Malaria parasite lives on the edge
Risky strategy prepares the parasite for the unexpected but could be exploited to fight the deadly diseaseCredit: Penn State The parasite that causes malaria expresses...
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Bats in Northeast India carry filoviruses that can infect humans
Credit: Dr Zavei Hiese Researchers have proposed that bats are the natural reservoir of filoviruses, including highly fatal Ebola and Marbug viruses. Now, researchers report...
Measles virus infection destroys immune system memory
Credit: G. Xu et al./Science 2015 Measles is more harmful than scientists once suspected. An analysis of blood from 77 unvaccinated children before and after...
UCF researchers discover mechanisms for the cause of the Big Bang
Knowing the criteria behind the Big Bang explosion will be key for models scientists use to understand the origin of the universeCredit: Karen Norum, UCF...
Lehigh University art galleries receives institute of museum and library services grant
Lehigh University's art museum is among 18 US institutions to receive prestigious grant from IMLS, the primary source of federal support for the nation's libraries...
Unlocking the black box of embryonic development
International collaboration improves method for culturing primate embryos to learn more about human developmentCredit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming University of Science and Technology LA JOLLA--(October 31, 2019)...
NASA sees development of Tropical Storm Maha at southwestern India Coast
Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview Tropical Storm Maha has developed near the coastline of southwestern India and NASA's Terra satellite provided forecasters with a visible image...
Movement and flow: Simulating complexity of fluids and strands in the virtual world
New method to be presented at SIGGRAPH AsiaCredit: ACM SIGGRAPH Asia Simulating the physics behind the movement of liquids and how fluids--thick or thin--interact with...
NASA microgap-cooling technology immune to gravity effects and ready for spaceflight
Credit: NASA/Franklin Robinson A groundbreaking technology that would allow NASA to effectively cool tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight gear is unaffected by weightlessness,...
NASA finds small area of heavy rain left in Tropical Cyclone Kyarr
Credit: Credit: NASA/JAXA/NRL Tropical Cyclone Kyarr appears to be winding down as it moves through the Arabian Sea and NASA provided forecasters with an analysis...
Training in mental ill-health a determinant of managers’ preventive actions
Credit: Photo by Cecilia Hedstrom Managers who have received training in mental health issues, and whose workplaces run general information campaigns on mental health, are...
Dynamic transition of the blood-brain barrier in the development of non-small cell lung cancer brain
The cover for issue 59 of Oncotarget features Figure 9, 'A schematic representation of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), brain around tumor region (BAT) and blood-tumor...
WFIRST will add pieces to the dark matter puzzle
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) The true nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries in the...
Zoo animal research skewed towards ‘popular’ species
Credit: Paul Rose Research on zoo animals focuses more on "familiar" species like gorillas and chimpanzees than less well known ones like the waxy monkey...
Evading Heisenberg isn’t easy
Credit: I. Shomroni, EPFL. The limits of classical measurements of mechanical motion have been pushed beyond expectations in recent years, e.g. in the first direct...
