Mission: Possible — mapping dangerous terrain
Ensuring military forces have up-to-date information about a potentially hostile region offers obvious advantages, but current methods for doing that - especially along shorelines, where...
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Expedition probes ocean’s smallest organisms for climate answers
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katy Mersmann Satellite images of phytoplankton blooms on the surface of the ocean often dazzle with their diverse colors, shades...
My host is my castle
Credit: Danny Haelewaters, Harvard University, The Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Despite researchers having little fondness for them, a large fraction of the world's...
Surviving large carnivores have far-reaching impact
Credit: Belize Jaguar Project/Virginia Tech Anywhere large-bodied mammalian carnivore species are present, other, smaller carnivores are less likely to occur, according to an international team...
The advances of aging research to be presented at the Basel Life Congress
Credit: Insilico Medicine Monday, August 6, 2018, Rockville, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company specializing in the application of next-generation artificial intelligence for drug...
BioOne announces nonprofit platform partnership with SPIE
WASHINGTON, DC - July 31, 2018 : BioOne (about.BioOne.org), the nonprofit publisher of more than 200 journals from 150 scientific societies and independent presses, today...
New NYUAD research finds 3D printers offer alternate method to create microfluidic probes
Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi August 8, 2018, Abu Dhabi: NYU Abu Dhabi Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Mohammad Qasaimeh, and NYU Abu Dhabi...
Is your lung cancer really ROS1-negative?
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Drugs like crizotinib are used to treat patients with ROS1-positive lung cancer. But which patients are ROS1-positive? A University...
SwRI, UTSA researchers design minimally invasive medicinal implant
SAN ANTONIO -- Aug.8, 2018 -- Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are developing a 3D printed implant...
Cleveland Clinic researchers receive $4.7 million NIH grant to prevent cancer-associated thrombosis
Credit: Cleveland Clinic Aug. 8, 2018, Cleveland: The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $4.7...
World’s fastest creature may also be one of the smallest
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech Ask most people to identify the fastest animal on Earth and they'll suggest a cheetah, falcon or even a sailfish....
How to trigger innate fear response?
Credit: KAIST When animals encounter danger, they usually respond to the situation in one of two ways: to freeze or to flee. How do they...
The value of seagrass in securing a sustainable planet
Credit: Richard Unsworth/Swansea University Researchers believe that improving knowledge of how seagrasses are important for biodiversity, fisheries and our global carbon cycle in turn needs...
UNH Researchers find seed coats could lead to strong, tough, yet flexible materials
Credit: UNH DURHAM, N.H. - Inspired by elements found in nature, researchers at the University of New Hampshire say the puzzle-like wavy structure of the...
Good news for fishermen: Browning impacts fish less than expected
If you fill a clear glass with lake water, chances are that the water has a slight yellow or brown color. The color is caused...
