Month: November 2019

Credit: UCLA Health Ziva Cooper, research director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, has been awarded a $3.5 million grant ...

Salk Institute receives Charity Navigator’s highest rating for ninth consecutive time

Status achieved by only three percent of nonprofitsCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 14, 2019) For the ninth consecutive time, the ...

‘Nudging’ heart patients to take their statins leads to better adherence and better outcomes

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Statins are an effective medication for treating patients with heart disease - they cut the risk of ...

Blocking a survival mechanism could tackle melanoma treatment resistance

Credit: the Babraham Institute The effectiveness of current treatments for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, could be improved ...

Inoculating against the spread of viral misinformation

Study of vaccine-related Facebook ads reveals ongoing challenges to public healthCredit: Kirian Villalta, UMD School of Public Health In a ...

Lehigh engineers designing a more efficient tidal turbine with NSF grant

Arindam Banerjee's lab uses innovative active grid turbulence generator to mimic water conditions of Verdant Power's Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy ...

NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station

Credit: Ben-Gurion U./Jeffery Gordon NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL...November ...

‘Are we alone?’ Study refines which exoplanets are potentially habitable

First study to combine 3D climate modeling with chemistry explores M dwarf planetsCredit: NASA/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/D. Aguilar Study is ...

Unhealthy habits can start young: Infants, toddlers, and added sugars

A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics breaks new ground by evaluating a nationally ...

No deliveries: How cells decide when to accept extracellular packages

Credit: Edward Partlow and Dr. Richard Baker Endocytosis, a fundamental process that cells use to take in macromolecules, functions a ...

Lab-wide sustainability efforts win federal recognition

Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has won a regional Federal Green Challenge award for ...

How giant kelp may respond to climate change

In a changing ocean, giant kelp's reproductive success depends on where it's fromCredit: Jordan Hollarsmith/UC Davis When a marine heat ...

NJIT biomedical engineer Tara Alvarez is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry

Credit: NJIT Tara Alvarez, a professor of biomedical engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) who studies the links ...

Study led by Tulane researchers outlines America’s losing battle to lose weight

Credit: Paula Burch-Celentano, Tulane University It comes as no surprise that Americans struggle with weight loss, but a new study ...

Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets

Credit: Graphic courtesy Blanka Janicek, Pinshane Huang Lab CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- New research by engineers at the University of Illinois ...

Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered

Researchers discovered a mechanism creating complex carbon molecules in a simulated planetary nebula environmentCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Scientists have long been puzzled ...

Rational transparent conductor design provides a boost to carbon nanotubes application

Credit: Skoltech An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Laboratory of Nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for ...

Can a UNICORN outrun earthquakes?

University of Tokyo team reconfigures solver, taps into Summit's AI architecture to accelerate earthquake applicationCredit: UTokyo Each year, anywhere from ...

NASA finds heavy rainfall along Central Philippine Coast from Tropical Depression Kalmaegi

Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Depression Kalmaegi continues moving west through the Philippine Sea and toward a landfall in the east central ...

NASA’s terra satellite sees fire and smoke from devastating bushfires in Australia