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Taking antidepressants during pregnancy not associated with neonatal problems at 2-4 weeks
CHICAGO --- Babies exposed to an antidepressant or a mood disorder during fetal life did not have any more signs...
Physicists create ‘molecular black hole’ using ultra-intense X-ray pulses
Credit: DESY/Science Communication Lab MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Heavy atoms absorbing X-rays are sucking the electrons from their molecular neighbors like...
Newly identified microbial process could reduce toxic methylmercury levels
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy OAK RIDGE, Tenn. May 31, 2017 - A team led by the Department...
Radiation therapy, macrophages improve efficacy of nanoparticle-delivered cancer therapy
Credit: Miles Miller, PhD, and Ralph Weissleder, MD, PhD; Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital A Massachusetts General Hospital...
New tech promises easier cervical cancer screening
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University researchers have developed a handheld device for cervical cancer screening that promises...
How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences
UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something,...
Mining for answers on abandoned mines
Credit: Andrew Harley Soil scientist Jim Ippolito believes in local solutions to local problems. The problem he's working on is...
Outnumbered and on others’ turf, misfits sometimes thrive
Credit: Daniel Bolnick/U. of Texas at Austin It's hard being a misfit: say, a Yankees fan in a room full...
Restored ocean will alleviate poverty, provide jobs, and improve health, finds report
Credit: Lindsay Lafreniere A healthy ocean will benefit global sustainable development in a number of ways, finds a new report...
We’re on the brink of mass extinction — but there’s still time to pull back
Credit: Susan Barrott, UMinn Imagine being a scuba diver and leaving your oxygen tank behind you on a dive. Or...
Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment
Credit: Stephanie Precourt/UW-Madison MADISON, Wis. -- Wastewater treatment plants have a PR problem: People don't like to think about what...
NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression Two-E in Eastern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project The second tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico....
Russian scientists improved an X-ray fluorescence analysis algorithm
Scientists from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University have performed computations and derived new equations, allowing...
Cold conversion of food waste into renewable energy and fertilizer
Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the...
NASA sees Cyclone Mora still packing punch after landfall
Loading video... Credit: Credit: NASA JAXA, Hal Pierce Satellite data showed heavy rain and high cloud tops in Tropical Cyclone...
Human activity has polluted European air for 2,000 years, study finds
WASHINGTON, DC -- A new study combining European ice core data and historical records of the infamous Black Death pandemic...
Hitoshi Murayama named one of the 100 influencers in the world
Credit: Kavli IPMU Hitoshi Murayama has been named a Genius Contributor for a project celebrating the 100th anniversary of the...
Looking at complex light wave forms
Credit: Graphics: Giuseppe Sansone For the first time an international research team under the direction of Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Sansone...
Moffitt improves radiation therapy for head and neck patients
TAMPA, Fla. (May 31, 2017) - Radiation therapy is one of the most common treatments used to fight cancer, with...
Giant ringed planet likely cause of mysterious eclipses
Credit: University of Warwick A giant gas planet - up to 50x the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring...
