Hawaii’s newest species named in honor of President Obama
Credit: Brian Skerry / National Geographic Today, scientists from the Bishop Museum, NOAA, and the Association for Marine Exploration published ...
Biomarker for oxidative stress plays a major role in hepatic inflammation
Credit: CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Diet-related diseases like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ...
The luxury of causality: Parallel Intelligence, a proposed move toward the intelligent future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning - from the real world. Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world's ...
ANU helps find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way
Credit: Supplied by the research team The Australian National University (ANU) is part of an international team of astronomers that ...
Epigenetic changes promoting cancer metastasis identified
Latest research from New Zealand's University of Otago is shedding new light on why and how cancer cells spread from ...
Calculating 1 billion plasma particles in a supercomputer
Credit: Dr. Hiroki Hasegawa Background to the Research The generation of fusion energy utilizes the fusion reaction that occurs inside ...
FASEB announces new database of research organism providers
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched a new tool to help biomedical and life science investigators ...
High-severity wildfires complicate natural regeneration for California conifers
Credit: Hugh Safford/USDA Forest Service A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer ...
Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes multiple diseases
Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient's breath. Scientists have been working ...
Flame retardant exposure linked to income, BMI and household smoking
A class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been phased out of production in the U.S. ...
First light for band 5 at ALMA
The compound view shows a new ALMA Band 5 view of the colliding galaxy system Arp 220 (in red) on ...
RNA pathway plays key role in health, lifespan, fly study shows
Credit: Brian Jones/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Humans and other animals carry rogue sequences of DNA in their genomes called ...
Threading the RSV vaccine needle
Credit: Stobart et al Nature Communications (2016). Crafting a vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) has been a minefield for ...
Novel technique helps ID elusive molecules
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Among the most important molecules in the living world are sugars or ...
‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers
Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers ...
Heart valves strive to get oxygen one way or another
Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University HOUSTON - (Dec. 20, 2016) - As the valves in a heart stretch with each beat, ...
New material with ferroelectricity and ferromagnetism may lead to better computer memory
Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology Traditional computer memory, known as DRAM, uses electric fields to store information. In DRAM, the ...
The evolutionary secret of H. pylori to survive in the stomach
Professor Frédéric Veyrier's most recent research, in collaboration with the team of Professor Hilde De Reuse at the Institut Pasteur, ...
Arctic Inuit, Native American cold adaptations may originate from extinct hominids
In the Arctic, the Inuits have adapted to severe cold and a predominantly seafood diet. After the first population genomic ...
Magnifying time reveals fundamental rogue wave instabilities of nature
Credit: Benjamin Wetzel Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies ...
