Marine ecosystems show resilience to climate disturbance
Credit: Jennifer O'Leary Climate-driven disturbances are having profound impacts on coastal ecosystems, with many crucial habitat-forming species in sharp decline. ...
Challenges of breeding ‘VIPeas’
Credit: Thomas Stefaniak. The small but mighty chickpea packs a dietary and environmental punch. They are an important source of ...
Research!America to honor Sen. Lamar Alexander for championing research and innovation
ARLINGTON, Va.--February 1, 2017--Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) has been selected to receive the Edwin C. Whitehead Award for Medical Research ...
Statement from ASH, AACR, AACI, ASTRO, ASPHO & LUNGevity Foundation on immigration order
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 1, 2017 -- As the world's leading organizations representing laboratory researchers, physician-scientists, clinicians, the nation's cancer centers, ...
Eating the placenta after childbirth — researchers explore perceptions of health benefits and risks
The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine () is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published online with open access options and ...
Sandia receives ENERGISE award to study how to help utilities better manage power systems
Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a three-year, $2.5 million award to ...
Shape of prostate and compartments within may serve as cancer indicators
Credit: Mirabela Rusu Preliminary computerized imaging reveals the shape of the prostate and a compartment within the gland--called the transitional ...
This Week from AGU: Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow
GeoSpace Coal mine dust lowers spectral reflectance of Arctic snow by up to 84 percent, new study finds Dust released ...
Controlling electron spin makes water splitting more efficient
One of the main obstacles in the production of hydrogen through water splitting is that hydrogen peroxide is also formed, ...
Potential new drug class hits multiple cancer cell targets, boosting efficacy and safety
MYC is a regulator gene. It controls the expression of other genes and codes transcription factors or proteins involved in ...
New type of PET imaging identifies primary and metastatic prostate cancer
Credit: Jingjing Zhang, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China Reston, Virginia -- In the featured article from the February 2017 ...
Gull decline on Scottish island linked to decline in fishing discards
Credit: by Tom Bickerton/BTO The research, published in the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) journal Bird Study, looked at the ...
Building up biomaterials: Michigan Tech researchers lead Forest Bioeconomy Conference
Biomaterials are any organic materials that can be cultivated or extracted from nature's ecosystems; any organic material extracted from the ...
What to expect from big pharma in 2017
Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved just 22 new therapeutic drugs, which is less than half the number ...
New study finds extensive use of fluorinated chemicals in fast food wrappers
Credit: University of Notre Dame/iStock Americans may be consuming fast food wrapped in paper treated with perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) -- ...
Cocktail of bacteria-killing viruses prevents cholera infection in animal models
BOSTON (Feb. 1, 2017)--Oral administration of a cocktail of three viruses, all of which specifically kill cholera bacteria, prevents infection ...
MIT’s wearable AI system can detect a conversation’s tone
Credit: Jason Dorfman, MIT CSAIL It's a fact of nature that a single conversation can be interpreted in very different ...
Researchers flip script for Li-Ion electrolytes to simulate better batteries
Credit: ORNL Ever since Italian physicist Alessandro Volta invented the first battery out of a stack of copper and zinc ...
UK’s new EPSRC Future Manufacturing Hub for advanced powder processes launches
Credit: @Helena Marie MAPP aims to realise the potential of advanced powder processes to provide low energy, low cost and ...
A cheaper way to make a WHO-designated essential medicine
A fungal form of meningitis leads to more than 600,000 deaths in Africa every year and is responsible for 20 ...
