Nature: Silk Road evolved as ‘grass-routes’ movement
Credit: WUSTL Photo Nearly 5,000 years ago, long before the vast east-west trade routes of the Great Silk Road were ...
Neanderthals at El Sidrón ate a diet of wild mushrooms, pine nuts and moss
(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) The studies of Neanderthal fossil remains found at dig sites across Europe continue to provide ...
Chinese famine data shows no long-term health effects except for schizophrenia
March 8, 2017 -- A new systematic re-analysis of all previous studies of long-term health effects of prenatal exposure to ...
Molecule shown to repair damaged axons
Credit: The Neuro A foray into plant biology led one researcher to discover that a natural molecule can repair axons, ...
Penn State student Julie Fenton selected to meet with Nobel Laureates
Penn State chemistry graduate student Julie Fenton has been selected to participate in the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in ...
University of Miami’s Miami project successfully completes SCI clinical trial
Credit: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine / Miami Project to Cure Paralysis MIAMI, Florida, March 6, 2017 - ...
Paper pumps power portable microfluidics, biomedical devices
Credit: Glenn Walker Biomedical engineering researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ...
For organ transplant recipients, skin diseases and risk factors differ by race
Credit: Drexel University It's been long recognized that the immunosuppressant drugs patients are prescribed after an organ transplant come with ...
New material regrows bone
A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse's skull by regrowing "quality bone," a breakthrough that could drastically ...
Chemists create molecular ‘leaf’ that collects and stores solar power without solar panels
Credit: Ben Noffke and Richard Schaugaard, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An international team of scientists led by Liang-shi Li ...
New survey finds ‘Peter Pan’ radio galaxies that may never grow up
A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies--galaxies powered by newly energized black holes. ...
UTA researchers to develop new math theory for improvement of imaging technology
Credit: UTA Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington are working on a project which could have a sizable ...
Manhattan DA’s office awards $10.3 million grant to create Youth Opportunity Hub
March 7, 2017 -- The Manhattan District Attorney's Criminal Justice Investment Initiative has awarded a grant to Alwyn T. Cohall, ...
Small nanoparticles have surprisingly big effects on polymer nanocomposites
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy, created by Jan-Michael Carrillo OAK RIDGE, Tenn., March 8, 2017--Polymer nanocomposites ...
NASA satellites see Tropical Cyclone Enawo moving through central Madagascar
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Tropical Cyclone Enawo continued to move through central Madagascar on a southern ...
Clemson scientist receives $367K grant to trace how arsenic disrupts developing cells
Credit: Jim Melvin / Clemson University CLEMSON, South Carolina -- Novelists often employ arsenic poisoning as a dramatic tool to ...
Synthesis of medicinally privileged heterocycles through dielectric heating
Heterocyclic compounds are enormously crucial in various industries including food, agricultural, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Heterocyclic pharmacophores are one of the ...
Philosophy & Predictive Processing online publication on the mind, brain and consciousness
Mainz-based Professor of Philosophy Thomas Metzinger sets another example for ethically responsible publishing in the digital age. After successfully publishing ...
In-cell NMR: A new application
Credit: Enrico Luchinat and Lucia Banci The structure of biological macromolecules is critical to understanding their function, mode of interaction ...
Plants at the pump
Credit: Photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories LIVERMORE, Calif.--Regular, unleaded or algae? That's a choice drivers could make at the ...
