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Great Barrier Reef almost drowned; climate implications
Credit: University of Sydney An analysis of the Great Barrier Reef during a time prior to it becoming the modern...
New plant named to honor the peace-making efforts of the Colombian President
(Pensoft Publishers) Named to honor the peace-making efforts of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, a new species of the sunflower...
The BGRF joins Diversity.AI to prevent age discrimination in aging biomarker development
Credit: Diversity.AI (http://diversity.ai/) Earlier this year scientists at the Biogerontology Research Foundation contributed to the development of Aging.AI, which utilized...
The 22nd Nagoya Medal Award lectures
The Nagoya Medal Prize was initially proposed by Professor Hisashi Yamamoto and Professor Ryoji Noyori, and founded in 1995 with...
Halting lethal childhood leukemia
Rare leukemia primarily strikes newborns and infants Less than 10 to 20 percent of children live more than five years...
Indoor tanning study reveals surprising new at-risk group for skin cancer
Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 (SAN DIEGO) - In a new study of indoor tanning and skin cancer risk, the use...
Open-source plant database confirms top US bioenergy crop
Credit: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois Scientists have confirmed that Miscanthus, long speculated to be the top biofuel producer,...
Worms have teenage ambivalence, too
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Jan. 5, 2017) Anyone who has allowed a child to "help" with a project...
Older lung cancer patients face significant treatment burden
Depending on the type of treatment older lung cancer patients receive, they can spend an average of one in three...
Consumption of grilled meat linked to higher mortality risk among breast cancer survivors
Findings published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicate that higher consumption of grilled, barbecued, and smoked meat...
Research sheds new light on high-altitude settlement in Tibet
Humans likely established permanent settlements on the high-altitude Tibetan Plateau between 13,000-7,400 years ago, according to new research published this...
Using fat to help wounds heal without scars
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Doctors have found a way to manipulate wounds to heal as regenerated skin rather than...
Measuring trees with the speed of sound
Credit: Javier O. Ballesteros and Gregory S. Gilbert. From Gilbert, Gregory S., Javier O. Ballesteros, Cesar A. Barrios-Rodriguez, Ernesto F....
Arctic sea ice loss impacts beluga whale migration
Credit: Kate Stafford/University of Washington The annual migration of some beluga whales in Alaska is altered by sea ice changes...
Scientists use light to control the logic networks of a cell
Proteins are the workhorse molecules of life. Among their many jobs, they carry oxygen, build tissue, copy DNA for the...
Anemia protects African children against malaria
Credit: Carla Cerami Chapel Hill, NC - Iron deficiency is the most common nutritional deficiency in the world and causes...
Research helps explain why androgen-deprivation therapy doesn’t work for many prostate cancers
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Metastatic prostate cancer, or prostate cancer that has spread to other organs, is incurable. In new research...
Scaling up marine conservation targets should benefit millions of people
Credit: Flickr user, pauljill About 200 countries worldwide committed to protecting 10% of national marine areas by signing the Convention...
South American fossil tomatillos show nightshades evolved earlier than thought
Credit: Peter Wilf, Penn State Delicate fossil remains of tomatillos found in Patagonia, Argentina, show that this branch of the...
Julio Ottino awarded top national academy prize for innovative education
Credit: Northwestern University EVANSTON, Ill. --- Julio M. Ottino, dean of the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, has...