International engineering team develop self-powered mobile polymers
Credit: Jeong Jae Wie, Inha University/AFRL PITTSBURGH (Nov. 10, 2016) ... One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, "squishy" robots is the need for an...
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A new behavioural variant in wild chimpanzees: Algae fishing in Bakoun, Guinea
Credit: MPI-EVA, PanAf Chimpanzees often use tools to extract or consume food but which tools they choose for which purpose can differ depending on where...
Making the most of clean energy
Credit: Lehigh University, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science Recent years have witnessed the rise of an economic revolution--the so-called sharing economy. Businesses...
Die another day: How the immune system keeps ‘traitor cells’ in lockdown
(Garvan Institute of Medical Research) Australian researchers have uncovered how our immune system strikes a balance between attacking invaders and leaving our own tissues alone...
Higher vitamin D levels associated with better outcomes in breast cancer survivors
(Kaiser Permanente) Women with higher vitamin D levels in their blood following a breast cancer diagnosis had significantly better long-term outcomes, according to new research...
Possible reason for carcinogenicity of silica dust found
Credit: Courtesy of MIPT & Skoltech Scientists from LPI RAS, Skoltech, and MIPT led by Skoltech Professor Artem Oganov and leading scientist of LPI RAS...
Scientists come up with light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future
Credit: Image courtesy of the MIPT press office. Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the...
Predators can drive increase in virus populations, new study shows
Credit: John DeLong/Biological Sciences/University of Nebraska-Lincoln The transparent belly of a tiny beast has revealed how algae-infecting chloroviruses bloom in freshwater around the world, say..
Mirroring a drop in emissions, mercury in tuna also declines
For years, public health experts have warned against eating certain kinds of fish, including tuna, that tend to accumulate mercury. Still, tuna consumption provides more...
Louisiana Tech University research series welcomes precision medicine, health-care expert
RUSTON, La. - Tim Cooley, former executive vice president of operations for molecular health and former director for health outcomes and economics at Eli Lilly,...
Veterans served by nation’s community health centers increased by 43 percent
Credit: Milken Institute School of Public Health and Community Health Foundation WASHINGTON, DC and NEW YORK, NY (November 10, 2016) - The number of veterans...
Sensor for blood flow discovered in blood vessels
Physical forces like blood pressure and the shear stress of flowing blood are important parameters for the tension of blood vessels. Scientists have been looking...
Hunt for Huntington’s cause yields clues
Credit: Mingchen Chen/Rice University HOUSTON - (Nov. 10, 2016) - Rice University scientists have uncovered new details about how a repeating nucleotide sequence in the...
N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk
DURHAM, N.C. -- North Carolina children who live in rural counties or attend high poverty schools are more likely to be obese, a newly published...
Johns Hopkins researcher advance treatment of tuberculosis by targeting new enzyme
Researchers at Johns Hopkins report they have laid the foundation to develop novel antibiotics that work against incurable, antibiotic-resistant bacteria like tuberculosis by targeting an...
