Sir Charles Lyell’s historical fossils (London’s Natural History Museum) accessible online
Credit: Mark Lewis More than 1,700 animal and plant specimens from the collection of eminent British geologist Sir Charles Lyell - known as the pioneer...
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How genes affect tobacco and alcohol use
Data from 1.2 million people reveal how tobacco and alcohol use may be linked to your genes and to various diseases The use of alcohol...
Native California medicinal plant may hold promise for treating Alzheimer’s
Salk scientists identify possible healing compound in Yerba santaCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(February 20, 2019) The medicinal powers of aspirin, digitalis, and the anti-malarial artemisinin...
GraphON: Conductive coatings and materials breakthrough
Credit: CSIRO Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has created a breakthrough new form of graphitic material that's conductive, easy to apply and offers greater control...
Putting data privacy in the hands of users
New platform acts as a gatekeeper to ensure web services adhere to a user's custom data restrictions CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A new platform developed by...
Superconduction: Why does it have to be so cold?
Scientists at TU Wien have figured out a new way to approach the question why superconductivity only works at extremely low temperaturesCredit: TU Wien Why...
The Mark Foundation funds 14 new cancer innovation projects
$3.4 million in ASPIRE awards announced to support cancer research NEW YORK, NY -- The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research has selected fourteen outstanding scientific...
New AI able to identify and predict the development of cancer symptom clusters
Cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy could soon benefit from a new AI that is able to identify and predict the development of different combinations of...
New compound could help treat ovarian cancer
Scientists find new drugs compound for treating cancer Cancer is less likely to become resistant to the compound than standard chemotherapy The compound could be...
Health-related Google searches doubled in week before ER visits
Health-related internet searches doubled during the week before patients visited an emergency department, according to a new study from researchers at Penn Medicine who examined...
Computer simulators show how to reduce damage to lungs of children in intensive care
Credit: University of Warwick Mechanical ventilation of children in intensive care units is often necessary, but can damage the lungs of critically ill patients It's...
Rice University researchers unveil Internet of Things security feature
'Physically unclonable function' is 10 times more reliable than previous methodsCredit: Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University SAN FRANCISCO -- (Feb. 20, 2019) -- Rice University...
Life-changing magic of tidying up: Complex structures’ organization studied in slime mold
How cells organize into complex structures studied in slime moldCredit: Fujimori et al. 2019, PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815063116 Researchers in Japan think they have found an...
Engage with the world’s most talented mathematicians and computer scientists in Heidelberg!
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum enables selected young researchers to profoundly network with the laureates of mathematics and computer science This September, recipients of the Abel...
Cocktail of common antibiotics can fight resistant E. coli
Scientists from DTU have discovered that a combination of two common antibiotics can eliminate multi-drug resistant E. coli causing urinary tract infections; this combination treatment...
