Astronomers unveil ‘heart’ of Eta Carinae
An international team of astronomers has imaged the Eta Carinae star system in the greatest detail ever. Eta Carinae is a colossal binary system that...
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RIT researchers fix Landsat 8 imagery, measurements with ‘innovative’ algorithm
Rochester Institute of Technology researchers have solved a problem nagging NASA's Landsat 8 Earth-sensing satellite. Stray light in the thermal infrared sensor, or TIRS, reduces...
New international recognition for professor Federico Rosei
Professor Federico Rosei, who is also the director of the INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Center, has been elected a member of the World Academy...
Some hog workers developing drug-resistant skin infections
New Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health-led research suggests that some workers at industrial hog production facilities are not only carrying livestock-associated, antibiotic-resistant bac..
Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems
Credit: Abigail Swann/University of Washington Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape....
Acoustic buoy now detecting rare & endangered whales in New York Bight
Credit: CREDIT: A.H. Kopelman for CRESLI. New York (November 16, 2016) - An acoustic buoy recently deployed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and...
Study reveals impacts of climate warming and declining sea ice on Arctic whale migration
Credit: Vicki Beaver, NOAA Declines in the Arctic sea ice are arguably the most dramatic evidence of the effects of current climate warming on ocean...
Matchmaking for coffee?
Credit: Marcos José Perdoná Americans drink 400 million cups of coffee a day. Where does all of that coffee come from? Brazil is the world's...
Nanopolymer-modified protein array can pinpoint hard-to-find cancer biomarker
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A Purdue University biochemist has developed a novel method for detecting certain types of proteins that serve as indicators for cancer...
Researchers receive Patent for Humanity award
Malaria has killed more people than any disease caused by a single organism, including small pox and the plague. Symptoms include high fever, copious sweating,...
New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals
Loading video... Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(November 16, 2016) Salk Institute researchers have discovered a holy grail of gene editing--the ability to, for the first...
Looking for a city’s DNA? Try its ATMs
Automated teller machine keypads in New York City hold microbes from human skin, household surfaces, or traces of food, a study by researchers at New...
LSU Health New Orleans reports innovations in defining sources of GI bleeding
New Orleans, LA - A team of physicians at LSU Health New Orleans has found that endoscopy combined with the administration of antiplatelet or anticoagulant...
New hydrogel can take organoids from dish to clinic
Credit: N. Gjorevski/EPFL EPFL scientists have developed a gel for growing miniaturized body organs that can be used in clinical diagnostics and drug development. Organoids...
Mutation that triggered multicellular life altered protein flexibility
Credit: Courtesy of Kenneth Prehoda EUGENE, Ore. -- Nov. 16, 2016 -- Just as a boat can be driven off course by a log in...
