Month: December 2016

SAN FRANCISCO--Scientists have found good strategies for curbing the toxic algae blooms that have threatened some of the nation's water ...

Credit: SurveyCTO CAMBRIDGE, MA - December 12, 2016 - Dobility today announced the launch of the SurveyCTO "Data Explorer," a ...

Loading video... Credit: Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can ...

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory SEQUIM, Wash. - Lowly sawdust, the sawmill waste that's sometimes tossed onto home garage floors ...

Credit: Credits: NASA MODIS Rapid Response/NOAA Tropical Cyclone Vardah made landfall in eastern India as the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite ...

Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser Back in 2015 when astronomers discovered an intense flare in a distant galaxy, they considered ...

James Webber took up barefoot running 12 years ago. He needed to find a new passion after deciding his planned ...

(TORONTO, Canada - Dec. 12, 2016) - Multi-institutional researchers investigating an incurable brain cancer in children have discovered three distinct ...

Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS, Dec. 12, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found that intermittent fasting ...

Berkeley Lab scientists will present on a number of topics including climate modeling challenges, projects on Arctic permafrost, induced seismicity, ...

Credit: Rush PhotoGroup A suPAR Root of Kidney Disease: Discovery may aid search for kidney disease treatment and prevent recurrence ...

One person in Australia develops diabetes every five minutes, with up to half suffering peripheral nerve damage, meaning the slightest ...

The after-effects of a stroke can be life changing. Paralysis, speech problems and memory loss occur in varying degrees of ...

An anesthetic injection like that given by a dentist numbs all feeling in the surrounding tissue. This is often the ...

Two new studies led by scientists at Oxford University have highlighted the threat posed to lions by human activity - ...

Credit: Image: Courtesy of Dr. Angeliki Tsagaratou, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. Members of the TET family of ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Dec. 12, 2016 -- The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a 5-year, $1.125 million grant to ...

Credit: MIPT's Press Office Scientists from the Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MIPT ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons The increased risk of hyperglycemia associated with prenatal exposure to famine is also passed down to the ...

Credit: Vladimir Dinets, research assistant professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. KNOXVILLE--Spectral bats, also called false vampire ...