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October 7, 2025

Your ‘anonmyized’ web browsing history may not be anonymous

Credit: Frank Wojciechowski Raising further questions about privacy on the internet, researchers from Princeton and Stanford universities have released a...

Treated carbon pulls radioactive elements from water

Credit: Kazan Federal University Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract...

‘FishTaco’ sorts out who is doing what in your microbiome

A growing body of evidence indicates that the trillions of microbes that live on and inside our bodies affect our...

Seeking structure with metagenome sequences

Credit: Image of Great Boiling Spring by Brian Hedlund, UNLV. Protein structure and composite image by Sergey Ovchinnikov, UW For...

System links data scattered across files, for easy querying

The age of big data has seen a host of new techniques for analyzing large data sets. But before any...

New genetic engineering technique could help design, study biological systems

Credit: Robert Boston A new technique will help biologists tinker with genes, whether the goal is to turn cells into...

Breast cancer prognosis of African-American patients may improve with chemotherapy before surgery

ATLANTA--Administering chemotherapy to African-American breast cancer patients prior to surgery could improve their prognosis and survival rates from the disease,...

New, old science combine to make faster medical test

Credit: Courtesy University of Central Florida A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than...

Team discovers how bacteria exploit a chink in the body’s armor

Credit: Photo courtesy the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Scientists have discovered how a unique...

New book explores why the discovery of sex in plants took so long

Credit: Oxford University Press Sexual reproduction in animals has been recognized since ancient times and used in the breeding of...

How much drought can a forest take?

Credit: USFS Region 5 Why do some trees die in a drought and others don't? And how can we predict...

USDA announces $8.8 million available for agricultural programs at Hispanic serving institutions

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture today announced availability...

USDA invests $13.6 million in citrus greening research

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced...

Queen’s researcher publishes new findings on how plants manage immune response

KINGSTON - New research, being published tomorrow in the journal Science, has uncovered a previously unknown means by which plants...

Scientists uncover the genetic history of cocoa in Brazil

The saga of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) in southern Bahia is part of Brazil's economic and cultural history. Brazil was once...

Study discusses model for understanding nutrition and brain development

Credit: Photo courtesy of University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. -Pediatric nutrition research has sh own the important effects of early-life...

UTA works with Boeing, NASA, MIT to improve online students’ completion rates

Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working with Boeing, NASA and Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

New smartwatch application for accurate signature verification developed by Ben-Gurion U

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...January 19, 2017 - An innovative, new system that uses smartwatch devices and software to verify handwritten signatures and...

Theorists propose new class of topological metals with exotic electronic properties

Credit: Lukas Muechler Researchers at Princeton, Yale, and the University of Zurich have proposed a theory-based approach to characterize a...

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