The looming threat of Asian tobacco companies to global health
There are already one billion tobacco smokers worldwide, and this number is likely to rise further with Asian tobacco companies poised to enter the global...
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Light scattering spectroscopy helps doctors identify early pancreatic cancer
New light-scattering tool offers minimally-invasive, highly accurate means of identifying pre-cancerous and cancerous pancreatic lesions. Currently, no diagnostic technique exists to reliably distingu..
NYU chemists color world of 3-D crystals with advances in self-assembly
A team of New York University chemists has created self-assembled, three-dimensional DNA crystals that can bind a separate, dye-bearing strand--a breakthrough that enhances the functionality...
Ultrashort light pulses for fast ‘lightwave’ computers
ANN ARBOR--Extremely short, configurable "femtosecond" pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster...
Atomic map gives malaria drug new lease on life
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Researchers have for the first time mapped how one of the longest-serving malaria drugs works, opening...
Underwater vehicle design inspired by schools of fish
Credit: Christa Neu, Lehigh University Communications + Public Affairs It is easy to speculate why fish might swim in schools -- better protection from predators,...
A kiss of death to drug the ‘undruggable’
Credit: Xavier Lucas, Alessio Ciulli, University of Dundee Scientists at the University of Dundee have reported a major breakthrough in targeting the causes of many...
Pre-existing immunity to dengue virus shapes Zika-specific T cell response
Credit: Courtesy of La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LA JOLLA, CA -- Although Zika and dengue are considered different virus "species," they are...
Spin-resolved oscilloscope for charge and spin signals
Credit: Masayuki Hashisaka Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation have developed a "spin-resolved oscilloscope." This device is a...
Looming crisis of the much decreased fresh-water supply to Egypt’s Nile delta
Credit: Jean-Daniel Stanley and Pablo L. Clemente and GSA Today. Boulder, Colorado, USA: A multi-year study of Egypt's Nile Delta places the country's major breadbasket...
Legitimacy of reusing images from scientific papers addressed
Credit: C. Clerck (1757) (left) and M. Roberts (1985) (right) It goes without saying that scientific research has to build on previous breakthroughs and publications....
Research partnership to transform Mexico’s hydrocarbon sector
Credit: University of Alberta When Mexico introduced sweeping energy reforms in 2014 that ended 75 years of the state's oil and gas monopoly, it opened...
Professor, researcher in brain machine interfaces to speak at Louisiana Tech
RUSTON, La. - Louisiana Tech University's Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS) and its Consortium on Neuronal Networks in Epilepsy and Memory (NeuroNEM)...
Dan Sinars represents Sandia in first energy leadership class
Credit: (Photo by Randy Montoya) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Dan Sinars, a senior manager in Sandia National Laboratories' pulsed power center, which built and operates the...
Simultaneous detection of multiple spin states in a single quantum dot
Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Quantum dots are very small particles that exhibit luminescence and electronic properties different from those of their bulk materials....
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