Predicting future sports rankings from evolving performance
Competitive sports and games are all about the performance of players and teams, which results in performance-based hierarchies. Because such performance is measurable and is...
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New antimatter breakthrough to help illuminate mysteries of the Big Bang
Credit: Professor Niels Madsen Swansea University scientists working at CERN have made a landmark finding, taking them one step closer to answering the question of...
Bioinformatics brings to light new combinations of drugs to fight breast cancer
Credit: IRB Barcelona Based on the study of cell signalling networks, the cell signals that drugs alter when they reach their target molecule, an exhaustive...
Male bumblebees leave home without looking back
Credit: Théo Robert Male bumblebees leave home and fly away without looking back, making no effort to remember the location of the nest, researchers at...
University of Zurich to become global center for biodiversity research
Credit: University of Zurich UZH succeeded in bringing the International Project Office of bioDISCOVERY to Zurich following negotiations with the global science network FutureEarth,. FutureEarth...
Genetic mutations could increase risk of cytomegalovirus infection
Credit: Wikimedia user . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2...
Professor Daniel Zilberman receives Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council
Credit: Professor Daniel Zilberman The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded new John Innes Centre (JIC) Project Leader Professor Daniel Zilberman a Consolidator Grant to...
The world’s first demonstration of spintronics-based artificial intelligence
Credit: Shunsuke Fukami (Tohoku University) Researchers at Tohoku University have, for the first time, successfully demonstrated the basic operation of spintronics-based artificial intelligence. ..
Closer ties for silver clusters
Credit: Reproduced with permission © 2016 American Chemical Society. Tiny clusters of silver atoms arranged with atomic level precision could become more versatile and useful...
Bionic pancreas system successfully controls blood sugar without risk of hypoglycemia
The bionic pancreas system developed by Boston University (BU) investigators proved better than either conventional or sensor-augmented insulin pump therapy at managing blood sugar levels...
New model more accurately predicts breast cancer risk in Hispanic women
A new breast cancer model, published today in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, will help health care providers more accurately predict breast cancer...
Does ‘publication bias’ affect the ‘canonization’ of facts in science?
Researchers model how 'publication bias' does -- and doesn't -- affect the 'canonization' of facts in science Arguing in a Boston courtroom in 1770, John...
Laser pulses help scientists tease apart complex electron interactions
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY-Scientists studying high temperature superconductors-materials that carry electric current with no energy loss when cooled below a certain temperatu..
Sunlight offers surprise benefit — it energizes infection fighting T cells
Credit: Georgetown University WASHINGTON -- Sunlight allows us to make vitamin D, credited with healthier living, but a surprise research finding could reveal another powerful...
Amazonia’s best and worst areas for carbon recovery revealed
Credit: Piponiot et al., eLife The first mapping of carbon recovery in Amazonian forests following emissions released by commercial logging activities has been published in...
