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$1 million award lets UVA open new portal to submicroscopic world
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System A scientist at the University of Virginia School of Medicine has received a...
Grant funds opioid addiction treatment in two county jails
UMass Amherst researcher helps oversee innovative program in Western MassachusettsCredit: UMass Amherst In what could serve as a model for...
How to keep stink bugs out this winter
Credit: Benjamin Chambers Every winter stink bugs infiltrate homes across the United States and two new studies published in the...
Planting small seeds simply: The allure of the slide hammer seeder
Easy-to-make planter helps in planting very small seedsCredit: Eric Brennan SALINAS, CALIFORNIA--Planting small seeds simply: The allure of the slide...
WVU researcher explores what tumor cells and a healthy retina have in common
Credit: Stock photo MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--How is a healthy retina cell like a tumor cell? It hijacks an energy-producing chemical reaction...
New in the Hastings Center Report, January-February 2019
Credit: Courtesy of the artist, www.johnstuartstudio.com Social Media, E-Health, and Medical Ethics Mélanie Terrasse, Moti Gorin, and Dominic Sisti Given...
‘Goldilocks’ thinking to cut cost of fuel cells in electric vehicles
Credit: Johns Hopkins University image/Lei Wang WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The 2019 Toyota Mirai electric vehicle touts zero emissions, thanks...
Study looks at seasonal and geographic trends in syphilis
Much of the public health impact of syphilis revolves around its impact on fetuses and neonates through the mother-to-child transmission...
NASA infrared image shows powerful center of Typhoon Wutip
Credit: NASA/NRL NASA's Aqua satellite provided a look at the temperatures in Tropical Cyclone Wutip as it threatens Chuuk and...
JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules
Credit: Steven Burrows/JILA JILA researchers have made a long-lived, record-cold gas of molecules that follow the wave patterns of quantum...
Leadership in biomedical engineering
UD's Dawn Elliott honored by Orthopaedic Research SocietyCredit: Photo by Evan Krape Some professors shine most brightly in the lab....
Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons
System that generates coherent single particles of light could help pave the way for quantum information processors or communications CAMBRIDGE,...
Signals on the scales
How are the images cast on the retina reassembled in the brain? Researchers in Munich and Tuebingen find that processing...
NJIT’s Sagnik Basuray is named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors
Credit: NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Sagnik Basuray, an assistant professor of chemical engineering who develops novel sensors,...
UTA biology researcher looks for new ways to eliminate parasitic disease
Eradication goalCredit: UT Arlington A biologist at The University of Texas at Arlington is using a new grant to look...
New paper provides design principles for disease-sensing nanomaterials
The detailed findings could lead to more precise, effective methods of treating and diagnosing a variety of diseases, including cancersCredit:...
Recent drought may provide a glimpse of the future for birds in the Sierra Nevada
Many birds respond positively to the warmer climate conditions associated with droughtCredit: Brent Campos/Point Blue How wildlife respond to climate...
Phantom limb sensation explained
New study reveals functional changes among sensitive and motor brain areas after limb amputation, shedding light on the mechanisms behind...
Scientists discover new type of immune cells that are essential for forming heart valves
UCLA study sheds new light on critical role of heart-derived macrophagesCredit: Developmental Cell/UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center UCLA researchers...
Current tools have low accuracy for predicting delayed ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage
Study among the first to appear in Critical Care Explorations, the Society of Critical Care Medicine's new open-access journal February...
