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Skin cancer finding provides hope for patients with rare type of melanoma
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- April 3, 2017 -- A team of researchers report a significant genetic association linked to an aggressive...
Surprise discovery of Europe’s first cave fish
Credit: Jasminca Behrmann-Godel Researchers reporting in Current Biology on April 3 have discovered the first European cave fish. A hobby...
Mutant lifestyles
Credit: Birgit Luef, Norwegian University of Science and Technology It's the stuff of science fiction, though there's nothing fiction about...
Deploying an ancient defense to kill cancer
Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service A recent small trial in 15 cancer patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas...
Google’s AI tool for video searching can be easily deceived
Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new tool that uses machine learning to automatically...
Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storage
Credit: Matthew Catenacci DURHAM, N.C. -- USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks...
Two Penn physicians awarded SU2C Immuno-Oncology Innovative Research Grants
PHILADELPHIA - Two doctors in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded Immuno-Oncology Innovative...
Stand Up to Cancer innovation grant funds MD Anderson microbiome study
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center An Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up to Cancer will help a University of Texas...
Research measures potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons,...
New technology could end costly crude oil pipeline blockages
Credit: Yao et al., 2015, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston Getting crude oil from the wellhead to its...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2017
Credit: Zhijia Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy COMPUTING - Quantum deep In a first for deep learning, an...
UTA assistant professor awarded APS’s Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award
Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, assistant professor of Physics at The University of Texas at...
Domesticated rice goes rogue
Credit: Ken Olsen A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals...
Study ids ways to encourage ‘refuge’ planting, slowing resistance to bt crops
A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of "refuge" cropland being planted...
Unique experiment set to reveal the effects of climate change on the forests of the future
Credit: Norbury Estate A major new decade-long experiment by scientists at the University of Birmingham to study the impact of...
Yale program empowering leaders in tropics receives $4.9 million Arcadia Grant
The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a Yale-based program that makes the latest tools and research in forest restoration...
Tiny plankton wields biological ‘gatling gun’ in microbial Wild West
Credit: Photo: Urban Tillmann. Researchers have obtained an unprecedented view of the 'ballistic' weaponry of planktonic microbes, including one that...
Multi-university effort to advance materials, define the future of mobility
Credit: Image: Photostock. Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science...
Blood vessels and the immune system talk to each other; implications for cancer treatment
Credit: Baylor Colleg of Medicine Some cancer therapies aim at stopping tumor growth by affecting the blood vessels that nurture...
Early climate ‘payback’ with higher emission reductions
Climate scientists at the Met Office Hadley Centre have shown that the early mitigation needed to limit eventual warming below...