University of Minnesota Sea Grant director John A. Downing named 2019 AAAS Fellow
Credit: UMN Duluth/Brett Groehler DULUTH, Minn. -- The University of Minnesota Sea Grant program is proud to announce that Director John A. Downing has been...
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We love coffee, tea, chocolate and soft drinks so much, caffeine is literally in our blood
Credit: Photo by Steven Ward, OSU Extension and Experiment Station Communications. CORVALLIS, Ore. - Scientists at Oregon State University may have proven how much people...
Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death
Credit: NIAID WHAT: Scientists have determined that La Crosse virus (LACV), which can cause inflammation of the brain, or encephalitis, in children, affects brain cells...
Therapeutic inhibition of Mcl-1 blocks cell survival in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers
While estrogen receptor - + breast cancers express high levels of three anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, pharmacological inhibition of Bcl-2 and/or Bcl-xL fails to induce...
Using fungi to search for medical drugs
Credit: Jelmer Hoeksma, © Hubrecht Institute An enormous library of products derived from more than ten thousand fungi could help us find new drugs. Researchers...
Fire ants’ raft building skills react as fluid forces change
Scientists explore how fire ants build rafts to adapt in a very wet environmentCredit: Hungtang Ko SEATTLE, November 26, 2019 -- Fire ants build living...
UK science engineering company ready to take Purdue heating technology to the market
Credit: Alconbury Weston Limited WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A novel heating technology based on materials commonly used in the aerospace industry soon may be helping...
MS linked to variant of common herpes virus through new method
Credit: Karolinska Institutet Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have developed a new method to separate between two different types of a common herpes virus (HHV-6) that...
Lehigh University nuclear fusion plasma control expert pursuing global energy goal
Two recently awarded DOE grants fund the work of Eugenio Schuster, who is leading research teams at existing tokamaks that will help advance international efforts...
Nuclear reactors with a newly proposed barrier could’ve withstood Chernobyl and Fukushima
Credit: Country of Rosatom In the aftermath of the notorious accidents in the history of nuclear energy at Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) and...
NASA spots first tropical cyclone of Southern Pacific season
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL The tropical cyclone season in the Southern Pacific Ocean has kicked off with Tropical Cyclone Rita, and NASA's Aqua satellite passed over...
16-million-year-old fossil shows springtails hitchhiking on winged termite
Credit: N. Robin, C. D'Haese and P. Barden When trying to better the odds for survival, a major dilemma that many animals face is dispersal...
FAU receives $1.3 million grant from Florida Division Of Emergency Management
FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science and FDEM project will create framework for flood risk managementCredit: Florida Atlantic University Researchers from Florida Atlantic University's...
Hops compounds help with metabolic syndrome while reducing microbiome diversity
Credit: (Photo courtesy of Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Compounds from hops may combat metabolic syndrome by changing the gut microbiome and altering the...
Researchers reach milestone in quantum standardization
Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to establishing universal standards for measuring...
