Scientists have recently discovered that the temporal pole region of the brain surface has critical functions in word comprehension, face recognition and the regulation of behavior. It is interesting to note that researchers struggled to link a specific function to this region of the brain for the first 100 years of research on the cortex.

Kathryn Macapagal, an associate professor of medical social sciences and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine has stressed that social media is not universally harmful for the youth but in fact has many advantages especially for teens that are LGBTQ, immunocompromised or have disabilities.

Niobium-graphene batteries have been developed by the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials at the National University of Singapore and CBMM. Currently being tested at the high-tech CBMM-CA2DM Advanced Battery Laboratory in Singapore, these batteries can be used in various applications such as medical devices, electric vehicles, aerospace equipment, etc.

A link between noisy road traffic with air pollutant and an increased chance of hypertension — a top risk factor for heart attack and stroke — has been identified by University of the West of Scotland (UWS) researchers.

Throw a tantrum. Threaten, shove aside or steal from your colleagues. Science confirms, yet again, that brutish behavior can be an effective path to power. And not just in humans, but in chimpanzees, too.

Wearable devices such as smart watches could be used to detect a higher risk of developing heart failure and irregular heart rhythms in later life, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.

Researchers have developed a novel way to detect whether a person follows a Mediterranean diet using a blood test and, applying this method, have shown that a Mediterranean diet is associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

Many fluid-based wearable assistive technologies today require a large and noisy pump that is impractical — if not impossible — to integrate into clothing. This leads to a contradiction: wearable devices are routinely tethered to un-wearable pumps. Now, researchers at the Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) in the School of Engineering have developed an elegantly simple solution to this dilemma.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin played a vital role in introducing a new blood test which can check for brain injuries without the use of CT scans. The FDA has also approved this technology as the first commercially available laboratory test for traumatic brain injury in the U.S.

A viable formula for a carbon-negative, environmentally friendly concrete that is nearly as strong as regular concrete has been developed at Washington State University. The research could significantly reduce carbon emissions of the concrete industry, which is one of the most energy- and carbon-intensive of all manufacturing industries.