New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvest
URBANA, Ill. - Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland and is a key export...
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Tomato pan-genome makes bringing flavor back easier
Nearly 5,000 new tomato genes mappedCredit: Agricultural Research Service-USDA ITHACA, NEW YORK, May 13, 2019--Almost everyone agrees that store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor. Now,...
How to starve triple negative breast cancer
Credit: Douglas Adamoski/Brazilian Biosciences National Laboratory A team of Brazilian researchers has developed a strategy that slows the growth of triple negative breast cancer cells...
Texting while driving common among millennial, older parents
Bottom Line: A distracted driving survey of millennial parents (ages 22 to 37) and older parents (37 and up) shows that most parents had read...
Just like toothpaste: fluoride radically improves the stability of perovskite solar cells
Credit: Eindhoven University of Technology Solar cells made of perovskite hold much promise for the future of solar energy. The material is cheap, easy to...
Reviews highlight new advances in our understanding of focal and sclerotic bone diseases
Providing expert insights on the pathogenesis and management of rare skeletal diseases such as fibrous dysplasia, Fibrogenesis Imperfecta Ossium, Melorheostosis, Osteopoikilosis, Camurati-Engelmann disease, osteomyelitis and...
Software library to serve for faster chemical reaction processing
A new tool has been proposed by Kazan University chemoinformatics lab Big Data has become ubiquitous in recent years, and especially so in disciplines with...
Preventing cell death as novel therapeutic strategy for rheumatoid arthritis
A collaborative study by research groups from the University of Cologne, VIB, Ghent University, the Î’iomedical Sciences Research Center 'Alexander Fleming' in Athens and the...
Physicists discover new type of spin waves
This could help create innovative concepts for future IT applications Current technologies for information transfer and processing are challenged by fundamental physical limits. The more...
Political controversies about marginalized groups increase bullying in youths
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that heated political discourse over proposed laws involving marginalized groups, such as debates about the rights of LGBT people, can...
Stopping inflammation in its tracks: A leap forward for new anti-inflammatory drugs
Credit: University of Queensland Treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases are one step closer as University of Queensland researchers discover a way to stop inflammation in...
Autophagy in dendritic cells helps anticancer activity
Credit: KAIST Autophagy contributes to the homeostasis of a cell and recently another function of autophagy has been reported. A KAIST research team found that...
Study: Glassy menagerie of particles in beach sands near Hiroshima is fallout debris
X-ray studies at Berkeley Lab provide evidence for source of exotic assortment of melt debrisCredit: Mario Wannier Mario Wannier, a career geologist with expertise in...
Bone cells suppress cancer metastases
A subpopulation of bone cells releases factors that can halt the growth of breast cancer that's traveled to the bone, putting the cells in stasis....
Power to the constants!
On World Metrology Day, 20 May 2019, what defines a kilogram, an ampere and all the other units will change fundamentallyCredit: PTB If you come...