NASA launches rocket in search of aurora answers
Credit: NASA Wallops/Terry Zaperach NASA launched one of its largest sounding rockets Sunday from an East Coast facility in an experiment led by a University...
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Indigenous co-management essential for protecting, restoring Bears Ears region
Credit: Pavlik et al. (2021) PNAS Indigenous people have lived in the Bears Ears region of southeastern Utah for millennia. Ancestral Pueblos built elaborate houses,...
COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies reduce risk of hospitalization and death
Credit: UPMC PITTSBURGH, May 17, 2021 - Monoclonal antibodies, a COVID-19 treatment given early after coronavirus infection, cut the risk of hospitalization and death by...
Research reveals potential treatment to prevent obesity-driven liver damage
Team led by experts at Cincinnati Children's reports success- in mice-at controlling a subgroup of immune system cells that trigger non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)Credit:...
Scientists shed light on the mechanism of photoactivation of the orange carotenoid protein
Biochemists from the Federal Research Centre of Biotechnology RAS and their international colleagues have deciphered an activation mechanism of the Orange Carotenoid Protein (OCP)Credit: Nikolai...
Caltech professor helps solve Hindenburg disaster
Credit: Caltech On the evening of May 6, 1937, the largest aircraft ever built by mankind, a towering example of technological prowess, slipped through the...
Fundamental mechanism discovered that fine-tunes gene expression & is disrupted in cancer
Study reveals a novel mechanism that can be targeted for cancer therapy and is mediated by the Integrator transcriptional complexCredit: The Wistar Institute PHILADELPHIA and...
Therapeutics that can shut down harmful genes need a reliable delivery system
Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Viruses attack the body by sending their genetic code -- DNA and RNA -- into cells and multiplying....
New approach to growing cubic boron nitride: a pathway to next-gen semiconductors
Lehigh University materials researcher Siddha Pimputkar wins NSF CAREER award to develop novel method of growing bulk single-crystal nitrides--an advance that could lead to more-efficient,...
UTHSC researchers awarded $4.5 million to launch new Tennessee Heart Health Network
Credit: UTHSC Memphis, Tenn. (May 17, 2021) - Researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center have received a $4.5 million grant over three...
New tools needed to prevent plant disease pandemics
Plant disease surveillance, detection can preserve food securityCredit: NC State University Plant diseases don't stop at a nation's borders and miles of oceans don't prevent...
Diamonds engage both optical microscopy and MRI for better imaging
Nitrogen vacancy centers in microdiamond tracers enable dual imaging to probe deeper in tissueCredit: Ashok Ajoy, UC Berkeley When doctors or scientists want to peer...
Slow research to understand fast change
Forty years of experiments, observation, modeling and theory may be just what's needed to see where the world is headedCredit: Barbara Van Slyke, Konza LTER....
New technology makes tumor eliminate itself
Credit: Plückthun Lab A new technology developed by UZH researchers enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they...
In enabling rural administration, bureaucracy does not enslave actors
How to support entrepreneurship in rural areas? The over-regulation and bureaucratic administration of the European Union's rural policy are seen as burdening rather than supporting...
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