Month: October 2019

Credit: Mushroom Council Results from the first long-term cohort study of more than 36,000 Japanese men over decades suggest an ...

University of Arizona Health Sciences’ Monica Kraft and Marti Lindsey receive AZBio Awards

Monica Kraft, MD, named 2019 Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year; Marti Lindsey, PhD, named 2019 Michael A. Cusanovich Arizona ...

Military drills for robots

Army researchers test human-like robotsCredit: US Army photo ADELPHI, Md. -- Army researchers tested ground robots performing military-style exercises, much ...

Computer model helps make sense of human memory

Credit: OIST Brains are a mazy network of overlapping circuits -- some pathways encourage activity while others suppress it. While ...

SUTD physicists unlock the mystery of thermionic emission in graphene

SUTD researchers discover a new theory that paves the way for the design of better graphene electronics and energy converters.Credit: ...

Particles emitted by consumer 3D printers could hurt indoor air quality

Credit: Allison Carter Consumer-grade 3D printers have grown in popularity in recent years, but the particles emitted from such devices ...

Picoscience and a plethora of new materials

Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory New Haven, Conn. - The revolutionary tech discoveries of the next few decades, the ones that ...

The last mammoths died on a remote island

Credit: Juha Karhu The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000 years ...

UTA computer scientist leading effort to ensure quality, credibility of information

The battle against 'fake news'Credit: UT Arlington As claims of "fake news" proliferate, checking the truthfulness of information becomes more ...

$2.8 million grant will fund preclinical study of new dementia treatment

Credit: UK Photo | Mark Cornelison LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 7, 2019) -- The Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has received a ...

New photovoltaic research partnership spans countries, disciplines

USA, Ireland and Northern Ireland to shine new light on solar technologiesCredit: Marco-Alexis Chaira, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, Oct. ...

Anesthetizing fish may affect research outcomes

Anesthetics may alter coloration in certain fish species, influencing the traits researchers are trying to studyCredit: Kolluru lab Fish use ...

New insights into the genomic landscape of meningiomas identified FGFR3 in a subset of patients with favorable prognoses

The identification of oncogenic mutations has provided further insights into the tumorigenesis of meningioma and the possibility of targeted therapyCredit: ...

Salk scientists find way to quantify how well cutting-edge microscopy technique works

New approach helps researchers determine the resolution of cryo-EM, leading to better methods of imaging proteinsCredit: Salk Institute In 2017, ...

Optical imager poised to improve diagnosis and treatment of dry eye disease

New non-invasive instrument images layers of the eye's protective tear film with speed and precisionCredit: AdOM Advanced Optical Methods Ltd. ...

Researchers discover a link between two important products of nitric oxide

Oxide plays a key role in cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases as well as cancer; experiments reveal a hitherto unknown mechanism ...

Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science

Kwiat group achieves most efficient single-photon production everCredit: Siv Schwink/University of Illinois Department of Physics Over the last two decades, ...

Scientists find timekeepers of gut’s immune system

Targeting such cells may lead to treatments for digestive ailmentsCredit: Qianli Wang As people go through their daily and nightly ...

New bioinformatics hub at UChicago enables next-gen infectious disease research

NIH-funded resource merges pathogen databases and adds AI capabilitiesCredit: PATRIC/University of Chicago The most valuable weapon against the next deadly ...

Inhibition of histone deacetylase 2 reduces MDM2 expression and reduces tumor growth in dedifferentiated liposarcoma