Hawaii’s newest species named in honor of President Obama
Credit: Brian Skerry / National Geographic Today, scientists from the Bishop Museum, NOAA, and the Association for Marine Exploration published the description of a new...
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Biomarker for oxidative stress plays a major role in hepatic inflammation
Credit: CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Diet-related diseases like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are known to have...
The luxury of causality: Parallel Intelligence, a proposed move toward the intelligent future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning - from the real world. Nine months ago, a computer beat one of the world's best players at one of...
ANU helps find supercluster of galaxies near Milky Way
Credit: Supplied by the research team The Australian National University (ANU) is part of an international team of astronomers that found one of the Universe's...
Epigenetic changes promoting cancer metastasis identified
Latest research from New Zealand's University of Otago is shedding new light on why and how cancer cells spread from primary tumours to other parts...
Calculating 1 billion plasma particles in a supercomputer
Credit: Dr. Hiroki Hasegawa Background to the Research The generation of fusion energy utilizes the fusion reaction that occurs inside a high-temperature plasma. In order...
FASEB announces new database of research organism providers
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) launched a new tool to help biomedical and life science investigators identify US suppliers of research...
High-severity wildfires complicate natural regeneration for California conifers
Credit: Hugh Safford/USDA Forest Service A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California found that conifer seedlings were found in less...
Nanoarray sniffs out and distinguishes multiple diseases
Before modern medical lab techniques became available, doctors diagnosed some diseases by smelling a patient's breath. Scientists have been working for years to develop analytical...
Flame retardant exposure linked to income, BMI and household smoking
A class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been phased out of production in the U.S. out of concern for their...
First light for band 5 at ALMA
The compound view shows a new ALMA Band 5 view of the colliding galaxy system Arp 220 (in red) on top of an image from...
RNA pathway plays key role in health, lifespan, fly study shows
Credit: Brian Jones/Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Humans and other animals carry rogue sequences of DNA in their genomes called transposable elements (TEs). To prevent...
Threading the RSV vaccine needle
Credit: Stobart et al Nature Communications (2016). Crafting a vaccine against RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) has been a minefield for 50 years, but scientists believe...
Novel technique helps ID elusive molecules
Credit: The Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University Among the most important molecules in the living world are sugars or carbohydrates, which play a vital...
‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers
Molecules 10,000 times narrower than the width of a human hair could hold the key to making possible wooden skyscrapers and more energy-efficient paper production,...
