WVU-led study reveals uptick in suicide and fatal drug overdoses among blacks, Hispanics, women
Credit: Jennifer Shephard/West Virginia University To classify a death as a suicide, medical examiners and coroners rely on hard evidence, ...
Month: October 2019
Nanostics expands ClarityDX prostate clinical study into the United States
Nanostics is expanding its ClarityDX Prostate clinical validation study into the US by opening the Florida-based Century Clinical Research Inc. ...
Cooling nanotube resonators with electrons
Credit: © ICFO/ C. Urgell & W. Yang Mechanical resonators have been used with great success as new resources in ...
Forward or backward? New pathways for protons in water or methanol
Credit: MBI A collaborative ultrafast spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations study shows that proton vacancies in the form ...
Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018 finds NTU study
Credit: Gilles Brocard/University of Sydney Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in ...
A close up on the real world - atomic migration under ambient conditions
Researchers from Osaka University take a closer look at electrostatically driven reactions at metal surfaces under atmospheric conditionsCredit: Osaka University ...
BioAlchemy: Treating wastewater at the point of production
Credit: OIST Treating wastewater is an arduous process relying on complex sewage systems and treatment plants. While this is easier ...
EU-Japan project explores faster and safer ways to locate victims trapped under rubble
Credit: CURSOR In the wake of major disasters, where structures collapse or people get trapped in hazardous situations, the first ...
New approach for modern power grids that increases efficiency, reduces cost
SUTD worked with International Researchers to develop a novel approach to allow for a small, well-defined risk of constraint violation ...
Smaller than a coin
Credit: ETH Zurich / Pascal A. Halder Nowadays, a mobile phone can do almost anything: take photos or video, send ...
A simple way to control swarming molecular machines
Credit: Daisuke I. et al., ACS Nano. October 4, 2019 The swarming behavior of about 100 million molecular machines can be ...
Scientists have identified the presence of cancer-suppressing cells in pancreatic cancer
Credit: Yasuyuki Mizutani A research team led by Nagoya University has revealed that cells containing a protein called Meflin have ...
When laying their eggs, tobacco hawkmoths avoid plants that smell of caterpillar feces
An olfactory co-receptor allows moths to avoid intraspecific competitionCredit: Danny Kessler, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology Ovipositing insects use ...
UMD discovers new mechanism in the liver that helps prevent invasive fungal infections
Findings have implications for treatment of a variety of fungal infections, including the main cause of meningitisCredit: Nephron As a ...
Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest
Findings may lead to 'plant probiotic' and new antibioticsCredit: Dmitrii Y. Travin Scientists from Rutgers University and around the world ...
Thin to win
University of Utah engineers develop thin, lightweight lens that could produce slimmer camera phones, longer-flying dronesCredit: Dan Hixson/University of Utah ...
NCI-sponsored trial explores better treatment for brain tumors in children
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Oct. 8, 2019) Children with recurrent brain tumors or newly diagnosed, ...
The story of thalidomide continues
Molecular basis of drug's effects on limb and ear development revealedCredit: Nature Chemical Biology An international study co-authored by researchers ...
Machine learning helps plant science turn over a new leaf
Salk scientists use machine-learning algorithms to help automate plant studiesCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(October 7, 2019) Father of genetics Gregor ...
US firearm death rate rose sharply in recent years across most states & demographic groups
New analysis of 1999-2017 firearm deaths looks at changes in each state and within age, gender and racial/ethnic groupsCredit: Health ...
