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Annual Reviews announces first review journal in the field of Biomedical Data Science
Credit: Annual Reviews Annual Reviews, the nonprofit publisher of scholarly review journals, today announced the publication of the inaugural volume...
Radar better than weather balloon for measuring boundary layer
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Improving forecasting for a host of severe weather events may be possible thanks to...
Research on pine sawflies sheds light on the evolution of cooperation
Credit: Carita Lindstedt Pine sawflies terrify forest owners, but they help researchers understand the evolution of cooperation. A study conducted...
Genomic study ties insect evolution to the ability to detect airborne odors
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study reveals that all insects use specialized odorant receptors...
Measuring climate impact of forests management — a groundbreaking approach
A JRC-led group of forestry research experts has developed a rigorous new fact-based carbon accounting system that reflects how forest...
UB researchers discover a disease threatening the most plentiful starfish in Antarctica
Credit: UB-IRBio A study led by experts from the University of Barcelona's Faculty of Biology and Institute for Research on...
New study shows some corals might adapt to climate changes
Credit: Evan K. D'Alessandro, Ph.D. UM Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science MIAMI--New research shows that not all corals...
Wearable devices: Useful medical insights or just more data?
Wearable devices are increasingly bought to track and measure health and sports performance: from the number of steps walked each...
Thin films can enhance vorticity in the ocean
Credit: Vladimir Parfenyev Scientists from the Higher School of Economics and the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of Russian Academy...
Mushrooms of the far east hold promise for the anti-cancer therapy
Credit: Eugenia M. Bulakh Mushrooms from the Far East area contain the natural chemical compounds, which could be used for...
New light shed on the people who built Stonehenge
Despite over a century of intense study, we still know very little about the people buried at Stonehenge or how...
The case for greater focus on mosquitoes, ticks in epidemiology
Credit: Annals of the Entomological Society of America Annapolis, MD; July 31, 2018--The textbook approach to managing disease outbreaks focuses...
Stem cell research for cystic fibrosis leaps forward
Credit: Dr Nigel Farrow, University of Adelaide The fight against cystic fibrosis (CF) has taken a major step forward, with...
Differences in immune responses create a genetic conflict between sexes
A unique study from Lund University in Sweden has discovered for the first time that there is a genetic sexual...
Heatwave and climate change having negative impact on our soil say experts
The recent heatwave and drought could be having a deeper, more negative effect on soil than we first realised say...
A breakthrough for understanding GBM: Origin cells for deadly brain tumors identified
Credit: KAIST A new study by KAIST researchers identified where the mutation causing glioblastoma starts. According to the study, neural...
Clothing, furniture also to blame for ocean and freshwater pollution
Think summer holidays and you'll likely call up images of a beautiful beach or a glittering blue lake. But more...
Key piece identified for slowing a colorectal cancer subtype
Inhibiting the Jagged 1 protein in mice prevents the proliferation and growth of colon and rectal tumours. What is more,...
New study shows smoking can affect breastfeeding habits
Credit: UBC Okanagan Researchers have determined that new mothers exposed to cigarette smoke in their homes, stop breastfeeding sooner than...
Routine screening of relatives of aortic disease patients could save lives
Routine screening and genetic testing of the relatives of patients suffering from aortic diseases could save lives, new research has...
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