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Five years before brain cancer diagnosis, changes detectable in blood
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Changes in immune activity appear to signal a growing brain tumor five years before symptoms arise, new...
‘Instantly rechargeable’ battery could change the future of electric and hybrid automobiles
A technology developed by Purdue researchers could provide an "instantly rechargeable" method that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly for...
How the Nazis invented nerve agents like sarin (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, June 1, 2017 -- Nerve agents are arguably the most brutal chemical weapons. These...
What’s powering your devices?
Credit: StockSnap/Jason Blackeye PULLMAN, Wash. - Do Americans want to use more renewable energy? Yes they do - regardless of...
Why antibiotics fail
When a patient is prescribed the wrong antibiotic to treat a bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the physician who is...
Prevention to precision, SWOG presents a raft of research at ASCO 2017
PORTLAND, OR - Researchers from SWOG, a cancer clinical trials group funded by the National Cancer Institute, will participate in...
Get to know the omentum: The apron of fat that protects your abdomen
The quirkiest organ in the human body may be a large sheet of fat that stretches over the intestines, liver,...
Why was a teenager with bone cancer buried on Witch Hill in Panama?
(Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Likely the first bone tumor from an ancient skeleton in Central America is reported by Smithsonian...
Rice U. scientists slash computations for deep learning
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Rice University computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data lookup to slash...
RIT scientists measure black hole’s tilt and spin for clues to how massive stars die
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers continue to make significant contributions to gravitational wave astronomy, with the third detection of gravitational...
Flying metal detectors? Navy tests new unmanned mine-detection system
Credit: (U.S. Navy photo by John F. Williams/Released) ARLINGTON, Va.--During a recent technology demonstration at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton,...
Muon magnet’s moment has arrived
Credit: Reidar Hahn/Fermilab What do you get when you revive a beautiful 20-year-old physics machine, carefully transport it 3,200 miles...
Common class of chemicals cause cancer by breaking down DNA repair mechanisms
A common class of chemicals found everywhere from car exhausts, smoke, building materials and furniture to cosmetics and shampoos could...
A protein that stem cells require could be a target in killing breast cancer cells
Credit: Dos Santos Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - For years, cancer experts have realized that cancerous cells behave...
Combined optical and molecular imaging could guide breast-conserving surgery
Credit: A. D. Purushotham, MD, King's College London, UK RESTON, Va. - Breast-conserving surgery (BCS) is the primary treatment for...
Deep brain stimulation without implants
Credit: Nir Grossman, Ph.D., Suhasa B. Kodandaramaiah, Ph.D., and Andrii Rudenko, Ph.D. MIT researchers have developed a method that excites...
A noninvasive method for deep brain stimulation
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Delivering an electrical current to a part of the brain involved in movement control has proven successful...
Researchers uncover clues about how HIV virus mutates
SEATTLE - June 1, 2017 - A new study published in Cell Host & Microbe led by researchers at Fred...
NASA sees Tropical Depression 2E moving over Mexican state of Oaxaca
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed Tropical Depression 2E in infrared, visible and microwave...
LIGO detects gravitational waves for third time
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating...
