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Credit: UN Environment Frankfurt / Nairobi - As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record ...

EU Excellence Award for research on matter-antimatter plasma

Credit: Graphic: IPP The European Research Council (ERC) is awarding 2.4 million euros in support of the research on a ...

Buckle up! Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence

Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences; image credit: Paul Williams Turbulence strong enough to catapult unbuckled passengers and crew around the ...

Further reductions in radiotherapy to young children with brain tumors less successful

Credit: CHLA A team of investigators has determined that young children participating in a clinical trial to assess the effectiveness ...

For horseshoe bats, wiggling ears and nose makes biosonar more informative

Credit: Logan Wallace/Virginia Tech Humans, and most other mammals, have just four muscles joining their ears to their head. Bats ...

Living in an area with high air pollution may impact women’s breast density

A study of nearly 280,000 women in the United States has found that living in areas with a high level ...

Project Hotspot

Credit: J.A. Kessler, The Geological Society of America, and Lithosphere Boulder, Colo., USA: In their study published in Lithosphere this ...

Chemical sensor on the basis of materials possessing molecular memory created

Credit: Vita Nikitina Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have elaborated an electrochemical sensor ...

£10 million deal to boost impact of animal science innovations

(University of Edinburgh) Innovations that improve the health of farmed animals and raise agricultural productivity will be brought to market ...

Neuro Kinetics announces another breakthrough in eye tracking assessment and technology

PITTSBURGH, PA (April 5, 2017) -- Neuro Kinetics, Inc. (NKI), the global leader in clinical eye tracking and neural functional ...

Study examines effects of spaceflight on immune system

Credit: NASA Getting sick isn't fun for anyone, but it could be especially taxing for crew members aboard the International ...

USDA announces $6.3 million in available funding to combat childhood obesity

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...

USDA announces $1.2 million to support aquaculture research projects

WASHINGTON, D.C. April 5, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...

Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa

Next time you bite into a chocolate bar, think of Africa. The continent produces nearly 70 percent of the world's ...

Lego figures don’t stand a chance against time reversal

Credit: Brigham Young University A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the ...

NJIT engineer wins an NSF CAREER grant to advance next-generation batteries

Credit: NJIT Mechanical engineer Siva Nadimpalli is targeting a key roadblock in the development of high-capacity, affordable and long-lived batteries ...

A one-two punch hits pancreatic cancer where it hurts

Loading video... Garvan Institute researchers used cutting-edge intravital microscopy techniques to peer directly into pancreatic tumors inside a living animal, ...

When the doctor recommends against the surgery a breast cancer patient wants

Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan - More women with breast cancer are electing to have both breasts removed, even ...

Biomarker could lead to personalized therapies for prostate cancer

COLUMBIA, Mo. - In 2016, more than 181,000 new cases of prostate cancer were reported in the U.S., according to ...

Deep sleep may act as fountain of youth in old age