Study: Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better
LAWRENCE -- Adults often bemoan the amount of time young people spend staring at a screen and browsing social media....
Forest regeneration experiment of 30 years yields results
Credit: Roseann Densmore A spruce forest regeneration experiment in Interior Alaska that spanned nearly 30 years demonstrates which forest management...
NSF-funded center at Purdue could help power US for next century
Credit: (Purdue University photo) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The National Science Foundation has chosen Purdue University to lead an engineering...
Researchers identify critical molecular link between inflammation and diabetes
A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) has uncovered how inflammation contributes...
Microscope invented at marine biological laboratory illuminates chromosomal ‘dark matter’
Credit: From Imai et al (2017) DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E17-06-0359 WOODS HOLE, MASS.-- Using a microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory...
Army scientists discover power in urine
Credit: Photo Credit: David McNally, ARL Public Affairs ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory...
TSRI study reveals new clues to how a successful HIV vaccine could work
LA JOLLA, CA - September 12, 2017 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a discovery that...
Virginia Tech biochemists dip into the health benefits of olives and olive oil
Credit: Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The health benefits of olives-- and associated natural products such...
Farming fish
Steephead parrotfish (Chlorurus microrhinos) are picky eaters. In the central Pacific, however, they appear to have taken matters into their...
Poll: Majority of Americans say tackle football is unsafe for young kids
LOWELL, Mass. - A majority of Americans believe it is not safe for children to play tackle football before they...
Preeclampsia may boost heart disease risk by altering blood vessels
Preeclampsia may permanently change the blood vessels of women who experience the condition during pregnancy, boosting their lifelong risk for...
NIH awards $15 million to support development of 3-D human tissue models
More than 60 percent of investigational drugs fail in human clinical trials due to a lack of effectiveness, despite promising...
USDA announces more than $8.6 million to support community food projects
WASHINGTON, D.C September 12, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today...
UT faculty member helps identify new species of prehistoric crocodile
Credit: Stephanie Drumheller-Horton Around 95 million years ago, a giant relative of modern crocodiles ruled the coastlines and waterways of...
Superior pathological diagnosis using transparent tissues
Credit: 2017 Nojima S. et al. Scientific Reports, 7:9269, 1-14. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09117-0 (Osaka, Japan) To some, the idea of invisibility...
Mitochondrial metastasis suppressor pathway controls tumor cell metabolic reprogramming
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 11, 2017) -- A novel mitochondrial variant of the protein Syntaphilin, or SNPH, which orchestrates the choice...
Osimertinib improves progression-free survival in patients with EGFR mutated lung cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September, 2017 - Osimertinib improves progression-free survival by 54% compared to standard first line therapy in patients with...
Abemaciclib initial therapy improves outcome in endocrine-sensitive advanced breast cancer
LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - The results of the MONARCH 3 trial, presented at the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid...
To improve health monitoring, simply trip the ‘nanoswitch’
Engineered strands of DNA -- nanoscale tools called "nanoswitches" -- could be the key to faster, easier, cheaper and more...
Smoking slowly changes lung cells to increase the odds for cancer
Cigarette smoke causes epigenetic changes in lung cells that prime them to develop cancer, and researchers can now observe how...
