Month: August 2020

Credit: Crystal Shin Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals -- especially those that live close to ...

New era in brain monitoring technology

New technology could improve diagnosis of epilepsy and lead to personalized treatment options.Credit: Wyss Center GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Today, the ...

First complete dinosaur skeleton ever found is ready for its closeup at last

Credit: John Sibbick The first complete dinosaur skeleton ever identified has finally been studied in detail and found its place ...

Premature deaths from alcoholic liver disease rising as gap between men and women narrows

Since the early 2000s, alcoholic liver disease deaths among non-Hispanic whites, particularly women, have increased more rapidly than rates among ...

Continuous infrared winds discovered during the eruption of a stellar mass black hole

Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC). Until now, these flows of material had been detected only in other wavelength ranges, ...

Char application restores soil carbon and productivity

Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Kaiser. Intensively tilled soils have lost up to 50% of their original C with the ...

Fabrication of a single-crystal giant magnetoresistive device on a polycrystalline film

Technique may promote practical use of high-performance magnetoresistive devices comprising half-metallic heusler alloysCredit: NIMS NIMS and AIST have jointly succeeded ...

Transatlantic partnership to connect world researchers to solve cancer’s toughest problems

Cancer Research UK and the US National Cancer Institute , are uniting to define a new era in cancer research ...

Researchers discover gene controlling nectar spur development

POPOVICH gene controlling development of nectar spur in AquilegiaCredit: Courtesy of Elena Kramer The evolution of novel features - traits ...

NASA examines powerful Major Hurricane Laura headed for landfall

Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview During the afternoon of Aug. 26, as major Hurricane Laura nears landfall near the Texas/Louisiana border, ...

University of Sydney commits to climate action, sustainability

Ambitious targets to help change our worldCredit: University of Sydney The University of Sydney has announced it is committing to ...

Lung cancer trial of RET inhibitor selpercatinib achieves durable responses in majority of patients with RET gene fusions

Phase I/II trial finds targeted therapy effective in heavily pretreated patients and those with brain metastasesCredit: The University of Texas ...

New treatment possibilities for young women diagnosed with rare form of ovarian cancer

Credit: PHSA A recent finding by researchers at the BC Cancer Research Institute and the University of British Columbia (UBC) ...

Thermodynamics of computation: A quest to find the cost of running a Turing machine

Credit: Kolchinksy and Wolpert, Turing machines were first proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936, and are a theoretical ...

Carnegie Mellon named NSF planning institute for artificial intelligence in physics

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University has received a $500,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...

Placenta can indicate how body responds to opioids during pregnancy

University of Missouri scientists discover possible biological markers for identifying opioid use disorder.Credit: University of Missouri Scientists at the University ...

Additional data on blood thinner efficacy for COVID-19 and insight on best possible regimens

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Mount Sinai researchers were among the first to show that ...

Native desert bighorn sheep in ecologically intact areas are less vulnerable to climate change

Credit: Tyler Creech CORVALLIS, Ore. - In the American Southwest, native desert bighorn sheep populations found in landscapes with minimal ...

Researcher gets $100,000 COVID-19 grant to study enzymes critical for SARS-CoV-2 replication

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Christopher Basler, professor and director of the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis in the Institute for ...

Learning how one element–zinc–helps millions of nerve cells communicate