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Policymakers ‘flying blind’ into the future of work
PITTSBURGH--Will a robot take away my job? Many people ask that question, yet policymakers don't have the kind of information...
With magnetic map, young eels catch a ‘free ride’ to Europe
Loading video... Credit: Naisbett-Jones Each year, young European eels make their way from breeding grounds in the Sargasso Sea to...
Brain tissue from a petri dish
Credit: © ScienceRelations/University of Luxembourg The most complex organ in humans is the brain. Due to its complexity and, of...
Cancer occurrence among African-born blacks differs substantially from US-born blacks
The cancer profile of African-born blacks differs from that of United States-born blacks and varies by region of birth, according...
A battery prototype powered by atmospheric nitrogen
Credit: Zhang et. al. As the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, nitrogen has been an attractive option as a...
Green IT: New switching process in non-volatile spintronics devices
(Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie) Physicists achieved a robust and reliable magnetization switching process by domain wall displacement without...
New material could save time and money in medical imaging and environmental remediation
Credit: Samuel Dunning and David Steadman/University of Texas at Austin Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed...
Nearly two billion people depend on imported food
Credit: Aalto University Researchers show empirically: when population pressure increases, food is imported The Earth's capacity to feed its growing...
New study emphasizes the relative scarcity of lake water
Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using a mathematical analysis, researcher David Seekell,...
Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch Food Quality and Safety
Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access...
Scientists discover master switch to turn on silent biosynthetic gene clusters
Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of...
First large-scale survey of Chagas disease in the United States confirms that the ‘silent killer’ is a major public health challenge for the country
Credit: Fabio Nascimento-DNDi A study of almost 5,000 Latin American-born residents of Los Angeles County found that 1.24% tested positive...
UVA finds way to view genes inside living cells
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System Researchers have developed a technique to watch the movement of genes inside living...
Measuring the shadow of the black hole
The international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imaging for the first time the black-hole candidate at the center...
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat
Credit: Xinyu Liu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a...
Nanotubes that build themselves
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition....
EU funds research on biofuels and infectious diseases
Environmentally friendly fuels Volker Müller is one of the leading microbiologists worldwide in the field of microbial metabolism of microbes...
Defects in epithelial tissue organization — A question of life or death
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have discovered the...
Common drugs, uncommon risks? Higher rate of serious problems after short-term steroid use
ANN ARBOR, MI - Millions of times a year, Americans get prescriptions for a week's worth of steroid pills, hoping...
Method improves semiconductor fiber optics, paves way for developing devices
Credit: Penn State A new method to improve semiconductor fiber optics may lead to a material structure that might one...
