Deploying an ancient defense to kill cancer
Credit: Bo Jungmayer / Fred Hutch News Service A recent small trial in 15 cancer patients with advanced soft-tissue sarcomas aimed to find out whether...
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Google’s AI tool for video searching can be easily deceived
Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new tool that uses machine learning to automatically analyze and label video content...
Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storage
Credit: Matthew Catenacci DURHAM, N.C. -- USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks to the rise in printable...
Two Penn physicians awarded SU2C Immuno-Oncology Innovative Research Grants
PHILADELPHIA - Two doctors in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded Immuno-Oncology Innovative Research Grants (IRG) by Stand...
Stand Up to Cancer innovation grant funds MD Anderson microbiome study
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center An Innovative Research Grant from Stand Up to Cancer will help a University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center physician...
Research measures potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
Smoking cigarettes can lead to illness and death. Free radicals, which are atoms or groups of atoms with unpaired electrons, in inhaled smoke are thought...
New technology could end costly crude oil pipeline blockages
Credit: Yao et al., 2015, Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Houston Getting crude oil from the wellhead to its downstream destination can be literally...
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April 2017
Credit: Zhijia Du, Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Dept. of Energy COMPUTING - Quantum deep In a first for deep learning, an Oak Ridge National Laboratory-led team...
UTA assistant professor awarded APS’s Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award
Credit: UTA The American Physical Society has awarded Benjamin Jones, assistant professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Arlington, the Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation...
Domesticated rice goes rogue
Credit: Ken Olsen A new study in the April 3 issue of Nature Genetics describes an ancestry.com-type adventure that reveals the deep history of a...
Study ids ways to encourage ‘refuge’ planting, slowing resistance to bt crops
A new study from North Carolina State University finds a significant shortfall in the amount of "refuge" cropland being planted in North Carolina -- likely...
Unique experiment set to reveal the effects of climate change on the forests of the future
Credit: Norbury Estate A major new decade-long experiment by scientists at the University of Birmingham to study the impact of climate and environmental change on...
Yale program empowering leaders in tropics receives $4.9 million Arcadia Grant
The Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI), a Yale-based program that makes the latest tools and research in forest restoration and sustainable management accessible to...
Tiny plankton wields biological ‘gatling gun’ in microbial Wild West
Credit: Photo: Urban Tillmann. Researchers have obtained an unprecedented view of the 'ballistic' weaponry of planktonic microbes, including one that can fire projectiles as if...
Multi-university effort to advance materials, define the future of mobility
Credit: Image: Photostock. Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the...
