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What makes your voice yours?
Washington, D.C., December 2, 2016 -- What are the characteristics of the way you say, "hello," (or anything else for...
Team to build health informatics platform for patient care coordination
Credit: UT Dallas Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas will take part in a project that aims to...
Overcoming the limitations of optical microscopy
Credit: Copyright: Benjamin Judkewitz, Charité. Having played a central role in the advent of modern life sciences, optical microscopy is...
Cataracts linked to increased odds of depression in older adults
December 2, 2016 - Older adults with cataracts are more likely to have symptoms of depression, reports a study in...
Treatment significantly reduces chemotherapy-induced hearing loss in children
Investigators from Children's Hospital Los Angeles and 37 other Children's Oncology Group hospitals in the U.S. and Canada have determined...
NASA’s AIM observes early noctilucent ice clouds over Antarctica
Credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU-LASP/AIM/Joy Ng, producer Data from NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, spacecraft shows the sky over...
Alpha blockers more effective for large kidney stones
Credit: University of Michigan Health System Nearly one in 11 Americans will have a kidney stone in their lifetime, causing...
Novel anti-PSMA imaging agent quickly identifies prostate cancer lesions
Credit: Neeta Pandit-Taskar, M.D., and Michael J. Morris, M.D., Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New research demonstrates that a novel...
Controlling chain conformations to enhance electronic devices
Controlling the way fluorinated polymer chains twist and turn may enable fast and flexible electrical circuits, according to collaborative research...
NASA’s Sun-observing IRIS mission
While it seems static from our vantage point on Earth 93 million miles away, the sun is constantly changing. Under...
Dabigatran superior to warfarin when anticoagulation is resumed after bleeding
Credit: Tim Betler/UPMC PITTSBURGH, Dec. 1, 2016 - In the first analysis of how to treat patients on anticoagulants who...
New evidence on the formation of the solar system
Credit: Bernhard Mueller, MNRAS 453, 287-310 (2015) International research involving a Monash University scientist is using new computer models and...
Researchers use genes as early warning system for harmful algae blooms
Credit: Mary Lide Parker, UNC-Chapel Hill In one of the most comprehensive studies to date, University of North Carolina at...
Biologists unlock 51.7-million-year-old genetic secret to landmark Darwin theory
Scientists have identified the cluster of genes responsible for reproductive traits in the Primula flower, first noted as important by...
Open-source tools accelerate plant breeding in developing countries
Credit: Image by Yoseph Beyenne ITHACA, NY--Crop breeders in developing countries can now access free tools to accelerate the breeding...
China’s pristine parks get more merit
Research, published as How Pristine Are China's Parks? in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, found that the numerous smaller parks...
PolyU and Huawei jointly set up the first lab in optical communication and advanced computing system in Hong Kong
Credit: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is proud to unveil the plaque today (30...
Dresden-based carbon concrete scientists win the Deutsche Zukunftspreis 2016
Credit: Deutscher Zukunftspreis / bildschoen TU Dresden's team of researchers was one of the three finalists, and managed to successfully...
Advanced soft tissue sarcomas respond to new drug GDC-0575 combined with gemcitabine
Munich, Germany: Researchers working to find effective treatments for soft tissue sarcomas have discovered that combining a new anti-cancer drug...
A drug that inhibits the Notch signalling process is active in a range of advanced cancers
Munich, Germany: A new anti-cancer drug that inhibits a key cell signalling process involved in many different cancers has shown...
