Designing a safer building block for drug discovery by harnessing visible light
Credit: The Stephenson Lab ANN ARBOR--When you reach for a bottle of acetaminophen, you may be looking for relief from...
Airline food study 2018
NEW YORK, NY (November 20, 2018) There will be more than 30.5 million passengers traveling during the 12-day Thanksgiving season...
Neurons process information differently depending on their location
Credit: Fletcher/Queensland Brain Institute Researchers at the University of Queensland have discovered that the thickness of the brain's outer layer...
Family dinners improve teens’ eating habits no matter how well family functions, study finds
Credit: (University of Guelph) A new University of Guelph study has revealed teenagers and young adults who sit down for...
Meta-surface corrects for chromatic aberrations across all kinds of lenses
Credit: Capasso Lab/Harvard SEAS Today's optical systems -- from smartphone cameras to cutting-edge microscopes -- use technology that hasn't changed...
Bots actually target and pursue individual influencers
Summary: New research co-authored by assistant research professor and associate director of Informatics at the University of Southern California Department...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Bouchra being blown apart
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Cyclone Bouchra may have been re-born over the...
NASA tracks Tropical Depression Toraji in the Gulf of Thailand
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Visible from NASA's Terra satellite revealed the extent of...
NASA sees Tropical Depression 33W affecting Philippines
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Depression 33W (33W) Visible imagery from NASA's Terra...
NASA sees Tropical Depression Man-yi, warnings triggered
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) ropical depression Man-yi for med in the Northwestern Pacific...
EMBO welcomes 26 new Young Investigators
Heidelberg, 20 November 2018 - EMBO has selected 26 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders...
Shelter dogs need weekends too — researchers awarded $1.7 million grant
Credit: Virginia Tech When separated, they've been known to travel thousands of miles to reunite with their human families. Their...
Among birds-of-paradise, good looks are not enough to win a mate
Ithaca, NY--Male birds-of-paradise are justly world famous for their wildly extravagant feather ornaments, complex calls, and shape-shifting dance moves--all evolved...
Australian mammals at greatest risk from cats and foxes, new study
Credit: Hugh McGregor / Arid Recovery New research led by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub has revealed which Australian mammals...
Why macrophages rest in healthy tissue
Credit: ETH Zurich/Nikhil Jain and Isabel Gerber Macrophages are a type of white blood cell. The term comes from the...
Neuroimaging study reveals ‘hot spot’ for cue-reactivity in substance-dependent population
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina When patients with dependence on alcohol, cocaine or nicotine are shown drug cues, or...
Studying water flow for more efficient aquaponic systems
Credit: Todd Guerdat WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2018 -- An aquaponic system is an example of an integrated farming method...
Machine learning can be used to predict which patients require emergency admission
Machine learning - a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to enable computer systems to 'learn' from data...
Get dressed!
Credit: Courtesy SIGGRAPH Asia Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or...
How reliable are search terms for SEO and SEM results?
CATONSVILLE, MD, November 20, 2018 - With billions of dollars spent each year on search engine optimization (SEO) and search...
