New internet addiction spectrum: Where are you on the scale? Young people (24 years and younger) spend an average of six hours a day online, primarily using their smartphones, according to new research. Older people (those 24 years and older) spend 4.6 hours online. Read more …New internet addiction spectrum: Where are you on the scale?
A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state A new machine-learning approach helps scientists more efficiently identify the optimal intervention to achieve a certain outcome in a complex system, such as genome regulation, requiring far fewer experimental trials than other methods. Read more …A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state
Distributed workload in the fly brain To distinguish motion patterns, a neuronal computation is performed three times in a row. Read more …Distributed workload in the fly brain
Plant chloroplasts promise potential therapy for Huntington's disease A chloroplast enzyme safeguards plants against pathological protein aggregation that causes Huntington’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. New research may have found a way to 'copy' the mechanism for application in human cells. Read more …Plant chloroplasts promise potential therapy for Huntington's disease