Probing seven worlds with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James...
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Newborn harbor porpoises have the fastest hearing development among mammals
Credit: Solvin Zankl © Fjord og Bælt- Kerteminde All mammals can hear -- but it is not an ability that is fully developed at birth....
Physical therapy proves as effective as surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome
Physical therapy is as effective as surgery in treating carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a new study published in the March 2017 issue of the...
Geosciences in the heart of Texas
Boulder, Colo., USA: Geoscientists from the south-central U.S. and beyond will convene on 13-14 March in San Antonio, Texas, to discuss new science, expand on...
Nanoengineers 3-D print biomimetic blood vessel networks
Credit: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego have 3D printed a lifelike, functional blood vessel network that could...
Want more crop variety? Researchers propose using CRISPR to accelerate plant domestication
Credit: Palmgren et al./Trends in Plant Science 2017 Out of the more than 300,000 plant species in existence, only three species--rice, wheat, and maize--account for...
Mid-Mesozoic beetle in amber stirs questions on rise of flowering plants and pollinators
Credit: Courtesy of José Antonio Peñas (digital scientific illustrator from Madrid, Spain). Named for Charles Darwin, the only known specimen of a newly discovered beetle,...
Hand-picked specialty crops ‘ripe’ for precision agriculture techniques
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Timing the harvest and transport of highly perishable, hand-picked crops such as strawberries so these delicate...
Biochemical ‘fossil’ shows how life may have emerged without phosphate
Credit: Joshua Goldford and Daniel Segrè One major mystery about life's origin is how phosphate became an essential building block of genetic and metabolic machinery...
Research shows exercise is a boon for cancer patients
Exercise and/or psychological therapy work better than medications to reduce cancer-related fatigue and should be recommended first to patients, according to a Wilmot Cancer Institute-led...
Reducing cancer-related fatigue
A new article published online by JAMA Oncology analyzed which of four commonly recommended treatments - exercise, psychological, the combination of both, or pharmaceutical -...
Once overlooked, uninitialized-use ‘bugs’ may provide portal for hacker attacks on linux
Popular with programmers the world over for its stability, flexibilityand security, Linux now appears to be vulnerable to hackers. According to new Georgia Institute of...
New path suggested for nuclear fusion
Credit: Gruebele Group/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Controlled nuclear fusion has been a holy grail for physicists who seek an endless supply of clean energy....
New in vitro toxicology research on health risk assessment wins PETA award
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, March 2, 2017--Researchers have demonstrated the ability to use two new mechanistic models called Adverse Outcome...
The lord of destruction
While his childhood friends built things, Erik was always more intrigued by how and why things break. Prof. Dr. Erik Bitzek has consistently followed this...
