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New model improves our understanding of energy transfer in radiotherapy treatment plans by replacing 50-year-old parameters with more complex ones...

How could prebiotic information-bearing DNA sequences survive in the face of competition from a vast excess of shorter molecules with...

Transformative research empowering patients to monitor themselvesCredit: University of Houston With $5 million in grants from the National Institutes of...

EGU 2019 media advisory 4 Next week (7-12 April), some 14,000 scientists will gather in Vienna for the 2019 General...

Credit: ©Gina Motisi, 2018/CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Dr. Bruce Stillman, President and CEO of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory...

Tides and surf can be used for non-destructive analysis of subsurface; study highlighted by American Physical SocietyCredit: C. Sens-Schönfelder, GFZ...

The GeoFarmer app allows community workers and smallholders to easily collect and share information on climate-related agricultural interventions. Development agencies...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 2, 2019--A new three-part study showed that a delayed-release, extended-release...

Many scientists have been disappointed that no new elementary particles have been discovered at CERN's Large Hadron Collider since the...

Kyoto University sheds light on social drivers of animal dispersalCredit: Kyoto University/Andreia Martins Why would boys and girls choose different...

Bottom Line: Amyloid (abnormal protein) plaques in the brain are a feature of Alzheimer disease and imaging the brain with...

Understanding stock market returns hinges on understanding their volatility. Two simple but competing models have been dominant for decades: the...

In order to address this problem, researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University of Massachusetts use pseudodynamics, a...

When broadband comes to town, flexible work is boosted and work-life balance improves for educated women, who can choose to...

European surveillance data for 2017 show high level of diagnosesCredit: ECDC European surveillance data show a 10% decrease in newly...

Researchers learn what makes tendons fray in old age, knowledge that could help develop better treatments for tendinosis and regrow...

New Tel Aviv University research breaks with long-held principles used in developing radar technologiesCredit: Nature Communications. Radar technologies were originally...

More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced acute hunger requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihoods assistance in 2018,...

Engineering researchers have demonstrated that a longstanding theoretical method called direct antenna modulation (DAM) has real-world utility for boosting the...

Special protein changes the structure of water and overpowers ice crystals, and could be used in applications like de-icing airplanes,...