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In-car cow avoidance
Driverless cars are hitting the headlines across the globe but for the foreseeable future we will still have drivers. The...
ALMA captures dramatic stellar fireworks
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally/H. Drass et al. 1350 light years away, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter), lies...
Image release: ALMA captures explosive star birth
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), J. Bally; B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Gemini Observatory/AURA Star birth can be a violent and explosive event, as...
Grant to support research aimed at benefitting patients with IBD
Credit: UCR School of Medicine. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease of the intestine...
Device boosts interaction between light and motion
Credit: Thiago Pedro Mayer Alegre Optomechanical devices, which simultaneously confine light waves and mechanical waves to permit interaction between them,...
UTSA student-led team receives NSF grant to develop vein-finding medical device
Credit: UTSA A student-led team from The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is the beneficiary of a $50,000...
A new parameterization of canopy radiative transfer for land surface radiation models
Credit: Feng Zhang Among the physical processes of land surfaces, canopy radiative transfer is especially important. It plays a key...
CD38 gene is identified to be important in postnatal development of the cerebral cortex
Credit: Kanazawa University Cells in the brain are categorized roughly into two; neurons and the others, namely, glial cells. It...
‘What do old books smell like?’ — Preserving smells as important cultural heritage
A 'Historic Book Odour Wheel' which has been developed to document and archive the aroma associated with old books, is...
Next Generation TimeTree: An expanded history of life on Earth at your fingertips
Credit: Temple University Temple University's scientists Sudhir Kumar and S. Blair Hedges, of the Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine...
Patients on HeartMate 3 have fewer blood-related events than those on HeartMate II
Credit: Abbott A six-month analysis of the pivotal MOMENTUM 3 trial found that patients implanted with the new HeartMate 3...
156 early career engineering researchers to journey to frontiers of their fields
Credit: NSF/Google Maps Today, 156 early career engineering faculty begin a five-year journey that will take them to the frontiers...
Researchers create new diagnostic tool for detecting breast cancer
Loading video... Credit: SFU Simon Fraser University researchers have created a patent-pending, optical diagnostic probe capable of safely and non-invasively...
Mount Sinai study reveals how learning in the present shapes future learning
Neurons in the prefrontal cortex "teach" neurons in the hippocampus to "learn" rules that distinguish memory-based predictions in otherwise identical...
Homing system delivers drugs to specific neurons
Loading video... Credit: Mike Tadross, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Biomedical engineers have developed a way to deliver drugs to...
A NASA infrared look at the Southern Indian Ocean’s 15th tropical cyclone
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Cyclone 15S in the Southern Indian Ocean and...
Cardiologist warns against dissolvable stents in NEJM
Credit: Photo by Tommie Morelos/TTUHSC El Paso. EL PASO, Texas -- In a New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) editorial...
Salk scientists expand ability of stem cells to regrow any tissue type
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 6, 2017) When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean...
Lenvio Inc. exclusively licenses ORNL malware behavior detection technology
Credit: Jason Richards, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn., April 6, 2017 - Virginia-based Lenvio Inc. has...
Distinct bacterial communities share nutrients for the common good
Credit: Jintao Liu, Suel lab, University of California, San Diego While researchers have not known whether bacteria in separate populations...
