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Exploring the mysteries of the universe
Credit: University of Cologne American, German, and Canadian scientists are planning to explore the formation of stars and galaxies as...
Are biobank donor families worried about a confidentiality breach?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 5, 2017-A new study examines how well families that donate...
Four Tufts University faculty win national awards for science and engineering
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (April 4, 2017) - Tufts University announced today that four faculty members won 2017 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER)...
Students use analytics, operations research to help solve world hunger
LAS VEGAS, NV, April 4, 2017 - With the backdrop of a fast-growing growing global population and looming challenges to...
Bright future ahead for African plant biosecurity network
Credit: Plant Biosecurity CRC 5 April 2017 - The fourth Africa Plant Biosecurity Network workshop, held in Lusaka, Zambia from...
DFG establishes 17 new priority programs
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 17 new Priority Programmes for 2018. Priority Programmes aim to advance...
Trial: Abiraterone acetate responses even after initial hormone therapy failure
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Patients with metastatic prostate cancer whose PSA levels remain high despite initial hormone treatments...
Victor Malka awarded the 2017 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Victor Malka (École Polytechnique Palaiseau/Weizmann Institute) for his...
New technology could offer cheaper, faster food testing
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The foodborne pathogen Escherichia coli O157 causes an estimated 73,000 illnesses and 60 deaths every year in...
Whiteflies provide insight into stabilizing manmade drones during takeoff
When whiteflies take off, they don't just spread their wings and fly. Just .03 of an inch long, these tiny...
Potentially explosive methane gas mobile in groundwater, poses safety risk: U of G study
Credit: G360 - University of Guelph Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and...
Predicting the limits of friction: Sandia looks at properties of material
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing....
Algorithms can exploit human perception in graph design
Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Aalto University Algorithms can now exploit models and measures of human perception to...
Sonochemistry: New opportunities for green chemistry
Credit: World Scientific How does the use of ultrasound affect chemical reactions? Can scientific advancement and environmental sustainability go hand...
Love it or hate it: Marmite may affect brain function
Scientists at the University of York have discovered a potential link between eating Marmite and activity in the brain, through...
Carbon nanotubes self-assemble into tiny transistors
Credit: Arjen Kamp Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle....
Breakthrough telescope to map origins of stars, galaxies and the ‘cosmic dawn’
Credit: Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany ITHACA, N.Y. - A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter...
No sugar coating, but sweet nonetheless
Credit: Source: Christian Böhler, Maria Asplund Complex neurotechnological devices are required to directly select and influence brain waves inside the...
73% of academics say access to research data helps them in their work; 34% do not publish their data
Combining results from bibliometric analyses, a global sample of researcher opinions and case-study interviews, a new report reveals that although...
Phase II trial: Rice bran adds microbiome diversity, slows growth of colon cancer cells
Credit: William A. Cotton/CSU Photography Today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2017, University of Colorado...
