New study confirms the power of Deinosuchus and its ‘teeth the size of bananas’
Credit: Adam Cossette A new study, revisiting fossil specimens from the enormous crocodylian, Deinosuchus, has confirmed that the beast had ...
NSF CAREER award to bolster cyberinfrastructure performance
Credit: Virginia Tech "It is often said that a decade in computer science is a century in other sciences," said ...
Breast cancer cells use message-carrying vesicles to send oncogenic stimuli to normal cells
Pro-tumorigenic messages reprogram mitochondrial function in normal cells to promote migration and invasion.Credit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA -- (Aug. 10, ...
Theoretical study shows that matter tends to be ordered at low temperatures
Scientists found that in actual materials, there's no such thing as a critical point at which a quantum phase transition ...
New USask-led research reveals previously hidden features of plant genomes
Credit: David Stobbe SASKATOON - An international team led by the Plant Phenotyping and Imaging Research Centre (P2IRC) at the ...
Engineers enlist fungi to advance against disease
Federal grant helps Rice's Gao lab find gene-editing strategies to counter drug resistanceCredit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Aug. 10, ...
Explosive nuclear astrophysics
Credit: Argonne National Laboratory Analysis of meteorite content has been crucial in advancing our knowledge of the origin and evolution ...
NIST’s SAMURAI measures 5G communications channels precisely
Credit: Hammer/NIST Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a flexible, portable measurement system to ...
Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...
NASA infrared data confirms depression became Tropical Storm Elida
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL After Tropical Depression 09E formed near the coast of southwestern Mexico, infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite ...
Cannabis use in pregnancy linked to a greater risk of autism
Credit: The Ottawa Hospital In the largest study of its kind, Ottawa researchers found that children whose mothers reported using ...
NASA sees compact Tropical Storm Jangmi exiting East China Sea
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Jangmi was exiting the East China Sea and moving toward the Sea of Japan when ...
Miscarriage risk increases each week alcohol is used in early pregnancy
Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Each week a woman consumes alcohol during the first five to 10 weeks of pregnancy ...
Retesting for COVID-19: UPMC shares its experience
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10, 2020 - In the first large, multicenter analysis of its kind, the 40-hospital UPMC health ...
Imaging method highlights new role for cellular “skeleton” protein
Molecules of actin help control the division of mitochondria, with implications for diseaseCredit: Salk Institute/Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center LA JOLLA--(August ...
Individual differences in the brain
If selection reinforces a behavior, brain activities soon change as wellCredit: MPI of Neurobiology / Kuhl Personality varies widely. There ...
Breaking molecular traffic jams with finned nanoporous materials
New porous catalyst with ultra-small fins facilitates molecular transportCredit: University of Houston and J.C. Palmer Thousands of chemical processes used ...
Personal connections key to climate adaptation
Credit: Dean Miller. Connections with friends and family are key to helping communities adapt to the devastating impact of climate ...
Detailed molecular workings of a key system in learning and memory formation
UMass Amherst team discovers new regulatory role for a calcium-tuning proteinCredit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - One of the new ...
Quantitative Science Studies Journal to participate in transparent peer review
Credit: The MIT Press The MIT Press announced today that Quantitative Science Studies (QSS), the official open access journal of ...
