Why a single nuke’s impact shouldn’t only be measured in megatons
Credit: Public domain As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new...
Fungi can be used as biomonitors for assessing radioactivity in our environment
Credit: UEx Radioactive contamination is the unwanted presence of radioactive substances in the environment. Our environment is contaminated by naturally-occurring...
EPSRC announces £138 million investment in research-business partnerships
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Two major investments in research partnerships that will strengthen the links between the UK's...
Testing a soft artificial heart
Credit: ETH Zurich It looks like a real heart. And this is the goal of the first entirely soft artificial...
Why Japan’s coastal zones might be disappearing due to climate change
As G20 Summit 2017 drew to a close, the issue of climate change divided the world. As it happened, 19...
Chillier winters, smaller beaks
Credit: Charles Davies; Flickr Although Charles Darwin lived and worked in the 19th century, modern evolutionary biologists are far from...
New imaging technique able to watch molecular dynamics of neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Sophie Brasselet, Institut Fresnel, CNRS, Aix Marseille Université WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a fast and practical molecular-scale imaging...
Can sexual risk and behaviors among women help explain HIV disparities by race/ethnicity?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 13, 2017 -- Researchers examined the sexual behaviors of a...
UCSF Health affiliates with Golden Gate Urgent Care
UCSF Health has signed an affiliation with Golden Gate Urgent Care (GGUC) to collaborate in providing top-quality urgent care in...
Ancient plankton-like microfossils span 2 continents
Credit: by Dorothy Oehler on a sample provided by Maud Walsh (Louisiana State University Large, robust, lens-shaped microfossils from the...
Squirrels have long memory for problem solving
Squirrels can remember problem-solving techniques for long periods and can apply them to new situations, researchers have discovered. University of...
Tiny cellular antennae key to fat formation in muscle
Credit: Daniel Kopinke Like it or not, as we age, our muscle cells are slowly exchanged, one by one, for...
How social rank can trigger vulnerability to stress
Stress is a major risk factor for a range of psychopathologies. However, stress does not affect everyone equally: in the...
How neurons sense our everyday life
Credit: King's College London Researchers from King's College London have discovered a molecular mechanism that enables neuronal connections to change...
Largest study of malaria gene function reveals many potential drug targets
The malaria parasite's success is owed to the stripping down of its genome to the bare essential genes, scientists at...
Zika vaccine protects fetus against infection and birth defects
GALVESTON, Texas - Immunizing female mice with a Zika vaccine can protect their developing fetus from infection and birth defects...
New report presents national strategy to reduce opioid epidemic
WASHINGTON - Years of sustained and coordinated efforts will be required to contain and reverse the harmful societal effects of...
Study by UTA professor shows many parents in the dark about concussions
Despite the large volume of information about sports related concussions on the Internet, many parents and guardians of young athletes...
Babies with hearing loss form better vocabulary with early intervention
Credit: Christine Yoshinaga-Itano Children with hearing loss who are diagnosed by 3 months of age and receive interventions by 6...
Cancer researchers become first in UK to access latest genome sequencing technology
UK scientists now have access to a new kind of next-generation genome sequencing machine which could revolutionise their research to...
