand challenged a policy that prevents women with naturally high testosterone levels…