Chronic kidney disease abstracts to be presented at ACC’s Annual Meeting
The ACC celebrates World Kidney Day as part of broader awareness efforts The American College of Cardiology will participate in the health awareness campaign for...
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Are we running out of helium (video)?
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 14, 2019 -- Did you realize that just like certain animals here on Earth, there are endangered elements,...
Drug hunters awarded $2.8 million to develop a drug to treat multiple sclerosis
Credit: Virginia Tech Webster Santos, professor of chemistry and the Cliff and Agnes Lilly Faculty Fellow in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, has...
Engineering living ‘scaffolds’ for building materials
Researchers at Berkeley Lab take cues from nature to form living materials with unprecedented control and versatilityCredit: Berkeley Lab When the inside of a mollusk...
Researchers use algorithm from Netflix challenge to speed up biological imaging
Record-fast speeds make classical Raman spectroscopy more practical for biomedical applications WASHINGTON -- Researchers have repurposed an algorithm originally developed for Netflix's 2009 movie preference...
Traffic accidents involving moose are 13 times more likely to result in human death
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study details hazards of moose-motor vehicle crashes in northern New EnglandCredit: Maine State Police CHICAGO (March 14, 2019):...
Chemical storage of renewable energies
KIT coordinates Germany-wide DFG Priority Program -- Investigation of catalytic systems under fluctuating operation conditions when using wind and solar energyCredit: photo: Pascal Armbruster, KIT...
Researchers find epigenetic loss that changes how cells obtain energy from cancer
Cheap energy for the tumor cellCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA It has been known for decades that cancer cells have an altered metabolism and it is...
Bullying evolves with age and proves difficult to escape from
Bullying is a harmful antisocial behavior present in schools all over the world. Involvement in bullying, as either perpetrators or victims, have serious short-term and...
Renewable energy won’t make Bitcoin ‘green,’ but tweaking its mining mechanism might
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is known for its massive energy footprint. Now, researcher Alex de Vries, from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the Netherlands, suggests that renewable hydropower...
Three new honorary doctors at Karolinska Institutet
Paolo Chiesi, Douglas Easton, and Sophie Ekman appointed in 2019 Three new honorary doctors have been appointed by the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. Paolo...
New technology accelerates the science of deceleration
Researchers look at ways to improve standard braking systemsCredit: UBC Okanagan While it's not a case of reinventing the wheel, researchers are looking at ways...
A cosmic bat in flight
ESO's Cosmic Gems Programme captures the Cosmic Bat's dusty cloudsCredit: ESO ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT has caught a glimpse of an ethereal nebula hidden...
Duplicate or mirror?
Laser light determines chirality of molecules "In pharmaceutics, being able to transition a molecule from one chirality to the other using light instead of wet...
Artificial intelligence learns to predict elementary particle signals
Scientists from the Higher School of Economics and Yandex have developed a method that accelerates the simulation of processes at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)....
