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A study analyzes the impact of targeted Facebook advertising on the elections
Credit: UC3M Republican Donald Trump's team spent 44 million dollars on Facebook, with 175,000 different adverts during the 2016 election...
As climate and land-use change accelerate, so must efforts to preserve California’s plants
Credit: Ron Horii As the IPCC warns that we have only 12 years to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly...
Seeing is believing: Monitoring real time changes during cell division
Credit: Lancaster University Scientist have cast new light on the behaviour of tiny hair-like structures called cilia found on almost...
Where you go tells who you are — and vice versa
Credit: Zhenyu Shou, Zhaobin Mo/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--November 19, 2018--Estimating travel demand in a city is a critical tool...
New drug discovery could halt spread of brain cancer
Credit: Virginia Tech The tissues in our bodies largely are made of fluid. It moves around cells and is essential...
NRL demonstrates new non-mechanical laser steering technology
Credit: (Jason Myers/U.S. Naval Research Laboratory) WASHINGTON -- Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new...
New report outlines cancer screening’s future potential
Cancer screening has contributed substantially to reduced incidence, morbidity, and mortality, but issues like access and quality care and have...
Researcher gets $485,263 grant to study how to control materials moving through tiny spaces
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Dr. Gangli Wang, professor of chemistry at Georgia State University, has received a three-year, $485,263 federal...
Getting things under control: New mouse model aids study of immunomodulation
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan-Because mice do not respond to immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs), preclinical therapeutic and safety studies of the...
New blood test detects early stage ovarian cancer
Research on a bacterial toxin first discovered in Adelaide has led to the development a new blood test for the...
Study: In-person, but not online, social contact may protect against psychiatric disorders
Credit: Michael Moody In-person social contact seems to offer some protection against depression and PTSD symptoms, but the same is...
Less pollution can add a year to the lives of Copenhageners in 2040
Copenhagen has been struggling with air pollution for many years now. Pollution from lorries, vans, busses and cars each year...
Artificially intelligent food solutions reduce the waste of resources
Credit: Daniel Schultz Madsen Klavs Martin Sorensen is an associate professor in the Department of Food Science at the University...
A major step toward non-viral ocular gene therapy using laser and nanotechnology
(Polytechnique Montréal) Gold nanoparticles, which act like 'nanolenses,' concentrate the energy produced by the extremely short pulse of a femtosecond...
Research focuses on a new frontier in circadian rhythms
Credit: Rensselaer TROY, N.Y. -- A new frontier in the science of circadian rhythms - whose disruption is linked to...
Scientists trained a computer to classify breast cancer tumors
Using technology similar to the type that powers facial and speech recognition on a smartphone, researchers at the University of...
Current climate models underestimate warming by black carbon aerosol
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Soot belches out of diesel engines, rises from wood- and dung-burning cookstoves and shoots...
Let’s draw!: New deep learning technique for realistic caricature art
Credit: Image courtesy of Kaidi Cao Caricature portrait drawing is a distinct art form where artists sketch a person's face...
Powerful new map depicts environmental degradation across Earth
Credit: Tomasz Stepinski/UC A powerful new map by the University of Cincinnati illustrates one motivating force behind migrant caravans leaving...
Research offers hope for simpler cancer diagnosis and treatment
Credit: Jaren Wilkey/BYU Photo Monitoring cancer can often be an intrusive and exhausting process for patients. But with Brigham Young...
