Rebecca Richards-Kortum named US science envoy
Credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The State Department has selected Rice University bioengineer and global health pioneer Rebecca Richards-Kortum to serve as...
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Bone apetit: How bacteria eat bone to sustain invasive infection
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have determined the metabolic pathway that Staphylococcus aureus use to survive in...
ARS scientists are working to ensure safe waterways in Georgia
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Scientists with USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) are developing ways to identify the sources of any potentially harmful...
The burglary microbiome project
June 8, 2018 - Atlanta, GA - Researchers have demonstrated that microbial signatures, the unique microbial make-up of each individual, from the built environment can...
A webcam is enough to produce a real-time 3-D model of a moving hand
Credit: Oliver Dietze For the first time, the researchers will be presenting the program at stand G75 in hall 27 of the computer fair Cebit,...
Antioxidants developed by MSU scientists slow down senescence in plants
Credit: Courtesy of Dmitry Kiselevsky Ageing is a complex process involving lots of different mechanisms. One of the main processes on which ageing is based...
Research reveals secret to whale shark hotspots
Credit: MWSRP A study has uncovered the secret to why endangered whale sharks gather on mass at just a handful of locations around the world....
How stem cells move
Credit: Newcastle University, UK Scientists from Newcastle University have shown that human embryonic stem cells move by travelling back and forth in a line, much...
First public forecasts from ViEWS, a political Violence Early-Warning System
Credit: ViEWS, Dept of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden The challenges of preventing, mitigating, and adapting to largescale political violence are daunting, particularly...
Bees and the thought of naught
Credit: © Scarlett Howard & Aurore Avarguès-Weber Though some vertebrates had already been shown to master complex numerical concepts like addition and zero, no evidence...
Moffitt Partners with top cancer centers to endorse goal of eliminating HPV-related cancers
TAMPA, Fla. - Nearly 80 million Americans - one out of every four people - are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV). And of those millions,...
Secrets of fish population changes revealed
Populations of fish in the ocean are notoriously variable, waxing and waning in often unpredictable ways. Knowing what drives changes in fish population sizes is...
Scientists go deep to quantify perovskite properties
Credit: Jean-Christophe Blancon/Los Alamos National Laboratory HOUSTON - (June 8, 2018) - Scientists led by Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered electronic...
Study: Populations of widely spread tree species respond differently to climate change
Credit: Andrés Holz, Portland State University A new Portland State University study shows that not all populations of a single, widely spread tree species respond...
New way to predict caries progression
Credit: Author: Pavel Seredin A team of researchers form Russia discovered that an increase in the concentration of several substances in oral fluid can serve...
