Optimizing proton beam therapy with mathematical models
New model improves our understanding of energy transfer in radiotherapy treatment plans by replacing 50-year-old parameters with more complex ones...
Prebiotic chemistry: Stable majorities
How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with...
Researchers developing early detection, home monitoring tests for lupus nephritis
Transformative research empowering patients to monitor themselvesCredit: University of Houston With $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of...
European Geosciences Union meeting: ExoMars press conference, live streams, on-site registration
EGU 2019 media advisory 4 Next week (7-12 April), some 14,000 scientists will gather in Vienna for the 2019 General...
President Bruce Stillman wins prestigious Gairdner Award
Credit: ©Gina Motisi, 2018/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Dr. Bruce Stillman, President and CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...
Sun, moon and sea as part of a ‘seismic probe’
Tides and surf can be used for non-destructive analysis of subsurface; study highlighted by American Physical SocietyCredit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ...
App enables smallholder farmers to be community influencers and citizen scientists
The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information on climate-related agricultural interventions. Development agencies...
Can delayed/extended-release methylphenidate allow for once daily evening dosing in ADHD?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 2, 2019--A new three-part study showed that a delayed-release, extended-release...
Turbulences theory closer high-energy physics than previously thought
Many scientists have been disappointed that no new elementary particles have been discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider since the...
Should I stay or should I go?
Kyoto University sheds light on social drivers of animal dispersalCredit: Kyoto University/Andreia Martins Why would boys and girls choose different...
Brain imaging associated with change in management of patients with dementia, cognitive impairment
Bottom Line: Amyloid (abnormal protein) plaques in the brain are a feature of Alzheimer disease and imaging the brain with...
Understanding stock market returns: Which models fits best?
Understanding stock market returns hinges on understanding their volatility. Two simple but competing models have been dominant for decades: the...
New machine learning model describes dynamics of cell development
In order to address this problem, researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Massachusetts use pseudodynamics, a...
More children for the high educated: Broadband Internet creates a digital fertility divide
When broadband comes to town, flexible work is boosted and work-life balance improves for educated women, who can choose to...
Slight decline in hepatitis C diagnoses in Europe
European surveillance data for 2017 show high level of diagnosesCredit: ECDC European surveillance data show a 10% decrease in newly...
Searching for better treatments for irritated tendons
Researchers learn what makes tendons fray in old age, knowledge that could help develop better treatments for tendinosis and regrow...
Low-bandwidth radar technology provides improved detection of objects
New Tel Aviv University research breaks with long-held principles used in developing radar technologiesCredit: Nature Communications. Radar technologies were originally...
The number of people affected by food crises remains at alarming levels
More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018,...
New study demonstrates radio signal benefits from decades-old theory
Engineering researchers have demonstrated that a longstanding theoretical method called direct antenna modulation (DAM) has real-world utility for boosting the...
Insects in freezing regions have a protein that acts like antifreeze
Special protein changes the structure of water and overpowers ice crystals, and could be used in applications like de-icing airplanes,...
