STEM News from Around The World

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  People with Type 2 diabetes who eat breakfast later, more likely to have a higher BMI

  April 17, 2018

  Being an “evening person” is linked to higher body mass indices among people with Type 2 diabetes, and having breakfast later in the day seems to be what drives this association, according to a new [...]
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  From Insulator To Conductor In A Flash

  April 17, 2018

  Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical limits that [...]
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  Seven-year follow-up shows lasting cognitive gains from meditation

  April 8, 2018

  Gains in the ability to sustain attention developed through intensive meditation training are maintained up to seven years later, according to a new study published in the Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. The study is based on [...]
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  New blood test can predict TB up to two years in advance

  April 8, 2018

  A new blood test has been found to more accurately predict the development of tuberculosis up to two years before its onset in people living with someone with active TB, according to research published online [...]
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  How birds can detect the Earth’s magnetic field

  April 8, 2018

  he receptors that sense the Earth’s magnetic field are probably located in the birds’ eyes. Now, researchers at Lund University have studied different proteins in the eyes of zebra finches and discovered that one of [...]
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  A new class of antibiotics to combat drug resistance

  April 8, 2018

  Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics. The antibiotic, [...]