Diabetes drug takes aim at cancer’s fuel source
PHILADELPHIA -- In the last three years, researchers have shown that diabetic patients with head and neck cancer, may have better outcomes than non-diabetic patients...
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Expanding point-of-care disease diagnostics with ultrasound (video)
Credit: Credit: American Chemical Society Fast, accurate and inexpensive medical tests in a doctor's office are only possible for some conditions. To create new in-office...
Lifting the fog on China’s unwieldy air pollution problem
The new year in many northern Chinese cities kicked off with a blanket of thick, choking smog -- that's despite the anti-pollution efforts that have...
Scientists determine a molecular mechanism of anti-cancer therapeutic candidate
Credit: MIPT Press Office An international team of scientists, including MIPT researchers, has defined the way their promising anti-cancer molecules work. The research findings will...
New study reveals solidification cracking during welding of steel
New research led by the University of Leicester has made a novel breakthrough in understanding how solidification cracking occurs during the welding of steel, an...
Testing the waters
Credit: John Ulan for the University of Alberta Researchers at the University of Alberta have conducted the first-ever study to use hydraulic fracturing fluids to...
International consensus on the environmental regulatory assessment of endocrine disrupting substance
PENSACOLA, Fla., - Results of the SETAC Pellston Workshop® "Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment Approaches for Endocrine-Active Substances" (EHRA) were recently published in Integrated Environmen..
Corralling stink bugs could lead to better wine
To wine makers, stink bugs are more than a nuisance. These tiny pests can hitch rides on grapes going through the wine making process, releasing...
Calculating a new theory: How to teach an old field new tricks
A rain drop is a sphere. It may not look like it, what with it's pointy head and rounded bottom, but it is. Fractional calculus...
Safety codes can lead to over-built bridges, higher building costs
Credit: UBC Okanagan A recent study by researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus examined a variety of bridge types along with design requirements under the Canadian...
Researcher proposes novel mechanism to stop tsunamis in their tracks
Devastating tsunamis could be halted before hitting the Earth's shoreline by firing deep-ocean sound waves at the oncoming mass of water, new research has proposed....
I can see clearly now
Credit: Video courtesy of Carlos Mastrangelo Jan. 25, 2017 - The days of wearing bifocals or constantly swapping out reading glasses might soon come to...
Supercool electrons
Credit: Sarah Wong The future of quantum computing is a hot topic not only for experts but also in many commercial and governmental agencies. Rather...
The power of wind energy and how to use it
Wind offers an immense, never ending source of energy that can be successfully harnessed to power all of the things that currently draw energy from...
The apple maggot fly — how an altered sense of smell could drive the formation of new species
Credit: NCBS-TIFR "Two months ago, we were congratulating ourselves on a fair crop of winterapples. To all appearance, they were freer from worms than we...
