UTA researcher shows computer users are overconfident when dealing with junk emails
Credit: UT Arlington UTA researchers show in a new study that people's confidence actually exceeds what they can achieve when ...
University of South Carolina researchers discover new subtype of cervical cancer
Credit: Carolyn Banister/University of South Carolina A team of University of South Carolina scientists led by Carolyn Banister and Phillip ...
Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun
Credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct ...
$10 million CDC grant funds center to fight vector-borne diseases
Managing mosquito-borne viruses, such as West Nile, Dengue, Zika and tick-borne Lyme disease have been a challenge due to lack ...
New molecular discovery may help identify drug therapies to prevent dementia
Rutgers University scientists have discovered a molecular pathway in the brain that may help provide answers to long-term memory problems ...
For viral predators of bacteria, sensitivity can be contagious
Credit: (Hebrew University / Cell) Bacteriophages (phages) are probably the most abundant entities in nature, often exceeding bacterial densities by ...
Penn paleobiologist Lauren Sallan selected as a 2017 TED Fellow
Credit: University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania's Lauren Sallan, an assistant professor in the School of Arts & Sciences' ...
Meet Canada’s ‘poop lady’
Credit: Catherine Girard They call her the "poop lady." Way up north in Canada's Resolute Bay, an Arctic hamlet of ...
Pretty in pink: Some algae like it cold
Credit: UC's Jeff Havig It may look pretty, but the swaths of delicately-colored, pretty "precipitation" may lead to an increase ...
UMD researchers share optimistic vision for Paris Climate Agreement
Credit: Springer Climate, 2017 In December 2015, the world's nations negotiated the Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to limit global ...
TSRI signs collaboration agreement with Pfizer to advance DNA-encoded library technology
LA JOLLA, CA - January 10, 2017 - The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), a leading non-profit biomedical research institute, today ...
Researchers reveal connection between female estrogen cycle and cocaine addiction
Hormonal fluctuations women undergo make them particularly sensitive, compared to men, to the addictive properties of cocaine, according to a ...
Study shows how marine microbes recycle iron from the debris of dead algae
Washington, DC - January 10, 2017 - A new study from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, ...
Wastewater treatment upgrades result in major reduction of intersex fish
Credit: University of Waterloo Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant along Ontario's Grand River led to a 70 per cent ...
New report finds significant improvements in methods to collect data on recreational fishing
WASHINGTON - Although individual anglers - people who fish recreationally - generally take small numbers of fish, collectively, a large ...
Inhibiting a DNA-repairing protein in brain could be key to treating aggressive tumors
Targeting a specific DNA-repairing protein in the brain could be an effective way to treat the most aggressive type of ...
New research suggests anti-viral role for aravive biologics’ anti-AXL candidate against Zika virus
Cell Reports publication highlights dual role of Gas6-AXL during ZIKA infection: promoting viral entry of glial cells in the developing ...
Couch potatoes face same chance of dementia as those with genetic risk factors: Research
Credit: McMaster University Sedentary older adults with no genetic risk factors for dementia may be just as likely to develop ...
Nothing fishy about better nutrition for mums and babies
Researchers from the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the University of Adelaide have found a way to ...
Byzantine skeleton yields 800-year-old genomes from a fatal infection
Credit: Gebhard Bieg MADISON, Wis. - Eight hundred years ago, in a hardscrabble farming community on the outskirts of what ...
