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PPPL physicist uncovers clues to mechanism behind magnetic reconnection
Credit: Fatima Ebrahimi Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has published...
New research on wine fermentation could lead to better bouquet
Washington, DC - Jan. 23, 2017 - The taste of wine arises from a symphony of compounds that are assembled...
Wasps, ants, and Ani DiFranco
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- A University of California, Riverside graduate student has discovered several news species of...
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within 5 attempts
Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...
New steps in the meiosis chromosome dance
Where would we be without meiosis and recombination? For a start, none of us sexually reproducing organisms would be here,...
Regulating ‘gasotransmitters’ could improve care for sleep apnea
Unbalanced signaling by two molecules that regulate breathing leads to sleep apnea in mice and rats, researchers report in the...
Scientists spin artificial silk from whey protein
Credit: Credit: DESY/Eberhard Reimann A Swedish-German team of researchers has cleared up a key process for the artificial production of...
Online media use shows strong genetic influence
Online media use such as social networking and gaming could be strongly influenced by our genes, according to a new...
How do people choose what plants to use?
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic...
Crop achilles’ heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Credit: Don Hamerman/Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be...
Trees supplement income for rural farmers in Africa
Credit: Daniel Miller URBANA, Ill. - Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are...
Bioinvasion is jeopardizing Mediterranean marine communities
Credit: Z. Fayer. Non-indigenous species (NIS) are harming indigenous species and habitats in the Mediterranean Sea, impairing potentially exploitable marine...
Insects and umami receptors
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. (http://www.ucr.edu) -- Insects, like mammals including humans, sort chemicals by taste into a few categories...
Your Android device’s Pattern Lock can be cracked within five attempts
Credit: Lancaster University The popular Pattern Lock system used to secure millions of Android phones can be cracked within just...
On target: UNC researcher arms platelets to deliver cancer immunotherapy
Credit: Photo courtesy of UNC-NC State Joint Biomedical Engineering Program. After surgery to remove a cancerous tumor -- even if...
Using simulation tools to optimize soft robotic systems
Credit: ©Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Jan.23, 2017 -- Simulation is a valuable tool to improve the...
Synthetic nanoparticles achieve the complexity of protein molecules
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Chemists at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that synthetic nanoparticles can achieve the same level of...
Hearst Foundation funds TGen research into cancer-related ‘wasting syndrome’
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Jan. 23, 2017 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has received a $175,000 grant from the...
Microscopic submarines for your stomach
Tiny "submarines" that speed independently through the stomach, use gastric acid for fuel (while rapidly neutralizing it), and release their...
How nicotine acts on the brains of schizophrenic patients
Several studies have indicated that schizophrenic patients are likely to show a high level of nicotine dependence. Scientists from the...
