Are drones disturbing marine mammals?
Credit: COPYRIGHT: MURDOCH UNIVERSITY CETACEAN RESEARCH UNIT Marine researchers have made sure that their research drones aren't disturbing their research ...
A kiss of death — mammals were the first animals to produce venom
Credit: Wits University Africa is a tough place. It always has been. Especially if you have to fend off gigantic ...
Superconductivity with two-fold symmetry — new evidence for topological superconductor SrxBi2Se3
Credit: ©Science China Press The study on topological superconductors (TSCs) is one of the hotspots in the field of condensed ...
Understanding enzymes
For researchers studying the possible connections between human health and the trillions of microbes that inhabit our digestive tract, what ...
Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public
The search for planets beyond our solar system is about to gain some new recruits. Today, a team that includes ...
Manchester researchers enter the ‘Wild West’ of chemistry to reveal a surprise finding
Researchers at The University of Manchester have entered the "Wild West" of the periodic table to finally solve a decades-old ...
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of key anti-cancer protein
Credit: Chen et al., 2017 Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York have discovered that a protein called ...
Researchers identify ‘Achilles’ heel’ of PTEN that helps drive prostate cancer progression
Credit: Trotman Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that a ...
Blood test provides clues to bladder cancer patients’ prognoses
New research indicates that about one-quarter of patients with bladder cancer treated with radical surgery on curative intent have detectable ...
Epstein-Barr virus and cancer: New tricks from an old dog
After an infection with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus persists in the body throughout a person's lifetime, usually without ...
Brian Luke awarded a Heisenberg Professorship
Brian Luke, a Group Leader at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, has been awarded a prestigious Heisenberg ...
Researchers develop first reliable technique to track web users across browsers
For good or ill, what users do on the web is tracked. Banks track users as an authentication technique, to ...
USC computer scientist to explain socially intelligent robots on Feb. 17
WHAT: A University of Southern California computer scientist will present her research on socially assistive robots on Friday, Feb. 17 ...
Accelerated chlorophyll reaction in microdroplets to reveal secret of photosynthesis
Credit: DGIST DGIST announced that the research team of the fellow Hong-Gil Nam and the research team of Professor Richard ...
New ‘blood biopsies’ with experimental device may improve cancer diagnosis and follow-up
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Feb. 13, 2017) - A team of investigators from Cedars-Sinai and UCLA is using a new ...
New software will standardize data collection for great white sharks
Credit: Sara Andreotti, Identifin The lack of a standardized procedure for collecting data about elusive and hard to find species ...
Organo-metal compound seen killing cancer cells from inside
Credit: University of Warwick Cancer cells seen to be targeted and killed from the inside with metal-based compound discovered by ...
Will androids dream of quantum sheep?
Credit: Mile Gu and Jayne Thompson / Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi ...
A new platform to study graphene’s electronic properties
Credit: IBS Graphene's unusual electronic structure enables this extraordinary material to break many records of strength, electricity and heat conduction. ...
Russian scientists created a new technology for varicose treatment
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Researchers of the Center for Advanced Studies of Peter the Great St. Petersburg ...
