Understanding endometriosis
About 10 percent of women worldwide suffer from endometriosis, a painful and debilitating disease with inadequate treatments. Currently, doctors don't know what causes the condition,...
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Monitoring air pollution after Hurricane Maria
When Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, the storm devastated the island's electrical grid, leaving many people without power for months. This...
Ground-breaking geneticist, Trudy Mackay, to receive prestigious Dawson Prize
Ground-breaking US geneticist, Trudy Mackay, will tomorrow (Thursday November 1) be honoured with the prestigious 2018 Dawson Prize in Genetics in Trinity College Dublin. Trudy...
Trading sex for sleep — Aging dormice shorten their hibernation for more reproduction
Credit: ©Jessica Cornils/Vetmeduni Vienna Edible dormice are extremely long-lived for their size thanks to their seasonal dormancy. The animals are veritable record holders in this...
Oxygen levels impact on species’ ability and willingness to fight
Credit: Fabian Rudin/University of Plymouth Environmental conditions could play a major role in the instigation of fights within the animal kingdom, according to new research....
Neonatal birthweights increase in direct proportion to number of births
A new Tel Aviv University study finds that neonatal birthweights increase in direct proportion with the number of births of the mother in at least...
CNIO finds the origin of a type of thrombocytopenia caused by an oncogene
Credit: CNIO The Cell Division and Cancer Group of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has discovered that MASTL, the protein whose function in...
Springer launches interdisciplinary portal on urban studies
To meet the changing needs of the research community, Springer has significantly expanded its urban studies publication programme and set up a specially dedicated urban...
In-situ electron microscopy workshop
Participants shall learn about new capabilities for cutting-edge in-situ electron microscopy in liquid, gas and vacuum environments. Recent results and publications of leading researchers with...
Eco-friendly waterproof polymer films synthesized using novel method
Credit: World Scientific In a paper published in NANO, a researcher from the Department of Chemistry at Myongji University has applied a novel method to...
Ultrasensitive toxic gas detector
Credit: Author In a paper published in NANO, researchers from the School of Microelectronics in Tianjin University have discovered a two-step sputtering and subsequent annealing...
Machine learning improves accuracy of particle identification at LHC
Scientists from the Higher School of Economics have developed a method that allows physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to separate between various types...
Bose-Einstein condensate generated in space for the first time
Credit: photo/©: Thomas Schleuss, DLR A team of scientists from Germany has succeeded in creating a Bose-Einstein condensate for the first time in space on...
Morris Animal Foundation-funded researchers protect Ridgeway’s hawks from botflies
Eggs hatching. Larvae burrowing under the skin and feeding on surrounding tissue. It's like a scene from a horror movie. Only this isn't a movie...
China develops world’s first instrument system for raman-activated cell sorting and sequencing
The world's first instrument system for Raman-activated Cell Sorting and Sequencing (RACS-SEQ) was recently developed in East China's Qingdao City, allowing functional identification, sortin..
