Cooperation among fishers can improve fish stock in coral reefs
Credit: Tim McClanahan, Wildlife Conservation Society Cooperation within a group of people is key to many successful endeavors, including scientific...
Stephenson Cancer Center physician is senior author on major study
Study shows ovarian cancer survival increaseCredit: OU Medicine OKLAHOMA CITY - A gynecologic oncologist at the Stephenson Cancer Center at...
Missing molecule hobbles cell movement
Cell motility is essential to proper development and to cancer metastasis; now researchers propose a target to control it Cells...
Stanford researchers’ artificial synapse is fast, efficient and durable
Credit: Armantas Melianas and Scott Keene The brain's capacity for simultaneously learning and memorizing large amounts of information while requiring...
Study finds that collaborating with business contributes to academic productivity
Results of survey involving more than 1,000 researchers were presented to 8th Annual Meeting of Global Research Council in São...
Study asks patients’ input to improve the hospital experience
Credit: UT Health San Antonio SAN ANTONIO - American hospitals engage in continuous quality and safety improvement, but information remains...
DNA test is an effective cervical cancer screening tool for women in low-income countries
Effective cervical cancer screening initiative by Dartmouth researchers in Honduras identifies different human papillomavirus types than those in the USCredit:...
Industry-ready process makes plastics chemical from plant sugars
MADISON, Wis. -- Developing renewable, plant-based alternatives for petroleum-derived chemicals is a major piece of the effort to transition away...
New holographic technique opens the way for quantum computation
Credit: F. Carbone/EPFL Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is also a...
Paul Sajda awarded DoD’s Vannevar Bush Fellowship
Credit: Eileen Barroso for Columbia Engineering New York, NY--May 2, 2019--Paul Sajda, professor of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology,...
Bottom-up approach can synthesize microscopic diamonds for bioimaging, quantum computing
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Scientists are excited about diamonds -- not the types that adorn jewelry, but the microscopic...
Research shows cattle ranching could help conserve rare African antelope, lions
Credit: Douglas Kamaru Endangered African antelope and the lions that prey on them may benefit from certain cattle ranching practices...
First demonstration of antimatter wave interferometry
Credit: © LHEP / AEC, University of Bern Matter waves constitute a crucial feature of quantum mechanics, where particles have...
What the wheat genome tells us about wars
Credit: © Nature Genetics - Pont/Duchemin/Armisen First they mapped the genome of wheat; now they have reconstructed its breeding history....
Nanoscale thermometers from diamond sparkles
A novel, non-invasive technique that uses quantum light to measure temperature at the nanoscale has been developed Being able to...
Tiny droplets open the doors to in-flight imaging of proteins
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated the creation of a beam of nanodroplets capable of delivering a variety of...
RIT professor develops microfluidic device to better detect Ebola virus
Work done by mechanical engineering professor can be used to pre-screen for the virus A faculty-researcher at Rochester Institute of...
NASA reveals heavy rainfall in Tropical Cyclone Fani
Credit: NASA/JAXA/Jacob Ree Satellite data revealed heavy rainfall in powerful Tropical Cyclone Fani before it made landfall in northeastern India....
New approach could accelerate efforts to catalogue vast numbers of cells
Data-sampling method makes 'sketches' of unwieldy biological datasets while still capturing the full diversity of cell types Artistic sketches can...
Army pushes for higher speeds in future tiltrotor aircraft
Credit: David McNally HAMPTON, Va. -- The U.S. Army is developing a new wind-tunnel testbed that will help future tiltrotor...
