UC Davis Native American studies professor receives Mellon Foundation Fellowship
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Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to 10 meters
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‘Nesting doll’ minerals offer clues to Earth’s mantle dynamics
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Rescue protein gives doomed cells a stay of ‘execution’
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Ernie intensify
Credit: Credits: NASA The storm formerly known as tropical cyclone 15S, now called Tropical Cyclone Ernie continued to strengthen as ...
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère receives NSF honor for young faculty
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NYU professor wins award for research into sustainable clothing manufacturing
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Ovarian cancer patients get access to life-extending drug
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Driver privacy can be compromised in usage-based insurance systems
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PET radiotracer design for monitoring targeted immunotherapy
Credit: Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University In an article published in the April issue of "The Journal of Nuclear ...
A moldable scaffold for bone
Credit: Texas A&M University Troy, N.Y. - A team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is developing a new material ...
Pitt designs new wheelchair powered by compressed air
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USDA announces $4.2 million to repay educational loans for veterinarians
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USDA announces funding to support 1890 land-grant universities
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 6, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...
Puffins that stay close to their partner during migration have more chicks
Credit: Dr Annette Fayet Puffin pairs that follow similar migration routes breed more successfully the following season, a new Oxford ...
ERC advanced grant for Carl-Philipp Heisenberg
Credit: IST Austria With two newly awarded Advanced Grants, the total number of ERC-funded projects at the Institute of Science ...
Satellites map carbon sequestered by forests, with accuracy of up to ten meters
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Graphene Flagship researches create thin film transistors printed with layered materials
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin. Graphene Flagship researchers from AMBER at Trinity College Dublin have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely ...
In-car cow avoidance
Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The ...
ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al. 1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies ...
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