App detects harsh side effect of breast cancer treatment
Credit: LymphaTech / Georgia Tech Some 20 percent of breast cancer survivors will suffer from lymphedema, a potentially severe side effect of treatment that makes...
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Bargain-hunting for biodiversity
New tool pinpoints conservation targetsCredit: Nathan Bendik, City of Austin KNOXVILLE --The best bargains for conserving some of the world's most vulnerable salamanders and other...
A new strategy for the management of inflammatory pain
Immune cells produce endogenous pain-relieving substancesCredit: Machelska/ Charité A group of researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has discovered a new mechanism of long-lasting pain...
Unraveling the puzzle of Madagascar’s forest cats
Credit: Michelle Sauther In her 30 years working as a researcher in Madagascar, CU Boulder Anthropology Professor Michelle Sauther has had a number of chance...
Against overfishing: save the oldies!
Harvest slots protect fish stocks without compromising fisheries yieldCredit: Philipp Czapla Measures against overfishing tend to protect young, immature fish through measures such as minimum-landing...
Love rivals risk having offspring with a greater number of harmful mutations
Credit: Mareike Koppik Males that face tougher competition for females risk having offspring with a greater number of harmful mutations in their genome than males...
Shifts in deep geologic structure may have magnified great 2011 Japan tsunami
Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angleCredit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020 On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck...
Scientists can now edit multiple genome fragments at a time
CHyMErA: a new tool for simultaneous editing of multple genes and genomic fragmentsCredit: Ernesto del Aguila III, National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH Scientists can...
Shining a light on international energy inequality
Credit: Unequal Scenes, @johnny_miller_photography CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN A new study examines energy inequality for income classes across 86 countries, from highly industrialised to developing...
NASA finds Gretel becoming extra-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Southern Pacific Ocean and captured an image of Tropical Storm Gretel as it was transitioning...
Biophysicists blend incompatible components in one nanofiber
Credit: Elizaveta Pavlova et al./RSC Advances Russian researchers from the Federal Research Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and...
GCS centres to help COVID-19 researchers access HPC resources
German supercomputing centres will expedite HPC access to fight the coronavirus.Credit: Gauss Centre for Supercomputing Effective immediately, the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), the alliance...
Recruiting robots: DoD summit promotes robotics in maintenance and repair
Credit: (Photo: ARM Institute) ARLINGTON, Va.--Inspecting fuel and ballast tanks. Sand-blasting old paint coatings and applying new ones. Removing corrosion on ships, submarines, aircraft and...
Peppered with gold
Research team presents novel transmitter for terahertz wavesCredit: HZDR / Juniks Terahertz waves are becoming ever more important in science and technology. They enable us...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Herold’s eye
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Southern Indian Ocean and captured an image of a well-developed Tropical Cyclone Herold at hurricane...
