Undersea robot reveals ‘schools’ of animals in deep scattering layers
Credit: Image courtesy Kelly Benoit-Bird MOSS LANDING, CA--Throughout the world ocean, animals congregate at certain depths, forming layers that can...
Dissolvable device could make closing surgical incisions a cinch
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Malaria drug protects fetal mice from Zika virus, NIH-funded study finds
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Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time
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Stanford researchers observe unexpected flipper flapping in humpback whales
When Jeremy Goldbogen, an assistant professor of biology at Stanford University, affixed recording devices to humpback whales, it was with...
Phase II Ssudy: Radiotherapy dose increase to hypoxic NSCLC lesions
Credit: QuantIF - LITIS EA 4108 - FR CNRS 3638, Henri Becquerel Cancer Center, Rouen, France RESTON, Va. - Fluorine-18...
Houston team one step closer to growing capillaries
Credit: Rice University In their work toward 3-D printing transplantable tissues and organs, bioengineers and scientists from Rice University and...
New way to predict when electric cars and home batteries become cost effective
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Touchscreen test reveals why some birds are quicker to explore than others
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Kansas State University researchers help with landmark study of wild wheat ancestor
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CNIO scientists link new cancer treatments to cardiovascular alterations
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New book provides guide to evidence-based practices in addiction treatment
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Marshall School of Medicine team publishes longitudinal work on pneumonia
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Working the [immune] system
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Scientists name new species of fish from the Orinoco region after singer Enya
CORVALLIS, Ore. - In 1988, Irish singer and songwriter Enya released a lead single titled "Orinoco Flow" from her second...
NIH-funded team uses smartphone data in global study of physical activity
Credit: T Althoff et al, Stanford University Using a larger dataset than for any previous human movement study, National Institutes...
Wyss Center joins $19M project to engineer brain-computer interface network
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Dr. John Buster inducted into ACOG Hall of Fame
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Survey reveals widespread bias in astronomy and planetary science
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Age and obesity conspire to damage the tiny blood vessels that feed the heart, causing heart failure
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