Decision-making suffers when cancer patients avoid math
BOSTON - Many of the toughest decisions faced by cancer patients involve knowing how to use numbers -- calculating risks, ...
‘Tully monster’ mystery is far from solved, Penn-led group argues
Credit: John Megahan Last year, headlines in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Scientific American and other outlets declared that ...
Basking sharks seek out winter sun
Loading video... Credit: Philip Doherty The winter habits of Britain's basking sharks have been revealed for the first time. Scientists ...
Switched-on DNA
Credit: ASU DNA, the stuff of life, may very well also pack quite the jolt for engineers trying to advance ...
Many cancer survivors change their prescription drug use for financial reasons
A new analysis indicates that many cancer survivors change their prescription drug use (including skipping doses or requesting cheaper medications) ...
SWOG study shows strong long-term survival rates for patients with GIST
PORTLAND, OR - Nine years ago, SWOG researchers confirmed a new standard of care for patients with incurable gastrointestinal stromal ...
Researcher unveils tool for a cleaner long island sound
Credit: Jamie Vaudrey, UConn, 2016 A new model released today at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement ...
LIGO veteran to give talk about gravitational waves
Caltech's Stan Whitcomb, who has been involved with nearly every aspect of the development and ultimate success of the Laser ...
Stanford researcher to examine unsung hero of science: Assessment
Katharine Mach, who served as co-director of science on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will present her most ...
Marine ecologist offers suggestions for achieving a strong, lasting ‘blue economy’
BOSTON - Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the ...
GBSI reports encouraging progress toward improved research reproducibility by year 2020
Credit: GBSI WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 19, 2017 - One year after the Global Biological Standards Institute (GBSI) issued its Reproducibility2020 ...
Bringing evidence to health screening debates
Credit: Peter Goldberg for Brown University Questions about health screenings -- Whether to screen? How often? At what age? At ...
When screening for disease, risk is as important to consider as benefits, study indicates
Physicians and patients like to believe that early detection of cancer extends life, and quality of life. If a cancer ...
Bee decline threatens US crop production
Credit: PNAS The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country's most important farmlands ...
Gene sequences reveal secrets of symbiosis
Credit: © 2017 Tane Sinclair-Taylor Advances in genomic research are helping scientists to reveal how corals and algae cooperate to ...
Save the bees? There’s an app for that
Credit: UVM Let's say a farmer wanted to plant wildflowers to nurture the bumble bees that pollinate her crops. Currently, ...
Invitation: Global warming to cause dramatic changes in fisheries
New research from scientists and economists at the University of California Santa Barbara, Oregon State University and Environmental Defense Fund ...
Smart reforms key to global fish recovery, even with climate change
(BOSTON - February 18, 2017) New Research finds that climate change will cause dramatic impacts in the world's fisheries, but ...
Three-way dance between herbivores, plants and microbes unveiled
Credit: Gary Felton, Penn State What looks like a caterpillar chewing on a leaf or a beetle consuming fruit is ...
Maize study finds genes that help crops adapt to change
Over many thousands of years, farmers have bred maize varieties so the crops are optimally adapted to local environments. A ...
