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Traffic light in the brain
Credit: Photo: Michael Veit Whether the brain responds to an external stimulus or not depends significantly on the balance between...
Price of a pill – professor’s new book examines affordable medicines
Credit: University of Huddersfield COUNTRIES both rich and poor are confronted with the challenge of making sure that medicines --...
Los Alamos research on cancer’s origins key part of huge grant
Credit: Cancer Research UK LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Feb. 9, 2017 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Ludmil Alexandrov has been...
Brazilian peppertree packs power to knock out antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Credit: Emory University The red berries of the Brazilian peppertree -- a weedy, invasive species common in Florida -- contain...
Falsifying Galileo satellite signals will become more difficult
Credit: European Union The European Union activated its Galileo satellite navigation system in December 2016. The EU is dedicated to...
One step closer to personalized antibiotic treatment
Taking antibiotics to fight an infection won't necessarily solve your problems. Often, natural occurring bacteria in the gut harbor several...
Cancer research UK announces grand challenge teams to answer biggest questions in cancer
Credit: Cancer Research UK Cancer Research UK today (Friday) announces that four international teams are the first recipients of its...
Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release
Credit: Photograph was taken by the Deep Discoverer remotely operated vehicle in April 2014 and is courtesy of the National...
RIT researcher gets NIST award to develop security measures for deeply-embedded systems
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, a faculty member at Rochester Institute of Technology, recently received a grant to design security measures for...
New method of genetic engineering indispensable tool in biotechnological applications
Credit: Behnam Enghiad and Huimin Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign Research by Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Huimin...
New, long-lasting flow battery could run for more than a decade with minimum upkeep
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new flow battery...
Matters of the heart: YorkU researchers create 3-D beating heart
Loading video... Credit: York University TORONTO, February 9, 2017 - Matters of the heart can be complicated, but York University...
How best to treat infections and tumors: Containment versus aggressive treatment
Credit: NIAID (MRSA), Dr. Cecil Fox (Photographer), via Wikimedia Commons (cancer cells). In cases where drug resistance can lead to...
How best to treat infections and tumors
Credit: NIAID (MRSA), Dr. Cecil Fox (Photographer), via Wikimedia Commons (cancer cells). In cases where drug resistance can lead to...
Dual-function nanorod LEDs could make multifunctional displays
Credit: Image courtesy of Moonsub Shim, University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cellphones and other devices could soon be controlled...
Neural network learns to select potential anticancer drugs
Credit: MIPT Press Office Scientists from Mail.Ru Group, Insilico Medicine and MIPT have for the first time applied a generative...
Scientists estimate solar nebula’s lifetime
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own...
Chemicals hitch a ride onto new protein for better compounds
Credit: Shixian Lin/Berkeley Lab Chemists have developed a powerful new method of selectively linking chemicals to proteins, a major advance...
New engineered material can cool roofs, structures with zero energy consumption
A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial -- an engineered material with extraordinary...
Methane levels have increased in Marcellus Shale region despite dip in well installation
Despite a slow down in the number of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale region of Northeast Pennsylvania,...
