Month: April 2017

Credit: Provided by: Alexander Mordvintsev, Christopher Olah and Mike Tyka In 1968, sociologist Jean Baudrillard wrote on automatism that "contained ...

Boston Medical Center is now generating much of its own electricity and heat through a natural gas-fired, 2 megawatt combined ...

Credit: Masahiro Yoshimoto Nagoya, Japan - A Nagoya University-led team reveals the mechanisms behind different earthquakes at a plate boundary ...

Credit: University of Konstanz In nature, bacteria occur mostly in multi-cellular collectives, rather than as individuals. They are capable of ...

Credit: Dr. Nadya Velikova Antimicrobial resistance is a major societal problem as there are resistant bacteria to any antibiotic available, ...

Wednesday, April 26, 2017, London, UK - The Biogerontology Research Foundation, a registered UK charity today announced that its Chief ...

A highly sensitive method that can detect even the earlier stages of colorectal cancer has been developed by researchers in ...

Contrary to popular perception, a new study by Boston University professor Christopher Salas- Wright finds that youth violence is declining--and ...

Tiny particles in air pollution have been associated with cardiovascular disease, which can lead to premature death. But how particles ...

Add another typical component of the Italian way of life to the long list of foods characterizing one of the ...

Nanodiamonds - synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size - have recently attracted considerable attention because of the ...

Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely used pesticide can ...

Credit: University of Basel, Transfaculty Research Platform Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences The body's immune system performs essential functions, such as ...

Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists write in Nature Communications it may be possible to therapeutically fine tune a constantly ...

WASHINGTON (April 26, 2017)--A new study examining medical provider attitudes toward prescribing PrEP to prevent HIV found that those who ...

(Aarhus University) Newborn humpback whales 'whisper' to their mothers to avoid being overheard by killer whales, researchers have discovered. The ...

Geneva, Switzerland, April 26, 2017 - Lung cancer patients treated with PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors may be at increased risk of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 25, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...

Credit: Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long ...

Credit: © Jean-Marc Alliot - IRIT (CNRS/INP Toulouse/Université Toulouse Paul Sabatier/Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Université Toulouse Capitole). The ELO system, which ...