Peptide reverses cardiac fibrosis in a preclinical model of congestive heart failure
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Cardiac fibrosis, an abnormal thickening of the heart wall leading to congestive heart failure, ...
Brightest neutron star yet has a multipolar magnetic field
Scientists have identified a neutron star that is consuming material so fast it emits more x-rays than any other. Its ...
Columbia University Professor among 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship Recipients
Credit: Sebastian Will An assistant professor at Columbia since 2016, Will's research interests include ultracold molecules and dipolar quantum gases, ...
NASA’s fermi finds possible dark matter ties in andromeda galaxy
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger, producer NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has found a signal at the center ...
In great shape
In 2015 UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer and materials scientist Jonathan Berger developed an idea that could change the way ...
Likelihood of dieting success lies within your tweets
There is a direct link between a person's attitude on social media and the likelihood that their dieting efforts will ...
Twitter researchers offer clues as to why Trump won
Credit: Wang and Luo Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang did not set out to predict who would win the 2016 ...
Using a rabbit virus to treat multiple myeloma
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Treating multiple myeloma (MM) with myxoma virus (MYXV) eliminated a majority of malignant cells ...
Counting sharks
Many shark populations around the world are known to have declined over the past several decades, yet marine scientists lack ...
Offshore wind push
Credit: Jeffrey Chase/University of Delaware Injecting large amounts of offshore wind power into the U.S. electrical grid is manageable, will ...
Anticipating the aroma of a chemical compound
Credit: Rockefeller University and IBM Research Data collected through a crowdsourcing competition demonstrates that it is possible to accurately predict ...
E-cigarettes popular among smokers with existing illnesses
Ann Arbor, MI, Feb. 21, 2017 - In the U.S. more than 16 million people with smoking-related illnesses continue to ...
NASA sees development of South Pacific’s Tropical Cyclone Bart
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Bart has developed in the Southern Pacific Ocean, and NASA's ...
UC Riverside gets $5.1 million to fight citrus killer
Credit: UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A team of scientists, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, ...
New design for longer lasting night-vision cameras
With the amazing ability to survey areas in complete darkness, night-vision cameras have revolutionized the security industry. But the materials ...
Over time, nuisance flooding can cost more than extreme, infrequent events
Credit: Jennie Brewton / UCI Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 - Global climate change is being felt in many coastal ...
Scientists unlock ability to generate new sensory hair cells
Boston, MA-- Hearing loss affects 360 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Inner ear sensory cells, called ...
New insights into the information processing of motor neurons
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience In a study published in Cell Reports in February 2017, Matt Rowan, Ph.D., ...
Model helps explain why some patients with multiple sclerosis have seizures
Credit: I. Pittalwala, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. - Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system ...
Children’s Mercy honored as recipient of the 2017 Microsoft Health Innovation Awards
Credit: Children's Mercy Kansas City KANSAS CITY, MO -- February 21, 2017 -- Children's Mercy Kansas City today announced it ...
