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New low-cost technique converts bulk alloys to oxide nanowires
Credit: Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech A simple technique for producing oxide nanowires directly from bulk materials could dramatically lower...
New TSRI method could turbocharge drug discovery, protein research
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute LA JOLLA, CA - January 19, 2017 - A team led by scientists at The...
Press registration now open for 2017 Experimental Biology meeting
BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 19, 2017 - Looking for the latest news on nutrition, the human body, early-stage biomedical advances or...
SF State astronomer searches for signs of life on Wolf 1061 exoplanet
Credit: Illustration credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has...
Brief interventions help online learners persist with coursework, Stanford research finds
(Stanford University) New research shows people in underdeveloped parts of the world are not as likely to complete massive open...
Ants use sun and memories to guide their backwards walk home
Credit: Ajay Narendra They are famed for their highly developed work ethic ... now a study shows ants' navigational skills...
Geosciences-inspired engineering
Credit: Swanson School of Engineering PITTSBURGH (January 19, 2017) ... The Mackenzie Dike Swarm, an ancient geological feature covering an...
Study: Technological progress alone won’t stem resource use
Are humans taking more resources from the Earth than the planet can safely produce? The answer lies partly in whether...
Creating atomic scale nanoribbons
Credit: Adrian Radocea, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Silicon crystals are the semiconductors most commonly used to make...
As cells age, the fat content within them shifts
Credit: Credit: University at Buffalo. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- As cells age and stop dividing, their fat content changes, along with...
Mayo researchers identify mechanism of oncogene action in lung cancer
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified a genetic promoter of cancer that drives a major form of...
Digital assay of circulating tumor cells may improve diagnosis, monitoring of liver cancer
Use of an advanced form of the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method to analyze circulating tumor cells (CTCs)...
Pancreatic tumors rely on signals from surrounding cells
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--Just as an invasive weed might need nutrient-rich soil and water to grow, many cancers rely...
IT network upgrades support LSUHealthNO research enterprise
New Orleans, LA - The Department of Information Technology at LSU Health New Orleans successfully competed for its first National...
NASA Goddard scientist wins 2017 GLBT Scientist Award
Credit: Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Matthew McGill of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has been...
Your ‘anonmyized’ web browsing history may not be anonymous
Credit: Frank Wojciechowski Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a...
Treated carbon pulls radioactive elements from water
Credit: Kazan Federal University Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract...
‘FishTaco’ sorts out who is doing what in your microbiome
A growing body of evidence indicates that the trillions of microbes that live on and inside our bodies affect our...
Seeking structure with metagenome sequences
Credit: Image of Great Boiling Spring by Brian Hedlund, UNLV. Protein structure and composite image by Sergey Ovchinnikov, UW For...
System links data scattered across files, for easy querying
The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any...
