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Stabilizing evolutionary forces keep ants strong
Hokkaido University researchers are finding evidence of natural selection that maintains the status quo among ant populations. A type of...
An ‘IRBIT’uary before cell death
Credit: RIKEN Billions of cells in our bodies die every day in an important process called apoptosis. Now, researchers at...
Predicting future sports rankings from evolving performance
Competitive sports and games are all about the performance of players and teams, which results in performance-based hierarchies. Because such...
New antimatter breakthrough to help illuminate mysteries of the Big Bang
Credit: Professor Niels Madsen Swansea University scientists working at CERN have made a landmark finding, taking them one step closer...
Bioinformatics brings to light new combinations of drugs to fight breast cancer
Credit: IRB Barcelona Based on the study of cell signalling networks, the cell signals that drugs alter when they reach...
Male bumblebees leave home without looking back
Credit: Théo Robert Male bumblebees leave home and fly away without looking back, making no effort to remember the location...
University of Zurich to become global center for biodiversity research
Credit: University of Zurich UZH succeeded in bringing the International Project Office of bioDISCOVERY to Zurich following negotiations with the...
Genetic mutations could increase risk of cytomegalovirus infection
Credit: Wikimedia user . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU...
Professor Daniel Zilberman receives Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
Credit: Professor Daniel Zilberman The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded new John Innes Centre (JIC) Project Leader Professor Daniel...
The world’s first demonstration of spintronics-based artificial intelligence
Credit: Shunsuke Fukami (Tohoku University) Researchers at Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated the basic operation of...
Closer ties for silver clusters
Credit: Reproduced with permission © 2016 American Chemical Society. Tiny clusters of silver atoms arranged with atomic level precision could...
Bionic pancreas system successfully controls blood sugar without risk of hypoglycemia
The bionic pancreas system developed by Boston University (BU) investigators proved better than either conventional or sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy...
New model more accurately predicts breast cancer risk in Hispanic women
A new breast cancer model, published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, will help health care providers...
Does ‘publication bias’ affect the ‘canonization’ of facts in science?
Researchers model how 'publication bias' does -- and doesn't -- affect the 'canonization' of facts in science Arguing in a...
Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY-Scientists studying high temperature superconductors-materials that carry electric current with no energy loss when cooled...
Sunlight offers surprise benefit — it energizes infection fighting T cells
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- Sunlight allows us to make vitamin D, credited with healthier living, but a surprise research...
Amazonia’s best and worst areas for carbon recovery revealed
Credit: Piponiot et al., eLife The first mapping of carbon recovery in Amazonian forests following emissions released by commercial logging...
Scientific ‘facts’ could be false
Credit: Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen. When is a scientific result true or false? Experiments always have a certain proportion of...
Become soya- friendly
Soya is one of the most ancient cultivated plants. The cultivation of soya was mentioned in the early Chinese literature...
Researchers identify new suppressor effects of the NOX4 protein in liver cancer
Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the TGF-beta and Cancer group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), in collaboration with King's College...
