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Credit: Mario De Leo-Winkler with images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage team. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
New low-cost method to produce light-based lab-on-a-chip devices for fast medical tests
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Stanford scientists study Pavlovian conditioning in neural networks
Credit: Benjamin?Grewe In the decades following the work by physiologist Ivan Pavlov and his famous salivating dogs, scientists have discovered ...
Humans and smartphones may fail frequently to detect face morph photos
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WPI team grows heart tissue on spinach leaves
Loading video... Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Worcester, Mass. - Researchers face a fundamental challenge as they seek to scale up ...
Scientists evade the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
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Molecular ‘treasure maps’ to help discover new materials
Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University of Southampton working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool have developed ...
Scientists discover urinary biomarker that may help track ALS
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Huns and settlers may have cooperated on the frontier of Roman Empire
Credit: Erzsébet Fóthi, Hungarian Natural History Museum Budapest Analysis of isotopes in bones and teeth from fifth-century cemeteries suggests that ...
Lack of staffing, funds prevent marine protected areas from realizing full potential
Credit: David Gill Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an increasingly popular strategy for protecting marine biodiversity, but a new global ...
It’s a fish eat tree world
Credit: Andrew Tanentzap (Millbrook, NY) Most of the planet's freshwater stores are found in the northern hemisphere, a region that ...
Under the dead sea, warnings of dire drought
Credit: Yael Kiro/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Nearly 1,000 feet below the bed of the Dead Sea, scientists have found evidence that ...
Machine learning lets scientists reverse-engineer cellular control networks
Credit: Patrick Collins, Tufts University The flow of information between cells in our bodies is exceedingly complex: sensing, signaling, and ...
Researchers use light to remotely control curvature of plastics
Credit: Amber Hubbard Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get two-dimensional (2-D) ...
3-D printing turns nanomachines into life-size workers
Credit: © Chenfeng Ke Using advanced 3-D printing, Dartmouth College researchers have unlocked the key to transforming microscopic nanorings into ...
Metabolites of Resveratrol (Longevinex) pass through blood-ocular barriers in humans
Inability to obtain biopsy specimens from tissues in the brain and eyes of humans had previously thwarted confirmation of resveratrol ...
Ultrafast measurements explain quantum dot voltage drop
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 22, 2017--Solar cells and photodetectors could soon be made from new ...
The ‘time machine’ that replicates 3 years of weather in 3 days
Montreal, March 22, 2017 -- Climate change is wreaking havoc on the environment. While the main culprit is carbon emissions, ...
AMP issues best practice guidelines for next-generation sequencing-based oncology panel validation
BETHESDA, Md. -- March 22, 2017 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional ...
Making ‘mulch’ ado of ant hills
Credit: Photo courtesy T. Li. Ants can be annoying little insects. In your home, they make army-like lines to any ...
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