Study: Mobile money lifts Kenyan households out of poverty
Since 2008, MIT economist Tavneet Suri has studied the financial and social impacts of Kenyan mobile-money services, which allow users to store and exchange monetary...
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Meadow restoration studied for potential to build carbon credits in California
Credit: Photo courtesy of the University of Nevada, Reno. RENO, Nev. - Turning meadow restoration into cleaner air is the goal of researchers at the...
Prof Steve WaiChing Sun wins Air Force’s Young Investigator Program Award
Credit: Steve WaiChing Sun, Columbia Engineering Prof Steve WaiChing Sun Wins Air Force's Young Investigator Program Award to Model Load Response of Granular Materials Steve...
Researchers identify potentially druggable mutant p53 proteins that promote cancer growth
Credit: Sordella Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Discovered in the 1970s, tumor suppressors are among the most important proteins in the body. A...
UTA researchers win three federal transportation grants
Credit: UT Arlington The University of Texas at Arlington has won three national U.S. Department of Transportation grants that could be worth about $12 million...
Perspectives on magnetic reconnection
Credit: Elle Starkman/PPPL for Masaaki Yamada. Ellen Zweibel photo courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Magnetic reconnection research sheds light on explosive phenomena in astrophysics..
Treating cancer, mental health neglect in rural America
Jennifer Lycette, M.D., understands the importance of treating patients with cancer at home in their in rural communities. It allows them to spend more time...
Personality traits and psychiatric disorders linked to specific genomic locations
A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has identified six loci or regions of the human genome that are significantly linked to personality traits, report...
Scientists determine how much damage memory devices can take in mass transit accidents
Credit: Jonathan Cohen/Binghamton University BINGHAMTON, NY - While investigating mass transit accidents, especially in air travel, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials often rely ..
UMMS scientists co-discover first ‘off-switches’ for CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing
Credit: University of Massachusetts Medical School CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing is quickly revolutionizing biomedical research, but the new technology is not yet exact. The technique can...
Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species
Credit: Flickr user, wanderingseoul61 Extinctions related to climate change have already happened in hundreds of plant and animal species around the world. New research, publishing...
Against the tide: A fish adapts quickly to lethal levels of pollution
Credit: Andrew Whitehead/UC Davis Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the...
Researchers map neural circuitry of songbird learning
How do juvenile songbirds learn to sing in a way that preserves both the unique features of local song culture and their specifics-specific song "signature"?...
Report proposes standards for sharing data and code used in computational studies
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Reporting new research results involves detailed descriptions of methods and materials used in an experiment. But...
Artificial beta cells
Credit: ETH Zurich Researchers led by ETH Professor Martin Fussenegger at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE) in Basel have produced artificial beta...
