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Singing posters and talking shirts: UW engineers turn objects into FM stations
Credit: University of Washington Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band...
Fred Hutch announces 2017 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
SEATTLE -- Mar. 1, 2017 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub...
World’s oldest fossils unearthed
Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists,...
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole ‘burps’
Credit: The European Space Agency (ESA) Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the...
Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. - Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's...
USDA announces $1.8 million for research on next generation pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.8 million...
NIFA announces nearly $770,000 for canola research
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability...
Restoring predators and prey together speeds recovery
Credit: Candice Emmons, NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC Restoring predator and prey species together helps accelerate ecosystem recovery efforts compared to pursuing restoration...
BOLD prediction: Brain circuit that supports smoking cessation identified
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Quitting smoking is hard. Yet success is more likely with strong communication between parts...
Queen’s-led experiment makes substantial leap forward in quest for dark matter
KINGSTON/SUDBURY - New research, submitted for publication by the PICO Collaboration, has produced new direct-detection constraints on the existence of...
Artificial intelligence enters the nutraceutical industry
Credit: Ageless Cell Wednesday, March 1st Baltimore, MD - In March 2016 Insilico Medicine initiated a research collaboration with Life...
Study defines global burden of skin disease
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A study published today in JAMA Dermatology combines the prevalence of skin diseases around...
Media can register now for ESTRO 36 – Europe’s largest congress on radiation oncology
Registration has now opened for journalists for ESTRO 36 - Europe's largest congress on radiation oncology, organised by the European...
A new role for an old immune cell may lead to novel therapies for infection and cancer
A new study has identified a previously undescribed role for a type of unconventional T cell with the potential to...
FDG PET/CT found useful in certain lung cancer patients
Leesburg, VA, March 1, 2017-- FDG PET/CT is a valuable imaging tool for treatment assessment of patients with lung cancer,...
China physicist Wang Yifang awarded 2016 Pontecorvo Prize
Credit: Image by CAS The jury of the International Bruno Pontecorvo prize announced on February 27 that the Bruno Pontecorvo...
A new cosmic survey offers unprecedented view of galaxies
Credit: Princeton University/HSC Project The universe has come into sharper focus with the release this week of new images from...
Yale-led team puts dark matter on the map
Credit: Yale University New Haven, Conn. - A Yale-led team has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter...
Philadelphia research consortium launched to access research capabilities across region
PHILADELPHIA -- (March 1, 2017) -- The Wistar Institute, together with many regional academic institutions driving life sciences discoveries, has...
Even after treatment, brains of anorexia nervosa patients not fully recovered
AURORA, Colo. (March 1, 2017) - Even after weeks of treatment and considerable weight gain, the brains of adolescent patients...
