Study: Tradeoffs between commute time, safety
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Urban commuters may be less likely to encounter automobile accidents if they are willing to increase...
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New drug-delivery technology promises efficient, targeted cancer treatment
Credit: Photo by PNNL PULLMAN, Wash. -- A precise and non-toxic treatment that targets lung cancer cells at the nanoscale is able to effectively kill...
NASA finds heavy rain potential in typhoon Bualoi over Marianas
Credit: Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson Typhoon Bualoi was lashing the Marianas Islands in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and analyzed...
Los Alamos AI model wins flu forecasting challenge
'Dante' beat 23 others in predicting the timing, peak, and short-term intensity of the unfolding 2018-2019 flu season. Enhanced version takes aim at 2019-2020.Credit: Los...
Pushy robots learn the fundamentals of object manipulation
Systems 'learn' from novel dataset that captures how pushed objects move, to improve their physical interactions with new objectsCredit: Image courtesy of Maria Bauza, Ferran...
NASA imagery reveals Neoguri now extra-tropical
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Formerly a typhoon, now an extra-tropical storm, Neoguri has taken on more of...
IQSEC1 gene mutations cause new intellectual disability syndrome
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine It used to take several years or sometimes decades to unequivocally identify the genes that cause rare human syndromes that...
New organelle that helps prevent cancer discovered in our cells
Could lead to better treatments, spare patients ones that won't workCredit: Dan Addison | UVA Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have...
Q-suite motor assessment tool promising for evaluating Huntington’s disease
Having a test to measure subtle changes in motor ability in young childrenCredit: National Institute of Neurological Disorders Amsterdam, NL, October 22, 2019 - In...
Regenstrief and IUPUI researchers use EHRs to identify cancer symptom clusters
Award-winning methodology applicable to symptom clusters in other chronic diseasesCredit: Regenstrief Institute INDIANAPOLIS - Patients with chronic diseases such as breast cancer or colorectal cancer...
Svetlana Jitomirskaya wins 2020 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
The award recognizes outstanding publications in the field of mathematical physicsCredit: Svetlana Jitomirskaya WASHINGTON, D.C., October 22, 2019 -- The American Institute of Physics and...
Wistar Institute researcher awarded American Cancer Society research professorship
Credit: The Wistar Institute PRINCETON, N.J. -- PHILADELPHIA -- (Oct. 22, 2019) -- The American Cancer Society (ACS), the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of...
Theorist takes aim at the makeup of matter
As the Nathan Isgur Postdoctoral Fellow in Nuclear Theory, Nobuo Sato will apply theory to experimental data to ask how quarks and gluons form all...
Scientists discover link between unique brain cells and OCD and anxiety
Mice with dysfunctional microglia exhibited OCD behaviors, and female sex hormones drove symptom severity and added anxietyCredit: Dimitri Traenkner According to the National Institute of...
Single mutation dramatically changes structure and function of bacteria’s transporter proteins
Study of E. coli bacteria may provide clues about drug resistanceCredit: Nathaniel Traaseth and Ampon Sae Her (CC BY 4.0) Swapping a single amino acid...
