Safer, less vulnerable software is the goal of new NIST computer publication
Credit: Hanacek / NIST We can create software with 100 times fewer vulnerabilities than we do today, according to computer scientists at the National Institute...
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$434,000 to environmental humanities
Credit: Stefan Holgersson The Seed Box, Sweden's largest research programme in the environmental humanities, is now allocating grants to researchers, writers and artists around the...
Availability of human food shortens and disrupts bears’ hibernation
Credit: Journal of Zoology With winter approaching, bears all over the world are getting ready to hibernate. New research suggests that not all bears will...
Protein synthesis: Ribosome recycling as a drug target
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich researchers have elucidated a mechanism that recycles bacterial ribosomes stalled on messenger RNAs that lack termination codons. The protein involved p..
Flowers use physics to attract pollinators
Credit: New Phytologist A new review indicates that flowers may be able to manipulate the laws of physics, by playing with light, using mechanical tricks,...
Researchers stress the need for research on Ebola virus disease in great apes
Credit: Mammal Review Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a threat to human health, but it also threatens the survival of African great apes. A new...
Kids’ restaurant menu items often include excess calories
Most kids' menu items offered by the nation's top 200 restaurant chains exceed the calorie counts recommended by nutrition experts, a new RAND Corporation study...
New compound targets TB bacterium’s defense against the immune system
Credit: Sello Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Part of the reason tuberculosis-causing bacteria are so good at colonizing the human body is that...
How will electronic medical records and patient portals change patient care
Healthcare Transformation (), a breakthrough new peer-reviewed, open access journalzine spearheaded by Stephen Klasko, MD, MBA, President, Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and CEO Jefferson Health...
£60 million boost to strengthen the UK’s manufacturing base through 6 new research hubs
(Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) Six new £10 million research hubs that will explore and improve new manufacturing techniques across fields such as targeted...
No safe level of smoking
People who consistently smoked an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime had a 64 percent higher risk of earlier death...
Moffitt Cancer Center study shows promising clinical activity
TAMPA, Fla. (Dec. 5, 2016) - Immune cellular therapy is a promising new area of cancer treatment. Anti-cancer therapeutics, such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)...
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons announces official open access journal
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), a global leader in orthopaedic surgical education, is announcing the forthcoming launch of JAAOS: Global Research & Reviews....
Babies’ first words can be predicted based on visual attention, IU study finds
Credit: Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University psychologists have shown that a baby's most likely first words are based upon their visual experience, laying...
Global public health advocates open new fronts in war on tobacco
Credit: IASLC Efforts to control tobacco as a public health threat have escalated as clinicians and public health advocates have coalesced to beat back threats...
