Month: January 2020

Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Jan. 15, 2020 - A study involving tens of thousands of bariatric surgery patients found that gastric ...

Building materials come alive with help from bacteria

Credit: CU Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new approach to ...

New study on a recently discovered chlorophyll molecule could be key to better solar cells

Scientists uncover the location and functions of a new type of chlorophyll molecule for the first timeCredit: Tokyo University of ...

Active asteroid unveils fireball identity

Credit: NAOJ/Kasuga et al. At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, ...

Nitrogen-fixing genes could help grow more food using fewer resources

Credit: WSU Scientists have transferred a collection of genes into plant-colonizing bacteria that let them draw nitrogen from the air ...

Faster, cheaper tests for myopia possible

Leading cause of vision loss heads for epidemicCredit: ARVO The world's most common vision problem myopia or short/near sightedness, which ...

Multimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients

Credit: Jennifer Fairman and Valsamo Anagnostou, Johns Hopkins University Researchers at Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for ...

UMass Amherst researchers identify new mechanism involved in promoting breast cancer

Study found two cosmetics chemicals damage DNA of breast cells at low dosesCredit: UMass Amherst A new approach to studying ...

Scientists explain how leaf apex enhances water drainage

Credit: DONG Zhichao Chinese scientists have recently shown how the tiny apex structure in plant leaves controls water drainage and ...

Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life’s building blocks

ALMA and Rosetta map the journey of phosphorusCredit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Rivilla et al.; ESO/L. Calçada; ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM; Mario Weigand, www.SkyTrip.de Phosphorus, ...

It’s 2020: Time to teach teens ‘safe’ sexting

Credit: Florida Atlantic University Preaching sexual abstinence to youth was popular for a number of decades, but research repeatedly found ...

Sticky situation inside blood vessels can worsen stroke damage

Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Jan. 15, 2020) - A stroke appears to create a sticky ...

Are sinking soils in the Everglades related to climate change?

Credit: Andres Rodriguez Characterized by alligators, airboats and catfish, the Everglades is a region of swampy wetlands in southern Florida. ...

HIV ‘hotspots’ not necessarily major drivers of new infections

Credit: Kate Grabowski Areas of high HIV prevalence, known as 'hotspots', do not necessarily fuel the epidemic in the wider ...

UC Davis scientists provide novel strategies for parasitic weed control

Credit: Yaxin Wang, Daniel Steele, Maylin Murdock, Seigmund Lai, and John Yoder Parasitic weeds are among the world's most economically ...

Cat parasite reduces general anxiety in infected mice, not just fear of feline predators

Credit: Pierre-Mehdi Hammoudi and Damien Jacot The cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii is known to cause infected rodents to lose their ...

In mice, alcohol dependence results in brain-wide remodeling of functional architecture

Novel imaging technologies produce first whole-brain atlas at single-cell resolution, revealing how alcohol addiction -- and abstinence -- change neural ...

Who’s liable? The AV or the human driver?

Columbia researchers use game theory to help policy makers create liability rules for accidents involving self-driving cars and those driven ...

Including irregular time intervals improves animal movement studies

Credit: bighorn sheep, Lori Iverson - USFWS/flickr; cheetah - Bernard DuPont/flicker; black carpenter ants - Hughes Lab, Penn State; blue ...

UTEP receives $1M to increase number of students who pursue graduate engineering studies