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Monitoring changes in wetland extent can help predict the rate of climate change
Monitoring changes to the amount of wetlands in regions where permafrost is thawing should be at the forefront of efforts...
UA researchers: Brains evolved to need exercise
Mounting scientific evidence shows that exercise is good not only for our bodies, but for our brains. Yet, exactly why...
Gene mutation linked to retinitis pigmentosa in Southwestern US Hispanic families
Credit: UTHealth HOUSTON - (June 26, 2017) - Thirty-six percent of Hispanic families in the U.S. with a common form...
Integrated medical records can reduce disparities between blacks and whites in HIV care
FINDINGS A streamlined and integrated method of tracking medical records called a laboratory health information exchange narrowed the gap in...
Using body noise to improve cancer detection
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Elastography, sometimes referred as seismology of the human body, is an emerging technology used...
Tiny bubbles offer sound solution for drug delivery
Credit: Miles M. Aron, courtesy of BUBBL, University of Oxford, England WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Your brain is...
Exploring the potential of human echolocation
Credit: Kurt Vikman WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- People who are visually impaired will often use a cane to...
Seeing with your ears
Credit: Ghost Orchestra Project/LIMSI WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame has a ghost orchestra that...
Inauguration of the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with an appeal for climate protection
The 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was today inaugurated in Lindau on the banks of Lake Constance in Germany. The...
Scratch test — wound healing disrupted by smoke but not by Vype e-cigarette vapor
Credit: British American Tobacco A new laboratory study reveals that cigarette smoke completely prevented wound healing at concentrations over 20%...
Lending plants a hand to survive drought
Credit: Stuart Hay, ANU The findings have helped some plants survive 50 percent longer in drought conditions, and could eventually...
NIST/CU team launches ‘comb and copter’ system to map atmospheric gases
Credit: Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder...
Targeted drug shows promise in rare advanced kidney cancer
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer institute BOSTON -- Some patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis...
Don’t leave baby boomers behind when designing wearable technology
Wearable devices have been heralded as one of the next great technological frontiers. They can provide all users, including older...
Dune ecosystem modelling
Credit: Photo: Christine Hellmann Acacia longifolia, which is native to Australia, is a species which was cultivated in Portugal primarily...
Immunotherapy kinder than chemotherapy for patients with head and neck cancer
The immunotherapy nivolumab is kinder than chemotherapy for people with advanced head and neck cancer - easing many of the...
Dietary and lifestyle recommendations for patients at risk of macular degeneration
But how often do ophthalmologists and optometrists in Sweden recommend the use of nutritional supplements, changes in diet, or smoking...
Senate health reform proposal jeopardizes care for us all as we age, AGS experts
Credit: (C) 2017, American Geriatrics Society The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) opposes the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (BCRA)....
Sweet bribes for ants are key to crops bearing fruit, study shows
Credit: Nora Villamil-Buenrostro Flowering crops such as beans and cotton offer their sweetest nectar to recruit colonising ants in a...
Putting others first can cost lives in emergencies
Selfless heroism isn't the best strategy in life-and-death disaster situations involving groups of people, a new study from the University...
