JSA names co-recipients of its 2017 Outstanding Nuclear Physicist Prize
Washington, DC - Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, announced today that Charles Perdrisat and Charles Sinclair are the recipients of the ...
When gold turns invisible
Credit: Seki T. et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society, May 2, 2017 A gold compound shifts from a ...
Bamboo inspires optimal design for lightness and toughness
Credit: Sato M., et al., PLOS ONE, May 3, 2017 The spatial distribution of fibers in hollow bamboo cylinders is ...
Take a look, and you’ll see, into your imagination
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Scanning your brain to decode the contents of your mind has been a subject ...
From terrestrial and marine bioresources and wastes to value-added products
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Spotting the invisible
(Umea University) Chemists at Umeå University in Sweden have succeeded in mapping structures and functions of a transient enzyme state. ...
Tea consumption leads to epigenetic changes in women
Epigenetic changes are chemical modifications that turn our genes off or on. In a new study from Uppsala University, researchers ...
Random numbers: Hard times ahead for hackers
Credit: © Thomas Le Provost Whenever we need to communicate in secret, a cryptographic key is needed. For this key ...
Nitrogen oxides emissions: Traffic dramatically underestimated as major polluter
Credit: Uni Innsbruck In metropolitan areas throughout Europe maximum permissible values of nitrogen oxide are consistently breached. It has been ...
CNIO presents an online tool to extract drug toxicity information from text
The Biological Text Mining Unit presents in a recent Nucleic Acids Research paper the LimTox online software tool developed at ...
Uber and Kazan University name Saint-Petersburg the most ‘taxi-abundant’ city in Russia
The two parties sampled 1,600 Uber users in Russia's five biggest cities - Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, and Yekaterinburg. The ...
PNG expedition discovers largest trees at extreme altitudes
Credit: Dr Michelle Venter The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds ...
Zinc may hold key to fighting liver disease
Credit: The Westmead Institute for Medical Research New research from the Westmead Institute's Storr Liver Centre in collaboration with the ...
Common acne medication offers new treatment for multiple sclerosis
A Canadian clinical trial led by researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the Cumming School ...
Health care process a roadblock for adolescents with autism and their caregivers
Credit: MU News Bureau COLUMBIA, Mo. - For most people, trips to the doctor can be quite scary. For adolescents ...
Supportive housing improves health of formerly homeless people with HIV/AIDS
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Ask Elizabeth Bowen about the intersection of homelessness and HIV/AIDS in the United States and she'll respond ...
Clinical trial investigates Alzheimer’s disease drug in people with Down syndrome
A phase 2 clinical trial in young adults with Down syndrome of a drug being investigated for the treatment of ...
Clinical trial shows experimental drug’s ability to knock down pancreatic cancer’s defense
Credit: Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service SEATTLE -- May 31, 2017 -- By adding an experimental drug to ...
Scientists ID 100 memory genes, open new avenues of brain study
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - May 31, 2017 - Scientists have identified more than 100 genes linked to memory, opening ...
Storytime a ‘turbocharger’ for a child’s brain
Credit: Cincinnati Children's While reading to children has many benefits, simply speaking the words aloud may not be enough to ...
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