George Mason University partners with Wiley for online graduate programs
Hoboken, NJ - January 10, 2017 - John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) George Mason University have entered into a 10-year agreement...
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Taking graphics cards beyond gaming
The graphics cards found in powerful gaming computers are now capable of solving computationally intensive mathematical problems common in science and engineering applications, thanks to...
Difficulty in noticing that white people are white, new study finds
As part of the study, people had to guess what a group of three white or black actors had in common. When the common feature...
Physicists awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the universe
Theoretical physicists from the University of Plymouth have been awarded funding to enhance our understanding of the world and the universe that surrounds us. The...
3-D printing and nanotechnology, a mighty alliance to detect toxic liquids
Credit: Polytechnique Montréal Carbon nanotubes have made headlines in scientific journals for a long time, as has 3D printing. But when both combine with the...
National VA effort reduced risky opioid prescriptions for veterans, study finds
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Fewer veterans received prescriptions for risky dosages of opioid painkillers after a national initiative took aim at reducing high doses and...
New species of ground beetle described from a 147-year-old specimen
Credit: James K. Liebherr While new species are most commonly described based on recent field collections, undertaken at poorly explored places, some are identified in...
Unlikely couple: Liaison between a Sika deer and a Japanese snow monkey
Credit: Alexandre Bonnefoy In 2014 reports of an Antarctic fur seal coercing king penguins into sexual relations made headlines worldwide, as it was the first...
New research sheds light on why plants change sex
Plants with a particular breeding system change their sex depending on how much light they receive, new scientific research has revealed. The ability of plants...
Scrapping excessive neural connection helps build new connections
Credit: Osaka University The formation and refinement of neural networks is known to be often an activity-dependent process, but mechanisms and nature of activity are...
More individual therapy for blood cancer patients
Because it is impossible to predict which acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) patients will benefit, all patients are routinely treated with chemotherapy although only some will...
Telerehabilitation through internet improve life of women suffering breast cancer
(University of Granada) Researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and from hospitals Virgen de las Nieves and San Cecilio (Granada) have proved that telerehabilitation...
The importance of the glutamine metabolism in colon cancer
Credit: Osaka University The importance of glutamine metabolism for colon cancer was revealed by Masamitsu Konno, Ph.D, Masaaki Miyo, M.D. Ph.D, Masaki Mori, M.D. Ph.D...
People with early-onset Parkinson’s disease may benefit from boosting niacin in diet
Credit: University of Leicester Team studied fruit flies with a mutation that mimics the human disease Niacin/Vitamin B3 is found in a variety of foods...
Study shows biological changes that could underlie higher psychosis risk in immigrants
TORONTO, Jan. 10, 2017 - A new study could explain how migrating to another country increases a person's risk of developing schizophrenia, by altering brain...
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