Shelter dogs need weekends too — researchers awarded $1.7 million grant
Credit: Virginia Tech When separated, they've been known to travel thousands of miles to reunite with their human families. Their companionship alleviates loneliness and can...
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Among birds-of-paradise, good looks are not enough to win a mate
Ithaca, NY--Male birds-of-paradise are justly world famous for their wildly extravagant feather ornaments, complex calls, and shape-shifting dance moves--all evolved to attract a mate. New...
Australian mammals at greatest risk from cats and foxes, new study
Credit: Hugh McGregor / Arid Recovery New research led by the Threatened Species Recovery Hub has revealed which Australian mammals are most vulnerable to cats...
Why macrophages rest in healthy tissue
Credit: ETH Zurich/Nikhil Jain and Isabel Gerber Macrophages are a type of white blood cell. The term comes from the Greek for "big eater", which...
Neuroimaging study reveals ‘hot spot’ for cue-reactivity in substance-dependent population
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina When patients with dependence on alcohol, cocaine or nicotine are shown drug cues, or images related to the substance,...
Studying water flow for more efficient aquaponic systems
Credit: Todd Guerdat WASHINGTON, D.C., November 20, 2018 -- An aquaponic system is an example of an integrated farming method in which the waste byproduct...
Machine learning can be used to predict which patients require emergency admission
Machine learning - a field of artificial intelligence that uses statistical techniques to enable computer systems to 'learn' from data - can be used to...
Get dressed!
Credit: Courtesy SIGGRAPH Asia Putting on clothes is a daily, mundane task that most of us perform with little or no thought. We may never...
How reliable are search terms for SEO and SEM results?
CATONSVILLE, MD, November 20, 2018 - With billions of dollars spent each year on search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM), the power...
Treating a rare genetic disorder that causes colon cancer in children
Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston pharmaceutical scientist is developing a new drug which could bring relief to children suffering with Familial Adenomatous...
A Trojan horse delivery method for miRNA-enriched extracellular vesicles
A method for large-scale production of extracellular vesicles enriched with specific microRNAs (miRNAs) has been developed in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM)...
Insilico Medicine to present its latest research in a talk and workshop at NIPS Expo
Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, November 20, 2018, Rockville, Maryland. The Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is the largest and the leading annual machine learning conference....
Fish can detox too — but not so well, when it comes to mercury
Credit: Melton Griggers It takes six months to get really good at accurately gauging the age of yelloweye rockfish. Because they can live for up...
Cutting the legs off cancer
Credit: Wellcome Images CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38960 Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions between a pair of mole..
Study: Twitter bots had ‘disproportionate’ role spreading misinformation in 2016 election
Credit: Filippo Menczer, Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An analysis of information shared on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election has found that automated...
