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Hubble spotlights a celestial sidekick
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), a...
From mice, clues to microbiome’s influence on metabolic disease
Credit: Bryce Richter/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- The community of microorganisms that resides in the gut, known as the microbiome, has...
Designing new materials from ‘small’ data
Credit: James Rondinelli Finding new functional materials is always tricky. But searching for very specific properties among a relatively small...
Developing a catalytic conveyor belt
Credit: Oleg E. Shklyaev and Henry Shum PITTSBURGH (February 17, 2017) ... Capitalizing on previous studies in self-powered chemo-mechanical movement,...
Measuring pain: SLU scientist tests possible biomarkers
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- With new funding from The Mayday Fund, a Saint Louis University researcher will...
DRI unmanned cloud-seeding realizes beyond visual line of sight
Loading video... Credit: DRI/Drone America Reno, Nev. (Feb. 16, 2017) - Nevada's unmanned cloud-seeding research team has realized another fundamental...
When ultrafast laser pulse meets magnetic materials
Credit: ©Science China Press Ultrafast non-equilibrium magnetization in correlated spin systems is extensively studied in recent years. At both fundamental...
In-mouse catalysis
Address and deliver: A gold catalyst can be delivered to a target organ in a higher organism where it performs...
Tumor suppressor promotes some acute myeloid leukemias, study reveals
Credit: Behrens et al., 2017 Researchers in Germany have discovered that a tumor suppressor protein thought to prevent acute myeloid...
Quality of life with those with advanced cancer improved through walking
Walking for just 30 minutes three times per week could improve the quality of life for those with advanced cancer,...
Role of rogue protein PAK4 confirmed in pancreatic cancer cells
A new study that confirms the role of a protein called PAK4 in the movement and growth of pancreatic cancer...
Molecular phenomenon discovered by advanced NMR facility
Credit: University of Warwick Cutting edge tech shows molecule self-assembling into different forms passing from solution state to solid state...
Researchers replicate nature’s ability to reflect light to develop innovative ma
Researchers from the University of Surrey have developed an innovative new technique to mimic one of nature's greatest achievements --...
Breakthrough with a chain of gold atoms
Credit: Created by Enrique Sahagun Heat transport is of similar fundamental importance and its control is for instance necessary to...
Big improvement to brain-computer interface
Credit: Sam Kassegne When people suffer spinal cord injuries and lose mobility in their limbs, it's a neural signal processing...
AVN-322 is a safe orally bio-available potent and highly selective antagonist
5-hydroxytryptamine subtype 6 receptor (5-HT6R) has been extensively considered as a promising therapeutic target for the treatment of neuropathological disorders....
Future trends for top materials by Mario J F Calvete
In the last four decades materials science has evolved and developed into a very diverse range of highly specialised family...
Where are the whales off the West Coast?
WHAT: Webinar on WhaleWatch tool for estimating blue whale locations and densities WHEN: Wednesday, Feb. 22, 10 a.m. to 11...
Particles from outer space are wreaking low-grade havoc on personal electronics
Credit: Bharat Bhuva, Vanderbilt University You may not realize it but alien subatomic particles raining down from outer space are...
How dads bond with toddlers: Brain scans link oxytocin to paternal nurturing
Fathers given boosts of the hormone oxytocin show increased activity in brain regions associated with reward and empathy when viewing...
