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Credit: IQOQI/Harald Ritsch Nowadays we communicate via radio signals and send electrical pulses through long cables. This could change soon, however: Scientists have been working...

Study finds one in eight Calgary homes exceed Health Canada’s acceptable radon level

Credit: Riley Brandt Radon gas is a colourless, odourless radioactive gas that has been linked to lung cancer. Now, University of Calgary, Cumming School of...

Legos and origami inspire next-generation materials

Credit: Credit: Nan Yang, Jesse L. Silverberg. Inspired by the fun of playing with Legos, an international team of researchers from Tianjin University of Technology...

The IT-LIVER European consortium unveils new TGF-beta functions in liver cancer

Credit: IDIBELL Recent research results from the TGF-beta and cancer research group at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), within IT-Liver, a collaborative European action...

University of Illinois announces new partnership with ZEISS labs@location program

Credit: Kathryn Faith A new agreement between the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and ZEISS...

Cattle associated antibiotics disturb soil ecosystems, Virginia Tech researchers say

Credit: Virginia Tech Manure from cattle administered antibiotics drastically changes the bacterial and fungal make-up of surrounding soil, leading to ecosystem dysfunction, according to a...

Subaru telescope detects the shadow of a gas cloud in an ancient proto-supercluster

Credit: Osaka Sangyo University / NAOJ A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)...

Seabird bones, fossils reveal broad food-web shift in North Pacific

Credit: Donald E. Hurlbert, Smithsonian. For thousands of years, the Hawaiian petrel has soared over the Pacific Ocean, feeding on fish and squid. Now, using...

Seasonal warming leads to smaller animal body sizes

Credit: Curtis Horne Changes in the body size of animals measured under controlled laboratory conditions have been shown to closely match changes in body size...

Man with quadriplegia employs injury bridging technologies to move again — just by thinking

Credit: Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland FES Center CLEVELAND--Bill Kochevar grabbed a mug of water, drew it to his lips and drank through the straw. His...

Key research priorities for agricultural microbiomes identified

Credit: James Kremer A coordinated effort to understand plant microbiomes could boost plant health and agricultural productivity, according to a new Perspective publishing March 28...

Georgia Cancer Center participates in NCI-driven initiative to understand racial, ethnic, age disparities in 6 cancers

Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (March 28, 2017) - The Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University is one of a dozen sites across the nation...

System better allots network bandwidth, for faster page loads

A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest...

Jefferson Lab accomplishes critical milestones toward completion of 12 GeV upgrade

Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility (CEBAF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has achieved two...

Highway to health: WSU findings point way to more nutritious crops