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The ebb and flow of brain ventricles
Expansion of ventricles in MS patients often recedesCredit: Millward et al., MDC It is not only the heart that has...
The burning question of Bonfire Night pollution
Credit: Michael Adams Bonfire Night celebrations contaminate our air with hugely elevated amounts of soot, scientists have found. Researchers from...
The biggest trees capture the most carbon: Large trees dominate carbon storage in forests
Large-diameter trees make up 3% of total stems, but account for 42% of total carbon storage in Pacific Northwest forest...
Prejudice, poverty, gender – illustrations show the reality of living with disease
Community-based research programme leads to innovative 'cartoons'Credit: Sightsavers Illustrations by a local artist in Nigeria are helping health workers and...
The first duckbill dinosaur fossil from Africa hints at how dinosaurs once crossed oceans
Credit: Credit: Raul Martin The first fossils of a duckbilled dinosaur have been discovered in Africa, suggesting dinosaurs crossed hundreds...
Nature-inspired solutions to sustainably increase crop yield
The 5-year 8M € project GAIN4CROPS aims to improve photosynthetic efficiency of the oil crop sunflower using nature-inspired solutions and...
Better health – for people and the planet – grows on trees
Tropical fruit trees can improve health, reduce hunger, boost incomes and fight climate change; so why don't we grow and...
SLAC, Stanford to host national service center for cryo-ET sample preparation
The center complements other NIH centers at SLAC and elsewhere that broaden access to this cutting-edge technology for biomedical researchCredit:...
Turning up the heat on molten salt valves
$2.5 million DOE grant to advance critical component for concentrating solar powerCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia...
Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers names Sandia Labs Organization of the Year
Sandia computer scientist also bestowed Professional Achievement AwardCredit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Sandia National Laboratories has been...
Near-atomic ‘maps’ reveal structure for maintaining pH balance in cells
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Wei Lü, Van Andel Institute GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Nov. 4, 2020) -- For the first time,...
Nature-inspired design–Mimicking moth eyes to produce transparent anti-reflective coatings
Scientists develop a simple and scalable strategy to produce resin films with anti-reflective nanostructures--inspired by eyes of mothsCredit: Ian Lindsay...
Researchers identify key marker to help speed development of CMV vaccines
The finding provides a surrogate for testing the effectiveness of vaccine candidatesCredit: Jennifer Jenks, Duke University School of Medicine DURHAM,...
Fighting Zika? Call in the T cells
Stopping emerging viruses could depend on getting T cells and antibodies to work togetherCredit: NIAID LA JOLLA--Where Aedes mosquitoes fly,...
DNA in seawater can reveal fish diversity in the deep ocean
eDNA metabarcoding provides comparable and new insights compared to those of conventional methodsCredit: David Cote, Fisheries and Oceans Canada A...
Data science pathway prepares radiology residents for machine learning
Credit: Radiological Society of North America OAK BROOK, Ill. - A recently developed data science pathway for fourth-year radiology residents...
INRS awards an honorary doctorate to biochemist Nahum Sonenberg
Credit: Owen Egan Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) is proud to announce that McGill University biochemist and professor...
Building a quantum network one node at a time
Credit: University of Rochester illustration / Michael Osadciw Researchers at the University of Rochester and Cornell University have taken an...
Physician advocates screening teen emergency room patients for sexually transmitted infections
University of Cincinnati researcher says it will help combat future health complicationsCredit: Photo by Colleen Kelley/University of Cincinnati. A University...
NASA missions help pinpoint the source of a unique x-ray, radio burst
Credit: Credits: Richard Shaw/UBC/CHIME Collaboration On April 28, a supermagnetized stellar remnant known as a magnetar blasted out a simultaneous...
