Vegetation resilient to salvage logging after severe wildfire
Credit: Carl Skinner, US Forest Service Nearly a decade after being logged, vegetation in forested areas severely burned by California's ...
Protecting quantum computing networks against hacking threats
(University of Ottawa) As we saw during the 2016 US election, protecting traditional computer systems, which use zeros and ones, ...
Pilot study highlights role of grapes in preventing Alzheimer’s disease
FRESNO, CA - Consuming grapes twice a day for six months protected against significant metabolic decline in Alzheimer-related areas of ...
Finding the needle in a genomic haystack
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Feb. 3, 2016 -- Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have identified a genomic mutation ...
Dartmouth-led study finds mutual reinforcement of phenotypic diversity and cooperation
A new model exploring how evolutionary dynamics work in natural selection has found that phenotypic diversity, or an organism's observable ...
Quantum RAM: Modelling the big questions with the very small
Credit: Griffith University Griffith's Professor Geoff Pryde, who led the project, says that such processes could be simulated using a ...
Search smarter not harder: Researchers present optimal strategy for foragers
An engineer constructing wells in oil fields and an animal foraging for scarce food in the desert often face a ...
Hubble captures brilliant star death in ‘rotten egg’ nebula
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 ...
$2.2 million from state will help speed UCI research to commercial market
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 3, 2017 -- The University of California, Irvine has received $2.2 million ...
Atomic-scale view of bacterial proteins offers path to new tuberculosis drugs
Credit: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at the Rockefeller University/eLife With the first detailed analysis of a cellular component from a ...
Outstanding Investigator Award honors University of Chicago cancer researcher
University of Chicago cancer specialist Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, has been awarded an Outstanding Investigator Award by the National Cancer ...
Flipping the switch on ammonia production
Credit: Ross Milton Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process ...
Russian researchers developed high-pressure natural gas operating turbine-generator
Credit: Press photo Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed turbo expander electric generator operating on ...
Faster way of detecting bacteria could save your life
Credit: G.L. Kohuth, Michigan State University EAST LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University researcher has developed a faster way ...
Salicylic acid promotes nasal mucosa colonization
Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of ...
Surprise finding leads to new insights into splenic B cell differentiation
Belgian scientists have discovered the key role of protein Taok3 in the development of type B immune cells known as ...
Germanium outperforms silicon in energy efficient transistors with n- und p- conduction
Credit: NaMLab gGmbH A team of scientists from the Nanoelectronic Materials Laboratory (NaMLab gGmbH) and the Cluster of Excellence Center ...
Vilcek Prizes honor immigrants for outstanding contributions to biomedical science
New York, NY, February 3, 2017 -- The Vilcek Foundation is proud to announce that the 2017 Vilcek Prize for ...
Salicylic acid promotes nasal mucosa colonizati
Credit: Tom Grunert/Vetmeduni Vienna Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus ) can colonize the upper respiratory tract of around one quarter of ...
New research paints a merciless picture of life as a deaf-blind person
Credit: Photo: Eikholt/NKDB It is like being in a dirty glass jar, unable to reach out and with acquaintances passing ...
