How crop load density affects apple juice, hard cider quality
Credit: Photo courtesy of Gregory Peck. ITHACA, NY - Hard cider, an alcoholic beverage produced from fermented apple juice or ...
Survey of New York City soil uncovers medicine-making microbes
Credit: Zach Veilleux/The Rockefeller University Microbes have long been an invaluable source of new drugs. And to find more, we ...
Researchers propose low-mass supernova triggered formation of solar system
A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and ...
Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- It's a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212 ...
Aircraft inspectors have new Sandia course to help detect composite material damage
Credit: Dennis Roach, Sandia National Laboratories ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- As manufacturers build more wings, fuselages and other major commercial aircraft ...
Taste bud maintenance in mice requires Hedgehog signaling
Credit: Charlotte M. Mistretta and colleagues. Disruptions in the Hedgehog signaling pathway can interfere with taste bud maintenance in mice, ...
Many primary care doctors are reluctant to talk about medical errors, study finds
Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--While most primary care physicians would provide some information about a medical error, only a minority ...
UT professor develops algorithm to improve online mapping of disaster areas
Credit: Yingjie Hu KNOXVILLE--When an 8-magnitude earthquake struck Yingjie Hu's home province of Sichuan, China, in 2008, he was more ...
It takes less than a second to tell humans from androids
It can be hard to tell the difference between humans and androids in such sci-fi TV shows as "Westworld." But ...
DOE funds advanced manufacturing of superconductor wire for next generation machines
Credit: University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering With their potential for big savings through increased energy efficiency and reduced ...
Study reveals lack of supporting evidence for claims about fertility treatments
Many claims made by UK fertility clinics about the benefits of treatments beyond standard IVF procedures are not backed up ...
Rockefeller University’s Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., named 2016 Vanderbilt Prize recipient
Credit: Mario Morgado/The Rockefeller University. Elaine Fuchs, Ph.D., whose innovative use of reverse genetics has helped redefine the study of ...
NIAID-sponsored study to assess shorter-duration antibiotics in children
Physicians at five U.S. medical centers are planning to enroll up to 400 children in a clinical trial to evaluate ...
Bullying rates remain higher for children with disabilities, even as they mature
COLUMBIA, Mo. - More than 22 percent of children ages 12-18 say they have been bullied in school within the ...
Iraq-Afghanistan veterans with epilepsy more at risk of death
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, USA -- U.S. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans (IAVs) with epilepsy were more than twice as likely ...
Stem cells police themselves to reduce scarring, Stanford study finds
Treating mice with a compound that increases the expression of an inactive protein helped them heal from injury with less ...
Study says CT use OK for some colon cancers, yet challenging for lymph node involvement
Leesburg, VA, Nov. 23, 2016 -- CT has good sensitivity for the detection of colon cancers with tumors that have ...
RIT professor wins grants from the Moore Foundation
Rochester Institute of Technology professor Moumita Das has won seed funding for cutting-edge research that explores mitochondrial DNA and intercellular ...
Warwick and Waitrose tackle global food security together
Food security is at the heart of a new doctoral training collaboration between the University of Warwick and Waitrose, thanks ...
ADSA announces 2017 annual meeting symposia and workshops
Thanks to the hard work of the ADSA members who submitted proposals, the program committee chairs, and the chairs of ...
