Breakthrough discovery may make blood test feasible for detecting cancer
Credit: Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communications/Tom Campbell WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Doctors may soon be able to detect and monitor a...
Coffee shops, 24-hour ATMs the best locations for life-saving AEDs, research shows
Credit: Sun & Chan/U of T Engineering ATMs and coffee shops such as Tim Hortons, Starbucks and Second Cup make...
Parsley and other plants lend form to human stem cell scaffolds
Credit: Gianluca Fontana/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Borrowing from nature is an age-old theme in science. Form and function go hand-in-hand...
Dead zones may threaten coral reefs worldwide
Credit: Arcadio Castillo, STRI Dead zones affect dozens of coral reefs around the world and threaten hundreds more according to...
Mutants in microgravity
Credit: NASA/Frankie Martin Bacteria may mutate more rapidly in space and scientists theorize patterns of those mutations could help predict...
Protein could prevent brain damage caused by stroke
A small protein that could protect the brain from stroke-induced injury has been discovered by researchers from The University of...
Anti-bacterial discovery will prevent infections spreading on medical devices
Credit: Trinity College Dublin Microbiologists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered a new way to prevent bacteria from growing on...
People remain calm as the world ends, video game study suggests
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As the world ends, will you lock arms and sing "Kumbayah" or embark on a path of...
Chicago’s red-light camera program has significant safety benefits
Chicago's red-light cameras reduce serious injury crashes at intersections where they are placed and also have a measurable "spillover effect"...
How to make tomatoes taste awesome again (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 16, 2017 - Why are so many supermarket tomatoes tasteless and rock hard?...
NASA’s swift mission maps a star’s ‘death spiral’ into a Black Hole
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Some 290 million years ago, a star much like the sun wandered too close...
Orbital ATK Cygnus set to deliver research to space station
Credit: NASA Orbital ATK is targeted to launch its Cygnus spacecraft into orbit for a resupply mission to the International...
Altering pH bumps prions out of danger zone
Credit: Derrick Turner EAST LANSING, Mich. - Prion diseases are scary, incurable and fatal. They first gained notoriety when cows...
‘Flying saucer’ colloidal quantum dots produce brighter, better lasers
Credit: Kevin Soobrian LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 20, 2017-- A multi-institutional team of researchers from Canada and the US has...
Unforeseen impacts of the fair trade movement
Fair trade certified coffee is the kind of phrase that sounds good on a Whole Foods shelf, the type of...
‘Tree-on-a-chip’ passively pumps water for days
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Trees and other plants, from towering redwoods to diminutive daisies, are nature's hydraulic pumps. They are constantly...
Stem cells seem speedier in space
Credit: BioServe Inc., University of Colorado Growing significant numbers of human stem cells in a short time could lead to...
New catalysts mimic human vision
Credit: ICIQ Photoreceptors in vertebrates typically consist of two different, colourless parts: an organic pigment and a protein. When both...
Scientists find possible Achilles heel of treatment-resistant cancers
Credit: Cincinnati Children's CINCINNATI - Scientists identify two signaling proteins in cancer cells that make them resistant to chemotherapy, and...
How plants can tell friend from foe
Credit: 2017 Kyungmin Baeg, Hiro-oki Iwakawa, and Yukihide Tomari. The plant's immune system can recognize whether a piece of RNA...
