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UMass Amherst research investigating pollutant effects on embryos in three model species
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Environmental health scientist Alicia Timme-Laragy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a...
Carbon coating gives biochar its garden-greening power
Credit: Nikolas Hagemann/University of Tübingen For more than 100 years, biochar, a carbon-rich, charcoal-like substance made from oxygen-deprived plant or...
Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row
The annual assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by the JRC and the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) confirms...
‘Selfish brain’ wins out when competing with muscle power, study finds
Credit: Danny Longman Human brains are expensive - metabolically speaking. It takes lot of energy to run our sophisticated grey...
2017 AIP Science Writing Award Winners announced
WASHINGTON, D.C., OCT. 20, 2017 -- The American Institute of Physics announced today the winners of its 2017 Science Communication...
Study reveals connection between microbiome and autoimmune disorders
Credit: University of Calgary Many people associate the word "bacteria" with something dirty and disgusting. Dr. Pere Santamaria disagrees. Called...
Andy Tay Kah Ping honored with inaugural MRS Bulletin Postdoctoral Publication Prize
Credit: Andy Tay Kah Ping MRS Bulletin has named Andy Tay Kah Ping, Stanford University, as the inaugural recipient of...
Chromosomes may be knotted
Credit: Ill./ ©: Jonathan Siebert, JGU Everyone knows that long bits of yarn, or charging cables and the like, tend...
Research predicts increase in inflammatory bowel disease in developing world
For the last century, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been a challenge for patients and the medical community in the...
Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center hosts 4th Annual PTCOG-NA Conference in Chicago
The Northwestern Medicine Chicago Proton Center will host over 200 leading clinicians, physicists and researchers in the growing field of...
Researchers pinpoint causes for spike in breast cancer genetic testing
Athens, Ga. -- A sharp rise in the number of women seeking BRCA genetic testing to evaluate their risk of...
Study shows how nerves drive prostate cancer
Credit: Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicne October 19, 2017--(Bronx, NY)--In a study in today's issue of Science, researchers...
Number of newly diagnosed cancer patients without insurance drops in first year of ACA
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The number of newly diagnosed cancer patients who were uninsured fell by one-third in...
Gene circuit switches on inside cancer cells, triggers immune attack
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Researchers at MIT have developed a synthetic gene circuit that triggers the body's immune system to attack...