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Credit: Baylor College of Medicine The goal of cancer therapy is to destroy the tumor or stop it from growing ...

Asian dust providing key nutrients for California’s giant sequoias

Credit: Chelsea Carey RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Dust from as far away as the Gobi Desert in Asia is providing more ...

Study: Dust helps regulate Sierra Nevada ecosystems

Credit: UC Merced "Collecting dust" isn't usually considered a good thing. But dust from as near as the Central Valley ...

Zika virus protein mapped to speed search for cure

Credit: Cheng Kao, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study published today shows how Indiana University scientists are speeding the ...

Astronomers probe swirling particles in halo of starburst galaxy

Credit: Credits: A.D. Kapinska, G. Meurer. ICRAR/UWA/CAASTRO. Astronomers have used a radio telescope in outback Western Australia to see the ...

Using a method from Wall Street to track slow slipping of Earth’s crust

Stock traders have long used specialized trackers to decide when to buy or sell a stock, or when the market ...

Mouse in the house tells tale of human settlement

Credit: Photo by Lior Weissbrod. Long before the advent of agriculture, hunter-gatherers began putting down roots in the Middle East, ...

New NIFA study shows capacity funding is a valued investment to states

WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 27, 2017 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture ...

USDA announces $300,000 in funding available for youth farm safety

WASHINGTON, D.C. March 27, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture today announced ...

Psychologists enlist machine learning to help diagnose depression

Credit: David M Schnyer, Peter C. Clasen, Christopher Gonzalez and Christopher G. Beevers Depression affects more than 15 million American ...

Kent State chemists create microscopic environment to study cancer cell growth

Credit: Photo provided by Kent State University According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new ...

New finding could lead to earlier liver cancer diagnosis

Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In many parts of the world, including Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, exposure to a fungal product ...

Kessler Foundation renews collaboration with Children’s Specialized Hospital

Credit: Kessler Foundation March 27, East Hanover, NJ/New Brunswick, NJ--Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized ...

Researchers show p300 protein may suppress leukemia in MDS patients

Credit: The website of the National Cancer Institute (https://www.cancer.gov). MIAMI, March 27, 2017 - Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center ...

Renewable energy has robust future in much of Africa

Credit: UC Berkeley As Africa gears up for a tripling of electricity demand by 2030, a new Berkeley study maps ...

The economic case for wind and solar energy in Africa

Credit: Grace Wu/Berkeley Lab To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by ...

Researchers create artificial materials atom-by-atom

Credit: Ella Maru Studio & Aalto University Researchers at Aalto University have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties. By ...

Basic microbiology research study unexpectedly uncovers practical findings for growers

Credit: The American Phytopathological Soceity St. Paul, Minn. (March 2017)--Cover cropping, or the practice of growing unharvested crops to protect ...

Cookbooks give readers (mostly) bad advice on food safety

A recent study finds that bestselling cookbooks offer readers little useful advice about reducing food-safety risks, and that much of ...

Timing a space laser with a NASA-style stopwatch