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Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade
Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National...
Highway to health: WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops
Loading video... Credit: Washington State University/Ross-Elliott et al. eLife 2017;6:e24125 PULLMAN, Wash. - Almost every calorie that we eat at...
Igniting a solar flare in the corona with lower-atmosphere kindling
Credit: NJIT Scientists from NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research are providing some of the first detailed views of the mechanisms...
Researchers shoot for success with simulations of laser pulse-material interactions
Credit: ORNL With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study...
Rarely studied gene USF3 plays role in predisposition to thyroid cancer
Credit: Cleveland Clinic March 27, 2017, Cleveland: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic and her team have discovered that...
Tiny bacterium provides window into whole ecosystems
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- William Blake may have seen a world in a grain of sand, but for scientists at MIT...
Fighting world hunger: Robotics aid in the study of corn and drought tolerance
Loading video... Credit: MU News Bureau Developing drought tolerant corn that makes efficient use of available water will be vital...
New method heats up ultrasonic approach to treating tumors
WASHINGTON D.C., March 28, 2017 -- High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is a breakthrough therapeutic technique used to treat tumors. The...
Night lights, big data
Credit: (Image courtesy of NASA) When the Earth is dark, human activity sparkles across the globe. As seen from space,...
Vitamin D, calcium supplementation among older women does not significantly reduce risk of cancer
Among healthy postmenopausal women, supplementation with vitamin D3 and calcium compared with placebo did not result in a significantly lower...
Findings support use of less invasive hysterectomy for early-stage endometrial cancer
Researchers found similar rates of disease-free survival and no difference in overall survival among women who received a laparoscopic or...
Female menstrual cycle in a dish
"It's the ultimate personalized medicine, a model of your body for testing drugs" Will help scientists understand diseases such as...
Prostate screening often occurs without discussion of benefits, risks
A new study finds that while a blood test that helps to screen for prostate cancer remains common, only 30...
Desktop scanners can be hijacked to perpetrate cyberattacks
BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 28, 2017 - A typical office scanner can be infiltrated and a company's network compromised using different light...
A seismic mapping milestone
Credit: David Pugmire, ORNL Because of Earth's layered composition, scientists have often compared the basic arrangement of its interior to...
Dust contributes valuable nutrients to Sierra Nevada forest ecosystems
Credit: Chelsea Carey, Point Blue Conservation Science Collecting dust isn't usually considered a good thing. But dust from as close...
Forests fight global warming in ways more important than previously understood
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Forests play a complex role in keeping the planet cool, one that goes far beyond the absorption...
MSU, Shedd Aquarium partnering to create healthier aquatic homes
Credit: Photo Credit: ©Shedd Aquarium/Brenna Hernandez Viruses are the most abundant living organisms on the planet, yet we know very...
Hair spacing keeps honeybees clean during pollination
Credit: Candler Hobbs, Georgia Tech With honeybee colony health wavering and researchers trying to find technological ways of pollinating plants...
Cornering endangered species
As certain species decline in number, the geographic areas they inhabit also shrink. Still, even with less space to occupy,...
