Science News
What’s the real extent of industry payments to doctors?
More than three in every five Americans see a doctor who receives some form of payment from industry. This is...
A new look at the nature of dark matter
Credit: NASA/Jason Cowan (Astronomy Technology Center). The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass...
Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises
Credit: Ignacio Trujillo (IAC) with images from the HUDF 2012 programme. Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early...
Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its...
AGU’s newest open access journal GeoHealth publishes first articles
Washington, DC-- The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Wiley today announced that GeoHealth, AGU's newest open access journal, has published...
Research survey evaluates attitudes toward microfluidics-based cell culture
Organ-on-chip and 3D cell culture technology have been highlighted as promising ways to ease the cost and inefficiency of the...
New approach for matching production and consumption of renewable electricity
Credit: VTT VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the BALANCE project, which brings together leading European research institutes...
Space energy technology restored to make power stations more efficient
Credit: © Elsevier Oxford, United Kingdom, March 6, 2017 - Satellite-powering technology that was abandoned decades ago has been reinvented...
Low-cost monitoring device uses light to quickly detect oil spills
Credit: Oscar Sampedro, Universidade de Vigo. WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a simple device that can detect an oil spill...
Fluciclovine PET/CT improves radiotherapy targeting for recurrent prostate cancer
Credit: Ashesh B. Jani, MD, and David Schuster, MD, Emory University. Reston, Va. (March 6, 2017) - The featured clinical...
Research into palliative care top priority for cancer patients
How and when people are referred to palliative care should be prioritised according to cancer patients, a new study in...
The Darknet protects itself by being more robust against attacks
Credit: ©URV The Darknet is a part of the internet that people can access and use anonymously. This privacy and...
New deep learning techniques analyze athletes’ decision-making
Sports analytics is routinely used to assign values to such things as shots taken or to compare player performance, but...
Easier diagnosis of esophageal cancer
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging at Helmholtz Zentrum...
Cebit 2017: Post-print customization of 3-D prints
„After printing, the 3-D object is static. You can no longer change it or adapt it to your needs," says...
Biophysicists propose new approach for membrane protein crystallization
Credit: MIPT Press Office A team of scientists from the Laboratory for Advanced Studies of Membrane Proteins at MIPT, Research...
Revolutionary process to create ether from esters using metal catalysts
Credit: Waseda University Tokyo, Mar 3, 2017 -- A group of Waseda University researchers has developed a new process using...
The Estée Lauder companies R&D creates new model explaining why periorbital skin ages faster
(Spectrum) The Estée Lauder Companies (NYSE: EL) Research & Development (R&D) announced today a new biomechanical eye model that mimics...
Very different cities have similar potential for ride sharing
A newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests that urban ride-sharing is feasible in a wide variety of cities...
How molecular machines may drive the future of disease detection and drug delivery
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio University of Alberta scientists have pulled into the lead in a race to use nanomachines for improved...
