1,100 plants examined in massive, 9-year genomic diversity study
Six scientists with UT involved in effort to assess 1 billion years of plant evolutionCredit: Photo by A. Petlewski, Cornell ...
A new hazelnut has cracked its competitive marketplace
'PollyO' is proving to be a desirable hybridCredit: Shawn Mehlenbacher Researchers from Oregon State University have completed an examination of, ...
Malaria parasite lives on the edge
Risky strategy prepares the parasite for the unexpected but could be exploited to fight the deadly diseaseCredit: Penn State The ...
Bats in Northeast India carry filoviruses that can infect humans
Credit: Dr Zavei Hiese Researchers have proposed that bats are the natural reservoir of filoviruses, including highly fatal Ebola and ...
Measles virus infection destroys immune system memory
Credit: G. Xu et al./Science 2015 Measles is more harmful than scientists once suspected. An analysis of blood from 77 ...
UCF researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang
Knowing the criteria behind the Big Bang explosion will be key for models scientists use to understand the origin of ...
Lehigh University art galleries receives institute of museum and library services grant
Lehigh University's art museum is among 18 US institutions to receive prestigious grant from IMLS, the primary source of federal ...
Unlocking the black box of embryonic development
International collaboration improves method for culturing primate embryos to learn more about human developmentCredit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming University of Science and ...
NASA sees development of Tropical Storm Maha at southwestern India Coast
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Maha has developed near the coastline of southwestern India and NASA's Terra satellite provided ...
Movement and flow: Simulating complexity of fluids and strands in the virtual world
New method to be presented at SIGGRAPH AsiaCredit: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Simulating the physics behind the movement of liquids and ...
NASA microgap-cooling technology immune to gravity effects and ready for spaceflight
Credit: NASA/Franklin Robinson A groundbreaking technology that would allow NASA to effectively cool tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight ...
NASA finds small area of heavy rain left in Tropical Cyclone Kyarr
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kyarr appears to be winding down as it moves through the Arabian Sea and NASA ...
Training in mental ill-health a determinant of managers’ preventive actions
Credit: Photo by Cecilia Hedstrom Managers who have received training in mental health issues, and whose workplaces run general information ...
Dynamic transition of the blood-brain barrier in the development of non-small cell lung cancer brain
The cover for issue 59 of Oncotarget features Figure 9, 'A schematic representation of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), brain around ...
WFIRST will add pieces to the dark matter puzzle
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) The true nature of dark matter is one of ...
Zoo animal research skewed towards ‘popular’ species
Credit: Paul Rose Research on zoo animals focuses more on "familiar" species like gorillas and chimpanzees than less well known ...
Evading Heisenberg isn’t easy
Credit: I. Shomroni, EPFL. The limits of classical measurements of mechanical motion have been pushed beyond expectations in recent years, ...
Mutated form of DNA repair protein may shed light on its role in preventing cancer
Credit: Clemson College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Two trillion times each day, the cells in a typical human ...
Cocktail proves toxic to leukemia cells
Rice University, MD Anderson research points toward better personalized therapyCredit: Kirienko Lab/Rice University HOUSTON - (Oct. 31, 2019) - A ...
Study finds racial disparities in culturally competent cancer care
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- Many non-white minority cancer survivors place importance on seeing doctors who share or understand ...
