Facial bones of black adults age differently than other races, Rutgers study finds
Study has implications for cosmetic surgery, which black individuals seek twice as often as whites Facial bones in black adults maintain higher mineral density as...
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WVU study: Diabetics exposed to common household chemicals have lower heart disease rates
Credit: WVU MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Chemicals found in nonstick cookware, cleaning products and paint may help lead to new treatments for heart disease in diabetic adults, according...
Limiting warming to 2 degrees C will require emission cuts across entire food system
Feeding 10 billion people and keeping Earth from overheating this century require not only major changes to agriculture, but transformation of the entire food system,...
Deep learning techniques teach neural model to ‘play’ retrosynthesis
Columbia chemical engineers train a neural network model to plan synthetic routes to any target molecule, optimizing user-specified objectives such as cost, time, and sustainabilityCredit:...
NASA-NOAA satellite sees system 91L’s eeach into the western gulf of Mexico
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) System 91L is an area of tropical low pressure located in the Bay of...
Mount Sinai scientist awarded $8 million for research on environmental factors on health
(New York, NY - June 4, 2019) -- A theory that proposes the existence of a dynamic interface between the environment and human physiology over...
Solving the sun’s super-heating mystery with Parker Solar Probe
Credit: Michigan Engineering ANN ARBOR--It's one of the greatest and longest-running mysteries surrounding, quite literally, our sun--why is its outer atmosphere hotter than its fiery...
No increased risk of birth defects in children of fathers treated for testicular cancer
New research has found no increased risk of congenital malformations associated with treatment with radiotherapy or chemotherapy in children of fathers with testicular cancer. The...
Kessler Foundation awarded six grants by New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research
Researchers received six grants totaling nearly $2.0 million to investigate novel ways to improve quality of life for individuals with traumatic brain injury and their...
Bats have an ambulance in their ears
Credit: Virginia Tech Anybody who has been passed by an ambulance at high speed has experienced a physical effect called the Doppler shift: As the...
For Latinos with diabetes, new study looks at ways to improve medication adherence
Certain lifestyle changes and low-cost interventions may improve how patients manage their medication regimenCredit: Ricardo Carrasco III LOS ANGELES -- Latino adults have higher diabetes...
Should STEMI patients recover in the ICU?
Credit: Michigan Medicine A trip to an intensive care unit can be more than twice as costly as a stay in a non-ICU hospital room,...
Snout dated: Slow-evolving elephant shark offers new insights into human physiology
Using different steroid hormones to activate a hormone receptor in a cartilaginous fish provides insights into origins and later evolution of crucial mechanism for survival...
Facilities, feedback and funding: Network supports medical research in Kentucky
KBRIN adding electron microscopy resource for early-stage researchersCredit: Amber Onorato LOUISVILLE, Ky. - For nearly two decades, a program administered at the University of Louisville...
New DOE program connects fusion companies with national labs, taps ORNL to lead
Credit: Carlos Jones/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy The Department of Energy has established the Innovation Network for Fusion Energy program, or INFUSE,...
