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Credit: US Environmental Protection Agency Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- including fracking for shale gas -- at a ...

Forests worldwide threatened by drought

Credit: University of Stirling Forests around the world are at risk of death due to widespread drought, University of Stirling ...

Neural networks promise sharpest ever images

Credit: K. Schawinski / C. Zhang / ETH Zurich. Telescopes, the workhorse instruments of astronomy, are limited by the size ...

New approach to reduce risk of developing type 2 diabetes trialled in Liverpool

An international clinical trial conducted by the University of Liverpool has shown that the drug liraglutide 3.0 mg may reduce ...

Average distance to a forest increased by almost 14 percent in the continental US in a decade

Credit: Yang S, Mountrakis G (2017) During the 1990s, in the continental US key connecting forest patches have been lost ...

In rare disorder, novel agent stops swelling before it starts

Credit: Mount Sinai Health System An early-stage clinical trial has found that, compared to a placebo, a novel medication significantly ...

Organ-on-a-chip mimics heart’s biomechanical properties

Loading video... Credit: Veniamin Sidorov VIIBRE Vanderbilt The human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. ...

The value of nutrition and exercise, according to a moth

Credit: National Science Foundation Quick! Name the top-performing athletes in the animal kingdom. Cheetah? Try again. Blue whale? Nope. Here's ...

New research horizons

Two UC Santa Barbara faculty members -- cryptographer Stefano Tessaro and condensed matter physicist Andrea Young -- have been selected ...

Average distance to a forest increased by almost 14% in the continental US in a decade

Credit: Yang S, Mountrakis G (2017) During the 1990s, in the continental US key connecting forest patches have been lost ...

How do polar bears respond to climate change, subsistence hunting?

Credit: Kristin Laidre/University of Washington UW's Kristin Laidre awarded Pew marine fellowship to study effects of climate change, subsistence hunting ...

Incarceration linked to excess burden of cancer, new study finds

Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2017 -- People who spend time in jails and prisons are ...

Serendipity uncovers borophene’s potential

Credit: Mark C. Hersam Almost one year ago, borophene didn't even exist. Now, just months after a Northwestern University and ...

Cameras can steal data from computer hard drive LED lights — Ben-Gurion U. study

BEER-SHEVA, Israel...Feb. 22, 2017 - Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have demonstrated ...

Tiny fibers open new windows into the brain

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For the first time ever, a single flexible fiber no bigger than a human hair has successfully ...

Nature study suggests new therapy for Gaucher disease

CINCINNATI - Scientists propose in Nature blocking a molecule that drives inflammation and organ damage in Gaucher and maybe other ...

Measuring patients’ muscles to predict chemotherapy side effects

Chemotherapy has long been standard treatment for many cancers, but its clinical benefits can also come with well-documented side effects. ...

Researchers aim to disrupt egg production in dengue- and Zika-spreading mosquito

Credit: USDA RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can spread dengue fever, chikungunya, Zika fever, and yellow fever ...

NASA spies Tropical Cyclone 08P’s formation

Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite spotted Tropical Cyclone 08P as it was developing in ...

Scientists decipher the nanoscale architecture of a beetle’s shell