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The Renewable Thermal Alliance (RTA), a new project spearheaded by Yale University, is coordinating activities to harmonize and share best...

Engineers investigate a simple, no-bake recipe to make bricks from Martian soil

Credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego Explorers planning to settle on Mars might be able to turn the planet's...

UBC instructor uses math to investigate possibility of time travel

Credit: UBC Okanagan After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a...

Cleveland Clinic discovers opportunities to overcome cancer treatment resistance

THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2017, CLEVELAND, OH: A collaborative Cleveland Clinic, University of Oxford and Moffitt Cancer Center team of researchers...

Latest advances in artificial intelligence for drug discovery to be presented at the NVIDIA GTC

Credit: Insilico Medicine Thursday, April 27, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a big data analytics company specializing in applying...

Discovery in northern lakes may be key to understanding early life on Earth

A team of researchers has discovered that many Canadian lakes can provide new insights into ancient oceans, and their findings...

Ocean warming to cancel increased CO2-driven productivity

University of Adelaide researchers have constructed a marine food web to show how climate change could affect our future fish...

Amazentis announces successful phase 1A/1B study results for urolithin A in healthy elderly subjects

Lausanne, Switzerland, April 27, 2017 -- Amazentis SA, an innovative life sciences company pioneering scientific breakthroughs in nutrition to manage...

Control of molecular motion by metal-plated 3-D printed plastic pieces

Credit: A.Osterwalder/EPFL Many measurement techniques, such as spectroscopy, benefit from the ability to split a single beam of light into...

System can 3-D print an entire building

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The list of materials that can be produced by 3-D printing has grown to include not just...

Researchers identify genes that help trout find their way home

DURHAM, N.C. -- In the spring when water temperatures start to rise, rainbow trout that have spent several years at...

Want to better comply with dietary guidelines, and save money? Cook dinner at home

CORVALLIS, Ore. - The best culinary paths to better health are not always paved with cash, new research shows, and...

Wasps and wine: Paper wasps contribute to sour rot disease, a scourge of wine industry

Credit: Sean D. Boyden, undergraduate student in the Department of Biology at Tufts University. MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (April 26, 2017) - Come...

UF receives up to $8.4 million from DoD to study brain training using electric stimulation

The U.S. Defense Department is looking for ways to speed up cognitive skills training -- the types of skills useful...

Researcher says customized content on political websites hurts democracy

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Having it your way on political websites and seeing only the content that aligns with your beliefs...

A chicken-egg question: Where do baby genes come from?

Credit: Steven Meckler New genes are more likely to appear on the stage of evolution in full-fledged form rather than...

CSHL, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative collaborate to boost sharing of scientific research

Cold Spring Harbor, NY -- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today announced a new collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative...

Researchers to provide chronic heart failure patients easy access to their own data

Credit: School of Informatics and Computing INDIANAPOLIS -- A team of researchers is creating new information technology to help older...

Engineers shine light on deadly landslide