Mayo research shows surgery adds years for kidney cancer patients
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that surgery could more than double life expectancy for many patients with ...
A plastic-eating caterpillar
Credit: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris Howe Generally speaking, plastic is incredibly resistant to breaking down. That's certainly true ...
A CSIC scientist discovers that wax worms eat plastic
Loading video... Credit: César Hernández/Ainhoa Goñi A research scientist at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Federica Bertocchini, has discovered ...
Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution
Credit: César Hernández/CSIC Scientists have found that a caterpillar commercially bred for fishing bait has the ability to biodegrade polyethylene: ...
Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy developed at WPI
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, ...
First-ever direct observation of chiral currents in quantum Hall atomic simulation
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Using an atomic quantum simulator, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...
Next-generation microscopy
Credit: Vladimer Gregory/CeMM (Vienna, April 24, 2016) Our immune system consists of a great variety of cell types fulfilling diverse ...
Nanoparticle vaccine shows potential as immunotherapy to fight multiple cancer types
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April 24, 2017 - Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a first-of-its-kind nanoparticle ...
Gallbladder cancer rates decreasing in men, not women; late-stage diagnosis on the rise
Credit: Justin Kelley, University of Missouri Health Gallbladder cancer is a rare, but aggressive disease. According to the Centers for ...
Images of health risks make indoor tanning messages more effective
CHAPEL HILL -- Although the health risks associated with indoor tanning are clear, tanning bed use among college-aged women is ...
Growth under pressure: New metamaterial designed with counterintuitive property
Loading video... Credit: Jingyuan Qu, Muamer Kadic, and Martin Wegener WASHINGTON, D.C., April t24, 2017 -- In the not-too-distant future, ...
After the death of a friend, healing in a human social network
Credit: Will Hobbs Wounds heal - the cells in a body knit over a cut. When a neuron dies, the ...
Robot radiology: Low cost A.I. could screen for cervical cancer better than humans
Artificial intelligence--commonly known as A.I.--is already exceeding human abilities. Self-driving cars use A.I. to perform some tasks more safely than ...
Russian scientists create new system of concrete building structures
Credit: Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University Professor of the Institute of Civil Engineering of Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic ...
Early career scientist receives recognition from Microscopy Society of America
Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Rengasayee "Sai" Veeraraghavan, a research assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, became the ...
From abundant hydrocarbons to rare spin liquids
Credit: Kosmas Prassides Fuel such as petrol is made up of hydrocarbons -- a family of molecules consisting entirely of ...
Chip-based nanoscopy: Microscopy in HD quality
Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University/Robin Diekmann This information can be used to produce images with a resolution of about 20 to ...
NASA’s Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of Sun’s interaction with galaxy
Credit: Dialynas, et al. New data from NASA's Cassini mission, combined with measurements from the two Voyager spacecraft and NASA's ...
Photosynthesis in the dark? Unraveling the mystery of algae evolution
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, Japan - Scientists have long studied which of the three primary photosynthetic eukaryotes (red algae, green ...
Tools for planning nature conservation in the European Union
Credit: Aija Kukkala Prioritising areas The needs of nature and humans are increasingly in conflict, and prioritisation is needed. How ...
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