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Credit: ESA / ATG medialab North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It...

Scientist receives $3.5 million NIH grant to study pain-relief and cannabis

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...

Bowel cancer rates after colonoscopy vary by provider

Credit: University of Leeds A colonoscopy is the main test used to detect bowel cancer, but like most tests, it...

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...

Secondary surgery does not improve overall survival for recurrent ovarian cancer patients

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported that secondary tumor-reduction, or...

Lab-wide sustainability efforts win federal recognition