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Songs that make robots cry
Credit: Osaka University Music, more than any art, is a beautiful mix of science and emotion. It follows a set...
Innovate Indiana Fund invests in early-stage payment-fraud analytics company
INDIANAPOLIS -- A high-tech company that detects payment-card fraud using machine learning and data analytics will be able to launch...
NASA examines the soaking from ex-tropical Cyclone Enawo exiting Madagascar
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce NASA's Aqua satellite observed Ex-Tropical Cyclone Enawo leaving Madagascar, while rainfall data from...
University of South Carolina discovery of widespread platinum may help solve Clovis people mystery
Credit: South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina No one knows for certain why the Clovis...
Shale gas production: Views from the energy roller coaster
Boulder, Colorado, USA - Geoscientists from the Northeastern and North-Central U.S. and beyond will convene in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 19-21...
The researchers discovered an unexpected link between cancer and autism
Credit: Turku Centre for Biotechnology The researchers from Turku Centre for Biotechnology discovered an unexpected link between cancer and autism...
New England Journal of Medicine publishes long-term results of Gleevec®
(Oregon Health & Science University) Today the New England Journal of Medicine published results from a nearly 11-year follow-up study,...
Hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes increase breast cancer risk
In her recent doctoral dissertation, researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki and Finnish Cancer Registry evaluates the contribution...
Innovative technique greatly increases sensitivity of DNA sequencing
Toronto (March 9, 2017) - OICR researchers, together with international collaborators, have invented a technique to avoid a major problem...
Canada continues to punch above its weight in the field of regenerative medicine
Credit: Council of Canadian Academies A new workshop report, Building on Canada's Strengths in Regenerative Medicine, released today by the...
New material helps record data with light
Credit: ITMO University Russian physicists with their colleagues from Europe through changing the light parameters, learned to generate quasiparticles -...
Rabbits’ detached retina ‘glued’ with new hydrogel
Credit: 2017 Takamasa Sakai. A newly developed elastic gel administered in liquid form and shown to turn jellylike within minutes...
‘Blurred times’ in a quantum world
Credit: Copyright: Juan Carlos Palomino, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna In everyday life we are used to the idea...
New technologies for astronomical research
The "Novel Astronomical Instrumentation through Photonic Reformatting" (NAIR) project is being funded by the DFG within the "New Instrumentation for...
Scientists effectively disrupt communication between parasites that spread disease
Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, Dean of Bar-Ilan's Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and member of the Bar-Ilan Institute...
Surprise: Transport proteins evolved long before their compounds emerged
As in an arms race plants constantly develop new toxic compounds to protect themselves against herbivores and diseases - and...
Stem cell reprogramming factor controls change in cellular energy generation
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - A little over 10 years ago, the first reprogramming of adult cells into...
Researchers identify a new way to promote tissue regeneration
Credit: Houston Methodist Houston Methodist researchers have identified an immune pathway that promotes the formation of a cell that can...
Personalized medicine, proton therapy, more advances in lung cancer at upcoming symposium
SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2017 -- The press program for next week's 2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium features research advances...
Cedars-Sinai neuroscientists pinpoint key gene controlling tumor growth in brain cancers
LOS ANGELES (March 9, 2017) - Cedars-Sinai investigators have identified a stem cell-regulating gene that affects tumor growth in patients...
