A&A special issue: GREGOR first results
Credit: Figure from Joshi et al. (2016, A&A, 596, A8) This special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics contains a series of scientific articles, which are...
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Use your words: Written prisoner interactions predict whether they’ll clean up their acts
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The evolution of how prisoners in substance-abuse programs communicate is a good indicator of whether they'll return to crime, new research has...
Can DXA be used to predict fracture risk in people with diabetes?
Credit: © International Osteoporosis Foundation Increased risk of fracture has been shown to be one of the complications arising from longstanding diabetes. With the worldwide...
With promising results from emerging therapies, Penn research yields hope for amyloidosis
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Feathered fathers and mothers have diverse parenting arrangements
Credit: Nature MANHATTAN, KANSAS -- Birds of a feather flock together but they schedule parenting duties differently, according to a Kansas State University researcher. Brett...
NASA sees ‘nada’ strength left in Tropical Cyclone Nada
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL/Ed Olsen NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Cyclone Nada in the Northern Indian Ocean and infrared imagery showed that Nada had...
Global Internet of Things consortium establishes investment vehicle at Tel Aviv University
The global consortium Israel IoT Innovations-i3 Equity Partners (i3) has established an investment vehicle at Tel Aviv University with the initial sum of $20 million...
NYU Tandon’s Elza Erkip garners prestigious engineering award
BROOKLYN, New York - Elza Erkip, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, will be the 2016 recipient...
Artificial intelligence toolkit spots new child sexual abuse media online
Amsterdam, December 1, 2016 - New artificial intelligence software designed to spot new child sexual abuse media online could help police catch child abusers. The...
Four weeks to prepare cancer patients for surgery
Just four weeks of prehabilitation may be enough to help some cancer patients get in shape for surgery. That's according to a recent study of...
NEOMED researchers identify link between brain and bone in Alzheimer’s disease
ROOTSTOWN, OH--Researchers at NEOMED have just identified a major connection between areas of the brainstem - the ancient area that controls mood, sleep and metabolism...
Experts argue it’s time to stop using bite marks in forensics
Researchers are increasingly skeptical about the validity of bite-mark identification as trial evidence. A new paper in Journal of Law and the Biosciences describes the...
IUPUI chemists develop new technique that could speed drug development
Credit: Whitney Walker, School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS -- Synthesizing useful new compounds is what pharmaceutical discovery and development is a..
New findings boost promise of molybdenum sulfide for hydrogen catalysis
Researchers from North Carolina State University, Duke University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that molybdenum sulfide (MoS2) holds more promise than previously thought as...
Tangled threads weave through cosmic oddity
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, A. Fabian New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater...
