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New research urges a rethink on global energy subsidies
The hidden toll that subsidies for electricity, fossil fuels, and transport have on social welfare, economic growth and technological innovation...
Enzyme-free krebs cycle may have been key step in origin of life on Earth
Credit: Aleksej Zelezniak/Francis Crick Institute A set of biochemical processes crucial to cellular life on Earth could have originated in...
Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes, says study
Credit: Columbia University The appearance of supermassive black holes at the dawn of the universe has puzzled astronomers since their...
Creation of highly magnetic material could improve computer technologies
Credit: Manners Group, University of Bristol Scientists, led by Professor Ian Manners from the University of Bristol's School of Chemistry,...
Atomic map of malaria drug gives it new life
Credit: Wong et al., 2017 Researchers have mapped how the malaria drug mefloquine works, providing a route to make effective...
Diving with the sharks
Credit: Darcy Bradley Swimming with metaphorical sharks is one thing, but actually getting into the water with the razor-toothed ocean...
WSU researcher finds mechanism triggering spread of prostate cancer to bones
SPOKANE, Wash.--A Washington State University researcher has found a way that prostate cancer cells hijack the body's bone maintenance, facilitating...
1 in 5 breast cancer patients could benefit from existing treatment, genetic study reveals
Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have discovered that a greater number of breast cancers are...
A multidrug efflux pump in motion
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have mapped the conformational changes that occur in a protein "notorious" for pumping chemotherapeutic...
The looming threat of Asian tobacco companies to global health
There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies...
Light scattering spectroscopy helps doctors identify early pancreatic cancer
New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists...
NYU chemists color world of 3-D crystals with advances in self-assembly
A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a...
Ultrashort light pulses for fast ‘lightwave’ computers
ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run...
Atomic map gives malaria drug new lease on life
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the...