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2018 Woman in Science Award goes to UIC women’s mental health expert
Credit: Roberta Dupuis-Devlin Dr. Pauline Maki, professor of psychology and psychiatry in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of...
Multiphoton Microscopy and Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Credit: De Gruyter This monograph focuses on modern femtosecond laser microscopes for two photon imaging and nanoprocessing, on laser tweezers...
Study shows improving pediatric asthma care is possible
Credit: Connecticut Children's Pediatric asthma is the most common chronic childhood condition and a leading cause of pediatric hospital admissions....
Vertical measurements of air pollutants in urban Beijing
Credit: The photo on the left was taken by SUN Yele; The photo on the right was taken by the...
Virus-like particle could lead to new cancer vaccine
Credit: Michigan State University Michigan State University scientists are engineering a virus-like particle, known as Qβ, that will generate anti-cancer...
Spring is springing earlier in polar regions than across the rest of earth
Credit: Eric Post/UC Davis Spring is arriving earlier, but how much earlier? The answer depends where on Earth you find...
How the brain makes predictions
Credit: Uwe Dettmar FRANKFURT. Goethe University Frankfurt can boast another EU-funded research project: With the appointment of Yee Lee Shing...
Previously unknown ‘supercolony’ of Adélie penguins discovered in Antarctica
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) In a paper released on March 2nd in the journal Scientific Reports, the scientists announced the...
Thawing permafrost causing the ‘browning’ of northern lakes
As ice the melts, the organic carbon found in permafrost is being released once again after ages of confinement in...
Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber
Credit: University of East Anglia Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber plantations Efforts...
Simplifying samples
Credit: Washington University in St. Louis Imagine a physician in a rural or remote area who needs to send a...
Researchers find transferable antibiotic resistance gene in pathogen of developing nations
Washington, DC - March 2, 2018 - A team of investigators has found that the mcr-1 drug resistance gene, which...
Scientists use satellites and drones to discover antarctic penguin ‘super-colonies’
(Louisiana State University) A recent scientific expedition to the Danger Islands, a remote group of tiny islands along eastern side...
Study in six countries identifies groups that are vulnerable to severe mental illness
Young males, ethnic minorities and people living in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience first-episode psychosis, defined as...
Do racial and gender disparities exist in newer glaucoma treatments?
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Glaucoma Society today announced that it has awarded a grant to Mildred MG Olivier, MD,...
New UTSA lab addresses pediatric feeding disorders
Bryant Silbaugh, assistant professor of special education in The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Department of Interdisciplinary Learning...
Children with marginally low birth weight needs treatment
Credit: Anders Friberg Children with a birth weight under 2.5 kilos stand at risk of becoming underweight and can experience...
3-D-written model to provide better understanding of cancer spread
Credit: (Purdue University image/Luis Solorio) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue researcher Luis Solorio has helped create a lifelike cancer environment...
Bubbles of life from the past
Credit: Stefan Bengtson Take a good look at these photos: They show you 1.6 billion years old fossilized oxygen bubbles,...
New research showed better survival outcomes in one type of heart failure
Singapore - A joint 7-year cohort study of 2039 patients in both Singapore's restructured hospitals and New Zealand's hospitals, revealed...
