UK steel production to benefit from efficiency innovation
Credit: WMG/University of Warwick WMG research to make UK steel production cheaper, and cut energy consumption by 300% Belt casting...
Study uncovers details of information processing in the brain
Credit: Dawn Graves EDMONTON (Monday, December 5, 2016)--You're in a crowded lecture theatre. Around you are a million tiny distractions:...
Smoking down, number of lives saved up as more countries embrace tobacco control measures
Credit: GUMC WASHINGTON (Dec. 12, 2016) -- Between 2008 and 2014, more than 53 million people in 88 countries stopped...
What is the most effective treatment for endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia?
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, December 12, 2016--A new study comparing the effectiveness of oral progestogens...
Enzyme that regulates DNA repair may offer new precision treatments for breast and ovarian cancer
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an enzyme called UCHL3 that regulates the BRCA2 pathway, which is...
Scientists work to improve the diet and energy of failing hearts
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (Dec. 12, 2016) - Our hearts use fat for fuel but as with the rest...
EMBO Installation Grants to support 10 researchers in establishing laboratories
Credit: EMBO "Through the Installation Grants we encourage some of the best early-career researchers to share their expertise across Europe...
Predator invasion had devastating, long-term effects on native fish
Credit: Diana Sharpe In 1969, 60 to 100 peacock bass imported from Buga, Colombia, were introduced into a pond in...
Winds of rubies and sapphires strike the sky of giant planet
Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick Weather detected on HAT-P-7b - a planet 16x larger than Earth, over 1000 light years...
ALMA finds compelling evidence for pair of infant planets around young star
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); A. Isella; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) Astronomers now know that our galaxy is teeming with planets, from rocky...
Rings around young star suggest planet formation in progress
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 12, 2016) - Rice University astronomers and their colleagues have for the first...
Researchers’ discovery of new verbal working memory architecture has implications for AI
The neural structure we use to store and process information in verbal working memory is more complex than previously understood,...
‘Rewired’ cells show promise for targeted cancer therapy
Credit: Northwestern University A major challenge in truly targeted cancer therapy is cancer's suppression of the immune system. Northwestern University...
Loss of ARID1A protein drives onset and progress of colon cancer
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. - December 12, 2016) A team of scientists has developed a model system in mice that allows them...
Pitt engineers receive $500,000 award from NASA to advance additive manufacturing
Credit: Albert To/Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (December 12, 2016) ... Additive manufacturing (AM) researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's...
New heart imaging test identifies improved outcomes in patients with amyloidosis
(Boston) -- Researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) have reported that a new heart imaging test can determine whether cardiac...
A $5 fix for a nasty parasite
Credit: Ryan Hulvat The life of a watershed is complex. The watershed is the area of land separating the smaller...
Mountain glaciers are showing some of the strongest responses to climate change
Credit: A. Lambrecht/World Glacier Monitoring Service Mountain glaciers have long been a favorite poster child of climate change. The near-global...
Spinning black hole swallowing star explains superluminous event
Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser In 2015, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) detected an event, named ASASSN-15lh,...
Leibniz Prize awarded to RNA researcher Jörg Vogel
(University of Würzburg) It is considered the German equivalent of the Nobel Prize: the Leibniz Prize awarded by the Deutsche...
