Boosting your own defenses against heart disease
Credit: Chris Glembotski A protein found in the heart that is known to be involved in cellular stress responses in ...
Star clusters discovery could upset the astronomical applecart
Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team. The discovery of young stars in old star clusters could ...
Head injuries can alter hundreds of genes and lead to serious brain diseases
Credit: Reed Hutchinson/UCLA Head injuries can harm hundreds of genes in the brain in a way that increases people's risk ...
Breakthrough in live coral imaging
Corals are calcifying animals and are the prime architects of the most diverse marine ecosystem, the coral reefs. The coral ...
Turning food waste into tires
Credit: Photo by Kenneth Chamberlain, courtesy of The Ohio State University. WOOSTER, Ohio--Tomorrow's tires could come from the farm as ...
NASA sees powerful Tropical Cyclone Enawo threatening Madagascar
Loading video... Credit: Credits: NASA/JAXA, Hal Pierce Tropical Cyclone Enawo has continued to intensify while moving toward Madagascar. NASA's Aqua ...
Paleolake deposits on Mars might look like sediments in Indonesia
Credit: Goudge et al. and GSA Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: In their GSA Bulletin article published online last week, Timothy ...
Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Detecting and predicting lightning just got a lot easier. The first images from a new instrument onboard ...
Computational method makes gene expression analyses more accurate
PITTSBURGH--A new computational method can improve the accuracy of gene expression analyses, which are increasingly used to diagnose and monitor ...
World’s largest autism genome database shines new light on many ‘autisms’
NEW YORK (March 6, 2017) - The newest study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project - the world's largest autism ...
New blood test could help detect and locate cancer early on
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new blood test that could detect cancer -- and ...
New method rescues donor organs to save lives
Loading video... Credit: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--March 6, 2017--A multidisciplinary team led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Mikati Foundation Professor ...
One-two punch may floor worst infections
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (March 6, 2017) - McMaster University researchers have found a new way to treat the ...
World-first synthetic receptor mimics how cells ‘talk’ to the world around them
Credit: University of Bristol Researchers from the University of Bristol have found a way to mimic the way cells in ...
The influence of stimulants on performance when playing chess
How do highly complex cognitive processes change when we take pharmacological substances? Is it possible to enhance these processes by ...
What’s the real extent of industry payments to doctors?
More than three in every five Americans see a doctor who receives some form of payment from industry. This is ...
A new look at the nature of dark matter
Credit: NASA/Jason Cowan (Astronomy Technology Center). The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass ...
Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises
Credit: Ignacio Trujillo (IAC) with images from the HUDF 2012 programme. Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early ...
Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its ...
AGU’s newest open access journal GeoHealth publishes first articles
Washington, DC-- The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Wiley today announced that GeoHealth, AGU's newest open access journal, has published ...
