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Study: A new way to slow cancer cell growth
Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center Cancer is an extremely complex disease, but its definition is quite simple: the abnormal...
Research could bring ‘drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Credit: University of Central Florida Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a new color changing surface tunable...
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
Credit: Photo courtesy of Michael Schoeppner, Princeton University, Program on Science and Global Security PRINCETON, N.J.--The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission...
Researchers develop magnetic switch to turn on and off a strange quantum property
Credit: Christopher Gutiérrez, Daniel Walkup/NIST When a ballerina pirouettes, twirling a full revolution, she looks just as she did when...
The big star that couldn’t become a supernova
Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Jeffries (STScI) COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the first time in history, astronomers have been able...
Jupiter’s complex transient auroras
Combined observations from three spacecraft show that Jupiter's brightest auroral features recorded to date are powered by both the volcanic...
Collapsing star gives birth to a black hole
Credit: NASA, ESA, and C. Kochanek (OSU) Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a...
Study provides better understanding of how brain tumors ‘feed’
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center All cancer tumors have one thing in common - they must feed themselves to grow...
UW engineers borrow from electronics to build largest circuits in eukaryotic cells
Credit: University of Washington Living cells must constantly process information to keep track of the changing world around them and...
Expressing genetic interactions through music
Loading video... Credit: Max Cooper/Andy Lomas An artistic collaboration between musician and sound producer Max Cooper, respected visual artist Andy...
The best teams of the engineering competition ‘Capture the Flag’ were awarded
Credit: Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University On May 24, at the Plenary session of the International Polytechnic Week,...
Preliminary: BRCA variations may work alongside COMT variation to reduce breast cancer
WASHINGTON (May 25, 2017) -- Research looking at genomic data from women with a genetic risk for breast cancer, who...
Solving the riddle of the snow globe
If you've shaken a snow globe, you've enjoyed watching its tiny particles slowly sink to the bottom. But do all...
Ineffective antibiotics form strong teams against deadly super bacteria
BUFFALO, N.Y. - In the fight against super bacteria, University at Buffalo scientists are relying on strength in numbers to...