A new parameterization of canopy radiative transfer for land surface radiation models
Credit: Feng Zhang Among the physical processes of land surfaces, canopy radiative transfer is especially important. It plays a key ...
CD38 gene is identified to be important in postnatal development of the cerebral cortex
Credit: Kanazawa University Cells in the brain are categorized roughly into two; neurons and the others, namely, glial cells. It ...
‘What do old books smell like?’ — Preserving smells as important cultural heritage
A 'Historic Book Odour Wheel' which has been developed to document and archive the aroma associated with old books, is ...
Next Generation TimeTree: An expanded history of life on Earth at your fingertips
Credit: Temple University Temple University's scientists Sudhir Kumar and S. Blair Hedges, of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine ...
Patients on HeartMate 3 have fewer blood-related events than those on HeartMate II
Credit: Abbott A six-month analysis of the pivotal MOMENTUM 3 trial found that patients implanted with the new HeartMate 3 ...
156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields
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Researchers create new diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer
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Mount Sinai study reveals how learning in the present shapes future learning
Neurons in the prefrontal cortex "teach" neurons in the hippocampus to "learn" rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical ...
Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons
Loading video... Credit: Mike Tadross, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to ...
A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean’s 15th tropical cyclone
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone 15S in the Southern Indian Ocean and ...
Cardiologist warns against dissolvable stents in NEJM
Credit: Photo by Tommie Morelos/TTUHSC El Paso. EL PASO, Texas -- In a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) editorial ...
Salk scientists expand ability of stem cells to regrow any tissue type
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 6, 2017) When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean ...
Lenvio Inc. exclusively licenses ORNL malware behavior detection technology
Credit: Jason Richards, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 6, 2017 - Virginia-based Lenvio Inc. has ...
Distinct bacterial communities share nutrients for the common good
Credit: Jintao Liu, Suel lab, University of California, San Diego While researchers have not known whether bacteria in separate populations ...
Irish researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics
Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College ...
UMD-led study finds ancient Earth’s fingerprints in young volcanic rocks
Credit: USGS/J.P. Eaton Earth's mantle is made of solid rock that nonetheless circulates slowly over millions of years. Some geologists ...
Coming to a lab bench near you: Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy
Credit: Kristina Chang/Berkeley Lab The ephemeral electron movements in a transient state of a reaction important in biochemical and optoelectronic ...
156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields.
Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers ...
Study helps explain varying outcomes for cancer, Down Syndrome
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Aneuploidy is a condition in which cells contain an abnormal number of chromosomes, and is known to ...
WSU researchers improve technology to save sperm stem cells
Credit: Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.--Washington State University researchers have found a promising way to preserve sperm stem cells so ...
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