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New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms
Credit: NASA/CCMC/University of Michigan/Joy Ng The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel...
Gene therapy for pompe disease effective in mice, poised for human trials
Credit: Shawn Rocco/ Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- After decades investigating a rare, life-threatening condition that cripples the muscles, Duke...
Research grant for development of positron pulses of unprecedented intensity
The German research foundation DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has granted 750,000 euros for the research project "Creation of intense positron pulses...
CU Boulder team to track methane leaks using lasers
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has secured a $1.3 million grant from the Department...
New insights into brain circuit for hunger responses during starvation
Credit: Kazuhiro Nakamura Nagoya, Japan - The human body responds to starving conditions, such as famine, to promote the chance...
How fast is the universe expanding? Quasars provide an answer
Credit: ©ESA/Hubble, NASA, Suyu et al. The H0LiCOW collaboration, a cosmology project led by EPFL and Max Planck Institute and...
Cosmic lenses support finding on faster than expected expansion of the universe
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Suyu et al. By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers using the...
Sound waves create whirlpools to round up tiny signs of disease
Credit: Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a tiny whirlpool that can concentrate nanoparticles...
Tecnalia is participating in IDeCON, for the deployment of offshore renewable energies
In this framework and under the name of IDeCON, an international consortium of recognised prestige, in which Tecnalia is participating,...
Rapid gas flares discovered in white dwarf star for the first time
Credit: Professor Robert Hynes, University of Louisiana Incredibly rapid gas flares from a white dwarf binary star system have been...
Russian-Japanese research helps understand the effects of microgravity on bone tissue
The paper appeared in Scientific Reports. The co-authors from the Russian side are Oleg Gusev (Extreme Biology Lab, Kazan Federal...
A common medication restores social deficits in Autism mouse model
Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 26, 2017 - Reducing the function of the autism-associated gene Pcdh10 leads to impairments in social behavior,...
Antioxidants get small
Credit: Tour Group/Rice University Treated particles of graphene derived from carbon nanotubes have demonstrated remarkable potential as life-saving antioxidants, but...
Dual energy computed tomography angiography in the peripheral arterial imaging
This is a systematic review of 9 studies on the diagnostic applications of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) in peripheral arterial...
Media registration now open for ‘Bio in Beer-Sheva, Israel: The Murray Fromson Journalism Fellowship’
News Media Registration Now Open for "Bio in Beer-Sheva, Israel: The 12th Annual Murray Fromson Journalism Fellowship New Medical/Biomedical Research...
Pilot plant to obtain strategic metals through energy recovery from SUW
Strategic metals are a group of elements present in the Earth in very small quantities, but which are critical in...
Tiny exports signal big shifts in cancer tissue, researchers find
Credit: Image courtesy of Stephen Boppart and Haohua Tu CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Microscopic shifts in metabolism and increases in tiny...
Tissue engineering advance reduces heart failure in model of heart attack
Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Researchers have grown heart tissue by seeding a mix of human cells onto a 1-micron-resolution...
Over to you, automation
Many recent human factors studies of takeover time in automated vehicles have looked at how long it takes a driver...
Surgical eye robot performs precision-injection in patient with retinal vein occlusion
Credit: KU Leuven Surgeons of University Hospitals Leuven have been the first to operate on a patient with retinal vein...
