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Astronomers release largest digital survey of the visible Universe
Credit: Credit: Danny Farrow, Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium and Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestial Physics The world's largest digital survey of...
An interview with 2016 Priestley medalist Mostafa El-Sayed (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2016 - It's difficult to sum up Mostafa El-Sayed's nearly 60-year career...
Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology spinout accelerates clinical trials
Credit: Vall d´Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) Mosaic Biomedicals SL today announced a merger with Northern Biologics Inc. that will...
Quirky summer monsoon behaviors affect rainfall in East Asia
In 2010, 28 regions in China suffered a five-month-long flood. This disaster resulted in over 4000 people dead or missing,...
‘Tiny earthquakes’ help scientists predict mountain rock falls
Credit: Technical University of Munich The risk of mountain rock falls in regions with sub-zero temperatures, such as the Swiss...
Clownfish adapt for population survival
Credit: © 2016 Till Rothig KAUST One fish species is able to adjust the gender ratio of its population, through...
Gut bacteria may hold key to treating autoimmune disease
Credit: He et al., 2017 Defects in the body's regulatory T cells (T reg cells) cause inflammation and autoimmune disease...
An ancient mechanism helps a cell to resist stress
Credit: Sergey Dmitriev Biologists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in collaboration with colleagues from the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular...
Girls with poorer motor skills more likely than boys to be obese
Young girls who exhibit a poor mastery of fundamental movement skills (FMS) are more likely to be obese than boys...
How bacteria survive antibiotic treatment
Multiresistant bacteria Scientists around the world are working hard to win the battle against multi-resistant bacteria. A new publication from...
To bloom or not to bloom: That is the question
Credit: IBS When spring is approaching, how do plants decide that it is time to flower? A team of plant...
Tortoise electrons trying to catch up with hare photons give graphene its conductivity
How electrons interact with other electrons at quantum scale in graphene affects how quickly they travel in the material, leading...
Experts panel created to identify emerging technologies of greatest help to Africa
Credit: Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University's Calestous Juma will co-chair a new High Level African Panel on Emerging Technologies, created...
New carbenoid species yields unexpected reactivity
Credit: © ICIQ / © Wiley-VCH To day, chemists synthesize cyclopropanes using pure E or Z alkenes as starting materials...
Many muons: Imaging the underground with help from the cosmos
Credit: PNNL Alain Bonneville, a geophysicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will present details on the muon detector and the...
Pacific Northwest researchers to play key role in new Manufacturing USA Institute
Credit: PNNL RICHLAND, Wash. - Getting more production output from a chemical operation or performing the same process more efficiently...
Huntsman Cancer Institute leads international colorectal study
SALT LAKE CITY - Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah will head an international study to find...
Sirt1 regulates proliferation and regeneration of glial progenitor cells after injury
Credit: Children's National Health System WASHINGTON - Developing brains in newborns have a sizable pool of a certain type of...
Newly identified pathway in mitochondria fuels tumor progression across cancer types
PHILADELPHIA --(Dec. 19, 2016)-- Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a novel protein pathway across several types of cancer...
Above and beyond megathrusts: Draining pore-fluids dampens tremors
Credit: Nature Communications In the Nankai subduction zone, Japan, non-volcanic deep tremors occur down-dip of the megathrust seismogenic zone, and...
