Research brief: Climate change is already affecting global food production — unequally
The world's top 10 crops -- barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat -- supply a combined 83 percent of...
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Astrocytes protect neurons from toxic buildup
Astrocytes are overtaxed neurons' pit crew. The brain cells collect damaged lipids secreted by hyperactive neurons, then recycle those toxic molecules into energy, researchers at...
Physicists create stable, strongly magnetized plasma jet in laboratory
Credit: Elle Starkman When you peer into the night sky, much of what you see is plasma, a soupy amalgam of ultra-hot atomic particles. Studying...
Boston College chemist Jia Niu named 2019 Beckman Young Investigator
Honor from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation awards early-career chemist $600,000 for polymer researchCredit: Lee Pellegrini / Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. (5/31/2019) - Boston...
Finding a needle in a haystack: Discovery of Ti 2 InB 2 for synthesizing layered TiB
Credit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) managed to use boron as the X element in a family of materials called...
Breaking the symmetry in the quantum realm
Credit: images created by Guoyan Wang & Lei Chen For the first time, researchers have observed a break in a single quantum system. The observation--and...
ASCO: Finally, a tool to predict response to chemotherapy before bladder cancer surgery
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center University of Colorado Cancer Center led clinical trial data show that a predictive tool called COXEN may show which...
Colloidal gel properties under the microscope
Tokyo, Japan - The term colloidal gel might not be one that is immediately familiar to everybody. However, most people come into contact with these...
RIT researchers receive NSF award to develop new diagnostic tool for cardiac disease
Non-invasive method increases likelihood of correctly identifying areas of deteriorating heart function Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are providing a better map to the...
Prescription drug costs steadily soar, yet price transparency is lacking
Scripps Research analyzed pharmacy insurance claims from over 35 million Americans, finding 'continual, marked, annual increases' of popular brand-name drugs, with price jumps often timed...
A new way to predict complications after larynx cancer surgery
When the surgical wound doesn't heal right, it can send some patients back to the OR; a new technique tested at U-M could help identify...
Community impacts from extreme weather shape climate beliefs
New study finds that how our community or neighborhood fares in an extreme storm or flood may have a stronger, more lasting effect on climate...
Native plant species may be at greater risk from climate change than non-natives
Credit: Kellogg Biological Station Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Michigan State University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- As spring advances across the Midwest, a new study looking...
Occupational hazards account for more than one in ten people with range of lung diseases
Credit: ATS June 1, 2019--More than 1 in 10 people with a range of non-cancerous lung diseases may be sick as a result of inhaling...
Chasing species’ ‘intactness’
Credit: Rob Wallace/WCS In an effort to better protect the world's last ecologically intact ecosystems, researchers developed a new metric called "The Last of the...
