Climate Resilience through Sweetpotato (CReSP) announced
Credit: International Potato Center (CIP) The International Potato Center (CIP) team led by World Food Prize Laureate Dr. Maria Andrade announce the global Climate Resilience...
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Better cartilage map could help researchers improve engineered joint repair
Cartilage serves as a shock absorber for the human body, lubricating joints and helping them move smoothly. Its texture is softer than bone -- yet...
What can Pokémon Go teach the world of conservation?
(University of Oxford) A new paper by a group of researchers from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and University...
Efficient approach for tracking physical activity with wearable health devices
Credit: Edgar Lobaton Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient technique for accurately tracking a user's physical activity based on data from...
Tackling blood diseases, immune disorders
Credit: BD Colen/Harvard University Cambridge/Boston, Mass. - November 16, 2016 - Harvard University has completed a license agreement with Magenta Therapeutics, a new startup company...
Vitamin D reduces respiratory infections, says CU Anschutz study
AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 16, 2016) - Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that high doses of vitamin D reduce the...
Indonesian fires exposed 69 million to ‘killer haze’
Wildfires in Indonesia and Borneo exposed 69 million people to unhealthy air pollution and are responsible for thousands of premature deaths, new research has shown....
World’s fastest quantum simulator operating at the atomic level
Credit: NINS/IMS Okazaki, Japan - Kenji Ohmori (Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan) has collaborated with Matthias Weidemüller (University of Heidelberg..
Dry adhesive holds in extreme cold, strengthens in extreme heat
Credit: Courtesy of Science Communications Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that...
Marijuana could help treat drug addiction, mental health
Credit: UBC Using marijuana could help some alcoholics and people addicted to opioids kick their habits, a UBC study has found. "Research suggests that people...
Study finds evidence of Deepwater Horizon oil in land-based birds
The ecological consequences of an environmental disaster can extend further than one may imagine as effects propagate through interconnected food webs. Most recently, researchers in...
Cough virus kills liver cancer cells and hepatitis virus
A virus that causes childhood coughs and colds could help in the fight against primary liver cancer, according to a study. Reovirus stimulates the body's...
Black women more likely to be diagnosed with late stage breast cancer than white women
Black African women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with late stage breast cancer as white women in England according to new analysis*...
Crowdsourcing a better prostate cancer prediction tool
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Knowing the likely course of cancer can influence treatment decisions. Now a new prediction model published today in Lancet...
The fruits of life
Among flowering plants, the rose family (called Rosaceae) displays an incredible diversity, including classic reds like the American beauty. But in addition to ornamentals making...
