Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage
Credit: Dennis Roach, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As manufacturers build more wings, fuselages and other major commercial aircraft...
Taste bud maintenance in mice requires Hedgehog signaling
Credit: Charlotte M. Mistretta and colleagues. Disruptions in the Hedgehog signaling pathway can interfere with taste bud maintenance in mice,...
Many primary care doctors are reluctant to talk about medical errors, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--While most primary care physicians would provide some information about a medical error, only a minority...
UT professor develops algorithm to improve online mapping of disaster areas
Credit: Yingjie Hu KNOXVILLE--When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more...
It takes less than a second to tell humans from androids
It can be hard to tell the difference between humans and androids in such sci-fi TV shows as "Westworld." But...
DOE funds advanced manufacturing of superconductor wire for next generation machines
Credit: University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering With their potential for big savings through increased energy efficiency and reduced...
Study reveals lack of supporting evidence for claims about fertility treatments
Many claims made by UK fertility clinics about the benefits of treatments beyond standard IVF procedures are not backed up...
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 Vanderbilt Prize recipient
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of...
NIAID-sponsored study to assess shorter-duration antibiotics in children
Physicians at five U.S. medical centers are planning to enroll up to 400 children in a clinical trial to evaluate...
Bullying rates remain higher for children with disabilities, even as they mature
COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 22 percent of children ages 12-18 say they have been bullied in school within the...
Iraq-Afghanistan veterans with epilepsy more at risk of death
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans (IAVs) with epilepsy were more than twice as likely...
Stem cells police themselves to reduce scarring, Stanford study finds
Treating mice with a compound that increases the expression of an inactive protein helped them heal from injury with less...
Study says CT use OK for some colon cancers, yet challenging for lymph node involvement
Leesburg, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 -- CT has good sensitivity for the detection of colon cancers with tumors that have...
RIT professor wins grants from the Moore Foundation
Rochester Institute of Technology professor Moumita Das has won seed funding for cutting-edge research that explores mitochondrial DNA and intercellular...
Warwick and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of Warwick and Waitrose, thanks...
ADSA announces 2017 annual meeting symposia and workshops
Thanks to the hard work of the ADSA members who submitted proposals, the program committee chairs, and the chairs of...
Testing early warning signals for crises, in lakes
Wouldn't it be great if we could tell the state of an ecosystem or the like - whether it's healthy...
An exercise in good health
A new Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association led by Queen's University professor Robert Ross provides unequivocal evidence to...
How kids’ brains respond to a late night up
Any parent can tell you about the consequences of their child not getting enough sleep. But there is far less...
Pine product offers fresh take on fine chemical synthesis
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 28, 2016) - The goop from pine trees that contains compounds known as...