NASA-NOAA satellite observes development of Tropical Storm Octave
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided infrared data that showed the development of Tropical Storm Octave in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Octave formed...
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NIH funds new All of Us Research Program genome center to test advanced sequencing tools
HudsonAlpha awarded $7 million to expand national health dataset with uncharted genetic variantsCredit: Photo courtesy of the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. The All of Us...
Deep learning method that transforms shapes to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia
Turning chairs into tablesCredit: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 Turning a chair into a table, or vice versa, might sound like somewhat of a magic trick....
Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Research Award 2019 goes to Serena Nik-Zainal
Bioinformatician receives Swiss 'nobel prize for cancer research'Credit: Courtesy of Serena Nik-Zainal. Today, the Dr. Josef Steiner Cancer Foundation, which is comprised of physiologists from...
Potato as effective as carbohydrate gels for boosting athletic performance, study finds
Credit: Graphic by Michael B. Vincent CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Consuming potato puree during prolonged exercise works just as well as a commercial carbohydrate gel in...
Dr. Denis Mukwege honorary doctor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Credit: Photo: Johan Wingborg, University of Gothenburg Dr. Denis Mukwege, a 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner, has received a prestigious award: an honorary doctorate at...
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problem
Credit: Tokyo Tech Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations in many types of devices....
Candidate Ebola vaccine still effective when highly diluted, macaque study finds
Scientists hope findings mean vaccine supplies could stretch fartherCredit: NIAID WHAT: A single dose of a highly diluted VSV-Ebola virus (EBOV) vaccine--approximately one-millionth of what...
A new stable form of plutonium discovered at the ESRF
Credit: Kristina Kvashnina An international team of scientists, led by the Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), have found a new compound of plutonium with an unexpected,...
This blacksmith forged a sword using chemistry (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2019 -- This week on Reactions, we head to Portland, Oregon, and learn how blacksmithing is just...
Lifestyle is a threat to gut bacteria: Ötzi proves it
A study that was published today in Cell Host & Microbe explored for the first time the variation and evolution of Prevotella copri, a common...
All plastic waste could become new, high-quality plastic through advanced steam cracking
Credit: Illustration: Boid A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a...
Ugandans and Kenyans in cities happy to pay for food that is more nutritious
Malnutrition remains a serious problem for many people in East Africa; poor consumers are willing to pay a premium for healthier foods, pointing to a...
Genes linked to sex ratio and male fertility in mice
Michigan Medicine researchers find genes that help maintain the 50-50 balance between male and female offspringCredit: Leila Mullison, University of Michigan Stamps School of Art...
Bean tree plan to protect Amazon
Credit: Toby Pennington Amazon deforestation could be slowed by planting bean trees that would keep soils fertile and help smallholders make a living. Rainforest soils...
