Manolis Kogevinas wins John Goldsmith Award
ISGlobal researcher receives the highest honour in the field of Environmental Epidemiology for his vital contributions to public healthCredit: Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)...
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Sandwich catalysts offer higher activity and durability
Credit: In Su Lee (POSTECH) Sandwich is the food concocted by the 18th-ceuntry nobles to play card games uninterrupted. Meat or vegetables were layered then...
UT Austin selected as home of National AI Institute focused on machine learning
Credit: Vivian Abagiu/University of Texas at Austin. The National Science Foundation has selected The University of Texas at Austin to lead the NSF AI Institute...
Oncotarget: Paradox breaker BRAF inhibitors in BRAF mutant colorectal cancer
Oncotarget Volume 11, Issue 34 features Figure 1, "BRAF inhibitor-induced changes in cell viability," by Pickles, et which reported that the BEACON CRC trial demonstrated...
SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected in untreated wastewater from Louisiana
Credit: Masaaki Kitajima/Biorender A group of scientists have detected genetic material from SARS-CoV-2 in untreated wastewater samples collected in April 2020 from two wastewater treatment...
Domesticated chickens have smaller brains
Credit: Per Jensen Researchers from Linköping University suggest a process by which the timid junglefowl from the rain forest could have become today's domesticated chicken....
New device can measure toxic lead within minutes
Researchers create portable lab-on-a-chip that could detect many contaminantsCredit: Azam Gholizadeh Rutgers researchers have created a miniature device for measuring trace levels of toxic lead...
Seizures during menstrual cycle linked to drug-resistant epilepsy
Study finds surprising connection in some women with genetic generalized epilepsyCredit: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health More frequent seizures during the...
Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change
New study suggests fewer resources are depleting than previously estimated, but authors urge caution in unsustainable extraction levelsCredit: Mohammed Shamshudda/Richard Taylor Fewer of the world's...
Antagonistic genes modify rice plant growth
Credit: Motoyuki Ashikari Scientists at Nagoya University and colleagues in Japan have identified two antagonistic genes involved in rice plant stem growth. Their findings, published...
Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates
Tanpopo mission addresses the possibility of natural interplanetary transport of microbial life called panspermiaCredit: JAXA/NASA Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and...
Getting to the root of the problem
Credit: James Burridge Roots play a vital role in crop plants. They take up water and nutrients for the plant and keep it help firmly...
Coastal development, changing climate threaten sea turtle nesting habitat
Credit: Photo by Matthew Ware / Florida State University A research team led by Florida State University found that sea turtles in the U.S. will...
Cyberintimacy: Technology-mediated romance in the digital age
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, August 25, 2020--Digital technology has had a transformative effect on our romantic lives. This scoping review...
Thin layer protects battery, allows cold charging
Credit: Donghai Wang, Penn State In the search for a reliable, quick-charging, cold-weather battery for automobiles, a self-assembling, thin layer of electrochemically active molecules may...