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Hubble’s bright shining lizard star
Credit: NASA/ Hubble ESA In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a...
Hybrid heterostructures with programmable potentials
Credit: P. Samori/Strasbourg Stacking thin layers of graphene and related materials (GRMs) leads to heterostructure devices with a variety of...
Antibiotics counteract the beneficial effect of whole grain
According to recommendations from the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, adult Danes should consume at least 75 g whole meal...
Further knowledge required about the differences between milk proteins
New knowledge on milk composition and quality is of essential importance to consumers as well as the industry. There are...
Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY -- The ability to pattern materials at ever-smaller sizes -- using electron-beam lithography (EBL),...
Two papers challenge exclusion of acupuncture in government guidelines
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017-- Even as news in the United States recently...
The world’s fastest film camera: When light practically stands still
Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a...
The swollen colon — cause of chronic inflammation discovered
Credit: Mainz University Medical Center Researchers at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Research...
AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of...
Harvard & UT researchers propose systems connection in acupuncture & 21st century medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017 - Harvard University's renown fascia researcher Helene Langevin,...
$2.4 million grant funds new new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
A new $2.4-million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established...
WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction established at Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) - Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC ("WorldQuant") and Igor...
A new study revises the development and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain
Credit: © Universidad de Murcia A study recently published in PLOS Biology provides information that substantially changes the prevailing idea...
JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting being held May 20-25 in Chiba, Japan
WASHINGTON, DC - Discover the latest in Earth and space science research at the JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017 taking place...
Thin layers of water hold promise for the energy storage of the future
Credit: Veronica Augustyn and James LeBeau Researchers at North Carolina State University have found that a material which incorporates atomically...
China builds world’s largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library
After five years of hard work, China has completed the world's largest kinase-based whole-cell screening library for high-throughput drug assay....
New appetite control mechanism found in brain
Credit: Kazuyoshi Ukena A newly discovered molecule increases appetite during fasting -- and decreases it during gorging. The neuron-exciting protein,...
ICCP director Axel Timmermann receives Milutin Milankovic Medal
Credit: ICCP Pusan National University's Distinguished Professor Axel Timmermann and Director of the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP), has...
Mapping the edge of reality
Australian and German researchers have collaborated to develop a genetic algorithm to confirm the rejection of classical notions of causality....
New Singapore research center for big data analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Loading video... Credit: NTU Singapore Those without knowledge of computer programming could soon design their own games and applications using...