A new technology developed to detect and analyze colorless and transparent biomaterials
Credit: © DGIST DGIST announced on Wednesday, February 20 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information ...
Weather-responsive intersections could ease traffic congestion
Cities could ease congestion and improve safety during snowstorms by tweaking the timing of traffic lights to take road conditions ...
Discovering the next generation of catalysts
Energy The use of solar and wind energy must be doubled to meet the world's demand for clean energy over ...
SDSU study looks to limit secondhand smoke in homes with children
A San Diego State University study found some parents who smoke at home can be nudged outdoors with a combination ...
A silver lining like no other
Self-sterilizing microneedles revolutionizing vaccination and drug deliveryCredit: University of South Australia Vaccinations are the world's frontline defence against infectious diseases ...
Life-threatening birth complication rate increasing across US racial, ethnic groups
NIH-funded analysis suggests need for more research to identify causes WHAT: Racial and ethnic disparities in severe maternal morbidity--life-threatening maternal ...
NEHI recommends action on adoption of next generation therapies in Massachusetts
Credit: NEHI March 5, 2019, BOSTON--NEHI (The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation) released a white paper today recommending that ...
FAU receives $3 million grant for dementia prevention initiative
Credit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University By 2050 about 16 million Americans and 60 million people worldwide will be affected ...
Scientists develop a tunable bio-imaging device using terahertz plasmonics
Non-inasive terahertz sensing could be a game changer for future diagnosticsCredit: Scientific Reports Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo ...
Could genetic breakthrough finally help take the sting out of mouth ulcers?
Scientists identify genes associated with mouth ulcers A large breakthrough has been made in the genetic understanding of mouth ulcers ...
Small brains, big picture: Study unveils C. elegans’ microscopic mysteries
Researchers discover how brain cells in the microscopic worm, C. elegans send electrical signalsCredit: OIST It's the small pieces that ...
University of Utah biologists experimentally trigger adaptive radiation
Preening drives divergent camouflage in feather lice on both micro- and macro-evolutionary timescalesCredit: Adapted from Bush et. al. 2019. Evo ...
Study: Climate change is leading to unpredictable ecosystem disruption for migratory birds
Ithaca, NY--Using data on 77 North American migratory bird species from the eBird citizen-science program, scientists at the Cornell ...
Why the brain can be blamed for children unknowingly being left to die in a hot car
TAMPA, Fla. (March 5, 2019)- More than 50 children died in hot cars in 2018, making it the deadliest year ...
Rethinking old-growth forests using lichens as an indicator of conservation value
Credit: Donna Crossland Ottawa, Mar. 5, 2019 - Two Canadian biologists are proposing a better way to assess the conservation ...
HPTN 071 demonstrates community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections
Credit: HIV Prevention Trials Network DURHAM, NC - Researchers today presented results from the HPTN 071 (PopART) study at the ...
HIV prevention study finds universal ‘test and treat’ approach can reduce new infections
NIH-sponsored trial suggests home-based HIV testing and referral to care works at population levelCredit: Kim Cloete New HIV infections declined ...
TIGER mouse debuts as model for neurological ailments
Credit: David Feliciano / Victoria Neckles CLEMSON, South Carolina - New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a ...
Kidney disease killer vulnerable to targeted nano therapy
CLEMSON, South Carolina -- By loading a chelation drug into a nano-sized homing device, researchers at Clemson University have reversed ...
Do all networks obey the scale-free law? Maybe not
As Benjamin Franklin once joked, death and taxes are universal. Scale-free networks may not be, at least according to a ...
