Announcing 2018 Glenn Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships in Aging Research
NEW YORK, NY and SANTA BARBARA, CA -- The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) and the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research are pleased to...
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Dissecting digital cadavers
Credit: University of Houston With the click of a button, Vivien Coulson-Thomas removes the cadaver's skin. Another click and she removes muscle to reveal her...
Announcing 2018 Irene Diamond Fund/AFAR Postdoctoral Transition Awards in Aging
NEW YORK, NY--The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR), with support from the Irene Diamond Fund, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2018...
Watching nanoparticles
Credit: Michal Vadai When Michal Vadai's experiment worked for the first time, she jumped out of her seat. Vadai, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University,...
Levitating particles could lift nuclear detective work
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory photo. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Nov. 7, 2018--Laser-based 'optical tweezers' could levitate uranium and plutonium particles, thus allowing the measurement of...
US Advanced Battery Consortium funds extension of lithium-ion battery recycling process
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - With a $1.08 million contract award from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization...
Batteryless smart devices closer to reality
Credit: University of Waterloo Researchers at the University of Waterloo have taken a huge step towards making smart devices that do not use batteries or...
Exhaustive analysis reveals cell division’s inner timing mechanisms
Credit: Mattosaurus via wikimeida, public domain Understanding how and when cells divide is important to figuring out everything from how cancers grow to why some...
Stroke of genius: Drug could target leading cause in young
Credit: The Centenary Institute A study led by researchers at the Centenary Institute has identified a drug currently used to treat cancer patients, as a...
Researchers capture in-action images of photosynthetic protein complex splitting water
Credit: Jan Kern, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory In a new article published in Nature an international research team presents high-resolution images of photosystem II, the...
After a bad winter in the ocean, female Magellanic penguins suffer most, study shows
(University of Washington) Research from the University of Washington is showing how Magellanic penguins fare during the winter months when they spend months at sea...
Goldilocks and the optimal mating distance: Neither too small nor too large but just right
ANN ARBOR--Evolutionary theory predicts that the fitness of an individual is maximized when the genetic differences between its parents are neither too small nor too...
Save wildlife? Researchers use geology to track elusive animals
Credit: Joseph Fuqua II/UC Creative Services Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are perfecting an innovative way to track the migration of elusive wildlife to...
Machine-learning algorithm predicts how cells repair broken DNA
The human genome has its own proofreaders and editors, and their handiwork is not as haphazard as once thought. When DNA's double helix is broken...
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Alcide reach hurricane strength
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite provided a visible image of a more organized Tropical Cyclone Alcide...
