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El Niño, Pacific Decadal Oscillation implicated in domoic acid shellfish toxicity
(Oregon State University) Researchers today reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a strong correlation between toxic levels...
Warmer West Coast ocean conditions linked to increased risk of toxic shellfish
Credit: NOAA Hazardous levels of domoic acid, a natural toxin that accumulates in shellfish, have been linked to warmer ocean...
Speeding up 19th century oil paintings
The fluid and loose brushwork used by J.W.M. Turner and other innovative 19th century artists to capture the momentary effects...
Lars Bildsten wins 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Credit: Jakub Ostrowski WASHINGTON, D.C., January 9, 2017 -- The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the American Astronomical Society...
President Obama believes US clean energy trend ‘irreversible’
In this Policy Forum, President Obama, the 44th and current President of the United States, conveys his belief that "...trends...
Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb
Even before they are born, premature babies may display alterations in the circuitry of their developing brains, according to a...
Massive genetic study of humpback whales to inform conservation assessments
Credit: Darryl MacDonald New York (January 9, 2017) - Scientists have published one of the largest genetic studies ever conducted...
New findings detail structure of immature Zika virus
Credit: (Purdue University image courtesy of Kuhn and Rossmann research groups) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Researchers at Purdue University have...
Fear of diagnostic low-dose radiation exposure is overstated, experts assert
Reston, Va. -- In an article published in the January 2017 issue of "The Journal of Nuclear Medicine," researchers assert...
NASA spots short-lived Tropical Depression 01W
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA In just 24 hours after Tropical Depression 01W formed in the Philippine Sea it was already falling...
Reducing drug dosage, and hearing loss in TB patients without reducing efficacy
Washington, DC - January 9, 2017 - Aminoglycosides, recommended by the World Health Organization to treat multidrug resistant tuberculosis, cause...
Experiments in mice may help boost newly FDA-approved therapy for spinal muscular atrophy
Credit: Sumner lab Johns Hopkins researchers along with academic and drug industry investigators say they have identified a new biological...
Newly discovered phytoplankton groups appear to favor warmer oceans
Credit: Adam Monier, University of Exeter (Toronto - Jan. 9, 2017) An international research team has discovered two phytoplankton groups...
Secret new weapon of insect-transmitted viruses exposed
Credit: UCANR RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Findings by a team of scientists, including two from the University of California, Riverside,...
Report from international workshop on reducing animal use for acute toxicity testing published
Washington -- A report outlining the findings of the international expert workshop "Alternative Approaches for Identifying Acute Systemic Toxicity: Moving...
Place matters in late diagnosis of colorectal cancer, study finds
In addition to a person's race or ethnicity, where they live can matter in terms of whether they are diagnosed...
Crohn’s disease risk and prognosis determined by different genes, study finds
Researchers have identified a series of genetic variants that affect the severity of Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease -...
NASA sees storms affecting the western US
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/NOAA GOES Project Extreme rain events have been affecting California and snow has blanketed the Pacific...
VLT to search for planets in Alpha Centauri system
Credit: Y. Beletsky (LCO)/ESO ESO has signed an agreement with the Breakthrough Initiatives to adapt the Very Large Telescope instrumentation...
Boston College and MIT chemists report E-selective macrocyclic ring-closing metathesis
Chestnut Hill, Mass. (Jan. 9, 2017) - Using ring-closing metathesis to exploit the properties of carbon-carbon double bonds, researchers from...
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