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Ineffective antibiotics form strong teams against deadly super bacteria
BUFFALO, N.Y. - In the fight against super bacteria, University at Buffalo scientists are relying on strength in numbers to...
Genetic risk factor for equine eye cancer identified
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the most common cancer found in equine eyes and the second most common tumor of...
Study: Many patients with early-stage breast cancer receive costly, inappropriate testing
Credit: Bo Jungmayer/Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE -- May 24, 2017 -- A study from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center...
Researchers find new way to control light with electric fields
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling light with electric fields. "Our method is similar...
eLearning Stakeholders and Researchers Summit 2017 is held in Moscow for the first time
National Research University Higher School of Economics, in cooperation with the global online learning platform Coursera, is holding eLearning Stakeholders...
MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food
Credit: Michael Indresano Photography "Don't play with your food" is a saying that MIT researchers are taking with a grain...
Ag/ZnO-Nanorods Schottky diodes based UV-PDs are fabricated and tested
Credit: NANO In the recent past ZnO has emerged as a promising alternative to Si and GaN in devices like...
Unveiling the quantum necklace
Credit: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University The quantum world is both elegant and mysterious. It is a...
Controlling 3-D behavior of biological cells using laser holographic techniques
Credit: KAIST A research team led by Professor YongKeun Park of the Physics Department at KAIST has developed an optical...
Regenerative medicine researcher’s startup companies give hope to patients
Credit: David Hungate/Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Sometimes it takes a researcher with a flair for entrepreneurship to translate a...
Summer rainfall in vulnerable African region can be predicted
Summer rainfall in one of the world's most drought-prone regions can now be predicted months or years in advance, climate...
High pressure key to lighter, stronger metal alloys, Stanford scientists find
High pressure could be the key to making advanced metal mixtures that are lighter, stronger and more heat-resistant than conventional...
Elsevier adds ClinicalKey to Research4Life access program for developing countries
Philadelphia, PA, May 25, 2017 - Elsevier, the information analytics company specializing in science and health, will add ClinicalKey to...
Development of compound that captures specific alkane gas molecule with its color change
Credit: Kanazawa University A ring-shaped molecule may possess a cavity because of its three-dimensional structure. This cavity can accommodate a...
Whales only recently evolved into giants when changing ice, oceans concentrated prey
Credit: Copyright Silverback Films/BBC. The blue whale, which uses baleen to filter its prey from ocean water and can reach...
Fighting forgery with paper fingerprints
Fingerprinting official documents could provide a cost-effective way to prevent forgery, new research shows. Scientists from Newcastle University, UK, have...
Nation’s beekeepers lost 33 percent of bees in 2016-17
Credit: University of Maryland/Bee Informed Partnership Beekeepers across the United States lost 33 percent of their honey bee colonies during...
Zika infections could be factor in more pregnancies
Credit: Jeff Miller/University of Wisconsin-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Zika virus infection passes efficiently from a pregnant monkey to its fetus,...
ATS 2017 Wrap-up: Rapid sepsis treatment, predicting mortality after the ICU and more
(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) Thousands of critical care and pulmonology specialists from across the world gathered this week...
Modeling invasive activity: Zebra mussels’ infiltration of North American rivers
The invasion of nonnative species has widespread and detrimental effects on both local and global ecosystems. These intruders often spread...
