Brain activity to determine whether a subject is conversing with a specific speaker would be very useful for the hearing impaired. Using deep neural network models, researchers have made a breakthrough in auditory attention decoding methods and are coming closer to making cognitively controlled hearing aids a reality.

A mobile learning app that uses game elements such as leaderboards and digital badges may have positive effects on student academic performance, engagement, and retention, according to a new study. Researchers developed a fully customizable app that allowed lecturers to push quizzes based on course content directly to their students' devices in order to motivate them, increase their competitiveness, and keep them engaged with the course.

A study has found that deficits in the sense of smell are important contributors to the frequently observed lack of appetite in patients with serious kidney disease.

A new advance now offers the ability to construct vascularized tissue and mimic in vivo drug administration in 3-D bioprinted liver tissue. Scientists developed this relatively simple liver model to offer a more accurate system for drug toxicity testing.

Scientists have turned laser-induced graphene into a two-sided electrocatalyst that efficiently splits water into oxygen and hydrogen.

When does a person receive too much health information? What's the best way for health providers to convey information without consumers skipping over or forgetting key information? According to a new study, the answer lies in the goal of a specific health objective.

Young black women are more likely to have a type of breast cancer that does not express any of the receptors for targeted biologic therapies, an analysis of approximately 1,000 invasive breast tumors has confirmed. The study also identified variation by ethnicity within a clinical breast cancer type that has the greatest mortality disparity.

Mangrove trees, particularly their leaf litter, filter copper out of soil and water in Indonesia.

A multi-week regimen may be an effective complement to traditional therapy for depression, multiple studies suggest.

Many people in rural African communities still believe that disability is caused by supernatural forces, curses and as ‘punishment’ for wrongdoings, according to research.

A reversible alkali atom source has been developed that runs at low power and low voltage, which is beneficial in applications such as smaller, more efficient, and ultimately portable atomic clocks that use cold atoms.

Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double-take after pinpointing its location near Neptune's equator, a region where no bright cloud has been seen before. The discovery was made at dawn on June 26 as researchers were testing the Keck telescope to see whether it could make useful observations during twilight, a time most astronomers consider unusable because it's not dark enough.

A simpler procedure for collecting biopsy specimens during various procedures can improve patient care, research shows. Additionally, study indicates how a relatively new procedure, POEM, has been adapted to help an additional set of patients with gastroparesis, a troubling stomach problem.

An experimental drug protected mice from one of the many ills of our cheeseburger and milkshake-laden Western diet -- non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. The drug reversed liver inflammation, injury and scarring in animals fed a high fat, sugar and cholesterol diet. The diet was designed to replicate the Western fast food diet and recreate the features of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease found in people. The research team plans further testing to move it into human trials.

Where are baseball batters looking during the fraction of a second when a pitched ball is in their air? Their visual tracking strategies differ depending on whether they're swinging at the pitch, reports a study.