Credit: Sangeeta Mangubhai/WCS. NEW YORK (June 5, 2018)--The lowly sea cucumber strikes observers as a simple sausage-like creature, one that is far less interesting than...
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Researchers at Oregon State University are looking at a highly durable organic pigment, used by humans in artwork for hundreds of years,...
Credit: University of Groningen The human glutamine transporter ASCT2 is upregulated in several forms of cancer. It is also the docking platform for a wide...
Credit: John Dickens @ British Antarctic Survey Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have, for the first time, tracked the lives of leopard seals as...
Credit: Snapshot Serengeti A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique called deep...
Credit: Georgia Tech / Karcz / Guberman / Brumfield There's a long way to go before neuroscience can fathom the vastness of human consciousness, but...
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New evidence suggests a mechanism by which progressive accumulation of Tau protein in brain cells may lead to Alzheimer's disease....
Credit: Dui Qin/Xi'an Jiaotong University WASHINGTON, D.C., June 5, 2018 -- Embolization -- the use of various techniques to cut off the blood vessels that...
Credit: University of Seville The appearance of criteria and emerging pollutants in water is a modern theme that has caused the scientific community to research...
Credit: MfN Berlin Neutrons can penetrate deep into a sample without destroying it. In addition, neutrons can also distinguish between light elements such as hydrogen,...
DURHAM, N.H. - It doesn't matter if it's a forest, a soybean field, or a prairie, all plants take up carbon dioxide during photosynthesis -...
Credit: The University of Akron Ever wonder why paint peels off the wall during summer's high humidity? It's the same reason that bandages separate from...
Credit: Alexandra Kosiba, University of Vermont BURLINGTON, Vt., (June 5, 2018) - Red spruce, for decades the forest equivalent of the canary in the coal...
OAK BROOK, Ill. - A combination of digital mammography and tomosynthesis detects 90 percent more breast cancers than digital mammography alone, according to a study...
OAK BROOK, Ill. - Medicare beneficiaries who undergo breast cancer screening with mammography are more likely than unscreened women to undergo other preventive health services...
