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Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University...

Legos and origami inspire next-generation materials

Credit: Credit: Nan Yang, Jesse L. Silverberg. Inspired by the fun of playing with Legos, an international team of researchers...

The IT-LIVER European consortium unveils new TGF-beta functions in liver cancer

Credit: IDIBELL Recent research results from the TGF-beta and cancer research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), within...

University of Illinois announces new partnership with ZEISS labs@location program

Credit: Kathryn Faith A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of...

Cattle associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems, Virginia Tech researchers say

Credit: Virginia Tech Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to...

Subaru telescope detects the shadow of a gas cloud in an ancient proto-supercluster

Credit: Osaka Sangyo University / NAOJ A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University,...

Seabird bones, fossils reveal broad food-web shift in North Pacific

Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on...

Seasonal warming leads to smaller animal body sizes

Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely...

Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking

Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and...

Key research priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified

Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a...

Georgia Cancer Center participates in NCI-driven initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in 6 cancers

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 28, 2017) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a...

System better allots network bandwidth, for faster page loads

A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for...

Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade

Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National...

Highway to health: WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops

Loading video... Credit: Washington State University/Ross-Elliott et al. eLife 2017;6:e24125 PULLMAN, Wash. - Almost every calorie that we eat at...

Igniting a solar flare in the corona with lower-atmosphere kindling

Credit: NJIT Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms...

Researchers shoot for success with simulations of laser pulse-material interactions

Credit: ORNL With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study...

Rarely studied gene USF3 plays role in predisposition to thyroid cancer

Credit: Cleveland Clinic March 27, 2017, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic and her team have discovered that...

Tiny bacterium provides window into whole ecosystems

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT...

Fighting world hunger: Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance

Loading video... Credit: MU News Bureau Developing drought tolerant corn that makes efficient use of available water will be vital...

New method heats up ultrasonic approach to treating tumors