How the brain responds to texture

VIDEO: Sliman Bensmaia and Justin Lieber take you inside the somatosensory lab, where they show you a rotating drum that can measure how 60 different textures feel against the skin. view more  Our hands and fingertips are amazingly sensitive to texture. We can easily distinguish coarse sandpaper from smooth glass, but we also pick up more…

Study finds a dearth of mental health interventions for ethnic minority youth in the US

VIDEO: Armando Pina, of the Arizona State University Department of Psychology, describes an upcoming study in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Pina, Antonio Polo from DePaul University, and… view more  Hispanic and Latino youth are more likely to drink alcohol at a younger age than their African-American and non-Hispanic Caucasian peers, but they…

Nitrogen gets in the fast lane for chemical synthesis

IMAGE: Rice University postdoctoral researcher Zhe Zhou is lead author of a paper on the discovery of a one-step method to turn silicon-based silyl enol ether into nitrogen-bearing alpha-aminoketones, valuable building… view more  Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON – (Feb. 8, 2019) – Rice University scientists have given organic chemists a boost with their latest discovery…