New NIFA study shows capacity funding is a valued investment to states
WASHINGTON, D.C. - March 27, 2017 - Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture ...
USDA announces $300,000 in funding available for youth farm safety
WASHINGTON, D.C. March 27, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture today announced ...
Psychologists enlist machine learning to help diagnose depression
Credit: David M Schnyer, Peter C. Clasen, Christopher Gonzalez and Christopher G. Beevers Depression affects more than 15 million American ...
Kent State chemists create microscopic environment to study cancer cell growth
Credit: Photo provided by Kent State University According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 1,688,780 new ...
New finding could lead to earlier liver cancer diagnosis
Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT In many parts of the world, including Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, exposure to a fungal product ...
Kessler Foundation renews collaboration with Children’s Specialized Hospital
Credit: Kessler Foundation March 27, East Hanover, NJ/New Brunswick, NJ--Kessler Foundation, a global leader in rehabilitation research, and Children's Specialized ...
Researchers show p300 protein may suppress leukemia in MDS patients
Credit: The website of the National Cancer Institute (https://www.cancer.gov). MIAMI, March 27, 2017 - Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
Renewable energy has robust future in much of Africa
Credit: UC Berkeley As Africa gears up for a tripling of electricity demand by 2030, a new Berkeley study maps ...
The economic case for wind and solar energy in Africa
Credit: Grace Wu/Berkeley Lab To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by ...
Researchers create artificial materials atom-by-atom
Credit: Ella Maru Studio & Aalto University Researchers at Aalto University have manufactured artificial materials with engineered electronic properties. By ...
Basic microbiology research study unexpectedly uncovers practical findings for growers
Credit: The American Phytopathological Soceity St. Paul, Minn. (March 2017)--Cover cropping, or the practice of growing unharvested crops to protect ...
Cookbooks give readers (mostly) bad advice on food safety
A recent study finds that bestselling cookbooks offer readers little useful advice about reducing food-safety risks, and that much of ...
Timing a space laser with a NASA-style stopwatch
Loading video... Credit: NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center/Ryan Fitzgibbons To time how long it takes a pulse of laser light ...
For the birds: New prediction method sheds brighter light on flight
Credit: (Photo: Lentink Lab, Stanford University) ARLINGTON, Va.--Resembling a feathered flying ace with his miniature protective goggles and chinstrap, the ...
Minority colorectal cancer patients report higher burden of poor quality-of-life
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - A study of racial disparities in health-related quality of life of colorectal cancer ...
Public-private research to develop more accurate ways of measuring cancer progression
New York, NY March 27, 2017 - Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian, in coordination with the Foundation for the ...
NASA sees tiny Tropical Cyclone Caleb fading
Credit: Credit: NASA / NRL Tropical Cyclone Caleb is weakening in the Southern Indian Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite caught ...
More than 100 years of flooding and erosion in 1 event
Credit: Images in D and E are from Google Earth™ Boulder, Colo., USA: Sara Rathburn of Colorado State University and ...
How do some opioids cause severe itching?
CHAPEL HILL, NC - Opioids have long been an important tool in the world of pain management, but the side ...
‘Fingerprint’ technique spots frog populations at risk from pollution
Credit: Lancaster University Researchers at Lancaster University have found a way to detect subtle early warning signs that reveal a ...
