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Solar storms trigger surprising phenomena close to Earth
Credit: ESA Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that--among other...
Continuous-flow, electrically-triggered, single cell-level electroporation
Credit: Technology Journal Graduate students Mingde 'Jack' Zheng and Joseph Sherba have developed a novel, microfluidic platform for monitoring electroporation...
What global climate change may mean for leaf litter in streams and rivers
Credit: Walter Dodds Carbon emissions to the atmosphere from streams and rivers are expected to increase as warmer water temperatures...
Cleveland takes new steps to tackle ‘superbugs’
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have made the world a much safer and healthier place. But Shakespeare...
University of Leicester researchers measure Big Ben’s bong
Credit: Carl Vivian : University of Leicester A team from the University of Leicester's Department of Engineering has, for the...
More bang for the buck
Credit: Kirsten Oleson Land-based pollutants have been linked to the degradation of several Hawaiian reefs. Take West Maui, for instance,...
Sex differences in brain activity alter pain therapies
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative...
CCNY-based team develops sustainable, high energy density battery
Researchers at The City College of New York-based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable,...
Danish scientist receives the A.C. Redfield Award
Credit: Photo: Lars Kruse, Aarhus University On Friday, The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) honors Danish...
Toxic cocktail
Today, everyone carries a toxic load of industrially-produced chemicals in their bloodstream: pesticides, plasticizers, disinfectant products, flame-retardants, surfactants, and UV...
City of Hope researchers discover how breast cancer spreads to the brain
DUARTE, Calif. -- Ninety percent of cancer deaths are from cancer spread. Breast cancer patients, for example, typically do not...
Study finds not all women get appropriate care for cervical cancer
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Women with locally advanced cervical cancer whose treatment follows national guidelines for care...
JILA team discovers many new twists in protein folding
Credit: JILA BOULDER, Colo.-- Biophysicists at JILA have measured protein folding in more detail than ever before, revealing behavior that...
Skill trumps luck
Credit: Photo by John Ulan for UAlberta. A team of computing scientists from the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research...
Researchers store computer operating system and short movie on DNA
Loading video... Credit: Columbia University Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape can handle, a...
Most complex nanoparticle crystal ever made by design
Credit: Credit: Glotzer Group, University of Michigan. Copyright: Science EVANSTON, Ill. --- The most complex crystal designed and built from...
Plant dominance in the Amazon is shaped by past civilizations
Credit: Hans ter Steege Plants that were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are, to this day, much more likely to be...
Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
Credit: Hans ter Steege An international team of ecologists and social scientists has shown in a new study published 3...
Colorado Governor is keynote speaker at SSA Annual Meeting
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will be the keynote speaker at the 2017 SSA Annual Meeting's Public Policy Luncheon, scheduled for...
Melting temperature of Earth’s mantle depends on water
Credit: Image is courtesy of Emily Sarafian. Washington, DC--A joint study between Carnegie and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has...