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Credit: Mediated Matter Group / MIT Media Lab The world is awash in digital images, from photographs to x-rays to computer models to 3D scans....
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Memory depends on protein ‘off-switch’, researchers find
Credit: University of Warwick Memory, learning and cognitive flexibility depend on a protein 'off-switch' in the brain, according to a breakthrough discovery made by an...
Penn-developed approach could limit toxicity of CAR T therapy in acute myeloid leukemia
PHILADELPHIA - A new approach pioneered at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center may provide a new path towards treating Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)...
ORNL ramps up production of key radioisotope for cancer-fighting drug
Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Department of Energy The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now producing actinium-227 (Ac-227) to meet projected...
OSU, NOAA researchers document widespread methane seeps off Oregon coast
Credit: Oregon State University NEWPORT, Ore. - For the past two years, scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
Study suggests scientists can use microbial measurements to gauge river flow
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University scientists have created a tool that can predict the flow rate of Arctic rivers with...
Why do older male birds father more illegitimate children?
Credit: Terry Burke When female birds have chicks as the result of an extra-marital fling, the fathers are almost always older males, and scientists are...
Nanoplastics accumulate in marine organisms and may pose harm to aquatic food chains
Credit: National University of Singapore Plastic nanoparticles - these are tiny pieces of plastic less than 1 micrometre in size - could potentially contaminate food...
Ancient tooth shows Mesolithic ancestors were fish and plant eaters
Credit: Sapienza University of Rome Previous analysis of Mesolithic skeletal remains in this region has suggested a more varied Medittaranrrean diet consisting of terrestrial, freshwater...
Dolphin algorithm could lead to better medical ultrasounds
Millions of years of evolutionary fine-tuning have made dolphins phenomenally good at using echolocation to orient themselves, find food and communicate with one another. But...
Prototype nuclear battery packs 10 times more power
Credit: Elena Khavina/MIPT Press Office Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials...
Understanding immune system interplay to improve organ transplant success
A rare opportunity to analyse both blood and tissue samples from human transplant recipients has allowed immunology researchers at the Babraham Institute to pinpoint how...
Number of wild mountain gorillas exceeds 1,000
Credit: Martha Robbins, MPI-EVA "This represents one of the rare success stories in conservation. The population of mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanoes has more...
Scientists boost crop production by 47 percent by speeding up photorespiration
Credit: Video produced by Claire Benjamin/RIPE project Plants such as soybeans and wheat waste between 20 and 50 percent of their energy recycling toxic chemicals...
Study estimates increased death rate in Puerto Rico in months after Hurricane Maria
Boston, MA - The mortality rate in Puerto Rico rose by 62% after Hurricane Maria, according to a new study led by researchers from Harvard...
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