Frontline heroes hailed in the war against devil cancers
Residents of Tasmania's D'Entrecasteaux Channel Peninsula, Kingborough and Huon Valley communities are being hailed as the frontline heroes in the war against two deadly transmissible...
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Factors orthopaedic surgeons should consider when prescribing opioids
Orthopaedic surgeons are the third-highest physician prescribers of opioids, writing more than 6 million prescriptions a year. Because over-dispensing of opioids is a factor contributing...
FAU receives $1.5 million to train veteran nursing students to care for other veterans
Project funded by HRSA will serve veterans in rural, underserved communitiesCredit: Florida Atlantic University Florida is home to approximately 1.5 million military veterans and has...
Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists announces 2019 National Laureates
An ecologist from Stony Brook University, a theoretical physicist from University of Colorado Boulder and a chemical biologist from Harvard University Three female scientists have...
Natural ingredients in supplements, nutraceuticals get a new type of barcode
Increasingly, shoppers are choosing nutraceuticals, cosmetics and herbal remedies with natural ingredients, and these products are readily available in many drug stores and supermarkets. But...
Making music from proteins (video)
Credit: Video Credit - American Chemical Society Composers string notes of different pitch and duration together to create music. Similarly, cells join amino acids with...
Translating proteins into music, and back
By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and create new variationsCredit: Zhao Qin and Francisco Martin-Martinez Want to create a...
Researchers discover more than 50 lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
Researchers have discovered 56 previously uncharted subglacial lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet bringing the total known number of lakes to 60Credit: Winnie Chu, Stanford...
Snails show that variety is the key to success if you want to remember more
A change is as good as a rest when it comes to remembering more, according to new research by neuroscientists at the University of Sussex....
New unprinting method can help recycle paper and curb environmental costs
Rutgers-led study shows the benefits of removing toner with pulses of intense xenon lightCredit: Rajiv Malhotra/Rutgers University-New Brunswick Imagine if your printer had an "unprint"...
Organic farming enhances honeybee colony performance
Bees are valuable to humans not only because they produce honey, but also because they pollinate wildflowers and food crops. They exclusively eat nectar and...
Binge watching TV increases heart health risks more than a desk job among African Americans
Journal of the American Heart Association report DALLAS, June 26, 2019 -- Binge watching TV may be a greater risk factor for heart disease and...
Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children
Interacting with a robotic teddy bear invented at MIT boosted young patients' positive emotions, engagement, and activity level A new study demonstrates, for the first...
Environmental destruction linked to African population raises questions about family sizes
Credit: Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project Africa is projected to be home to nearly 3 billion people by 2100, but rapid population growth will cause widespread...
Your Favorite Home Cook Needs One of These Fun Gifts
Intro text we refine our methods of responsive web design, we’ve increasingly focused on measure and its relationship to how people read. A wonderful serenity...