New study emphasizes the relative scarcity of lake water
Credit: David Seekell What is the volume of water in lakes on Earth? Using a mathematical analysis, researcher David Seekell, at Umeå University, and his...
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Oxford University Press and Zhejiang University Press launch Food Quality and Safety
Oxford University Press (OUP), together with Zhejiang University Press (ZUP) in Hangzhou, China, has launched a new, peer reviewed open-access journal: Food Quality and Safety...
Scientists discover master switch to turn on silent biosynthetic gene clusters
Bacteria have supplied some of today's most indispensable anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. Yet these compounds comprise only a fraction of their possible offerings. Now, researchers...
First large-scale survey of Chagas disease in the United States confirms that the ‘silent killer’ is a major public health challenge for the country
Credit: Fabio Nascimento-DNDi A study of almost 5,000 Latin American-born residents of Los Angeles County found that 1.24% tested positive for Chagas disease, a parasitic...
UVA finds way to view genes inside living cells
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System Researchers have developed a technique to watch the movement of genes inside living cells in real time. They...
Measuring the shadow of the black hole
The international Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration, which is imaging for the first time the black-hole candidate at the center of our Milky Way, has...
New infrared-emitting device could allow energy harvesting from waste heat
Credit: Xinyu Liu, Duke University WASHINGTON -- A new reconfigurable device that emits patterns of thermal infrared light in a fully controllable manner could one...
Nanotubes that build themselves
Researchers from Lund University in Sweden have succeeded in producing nanotubes from a single building block using so-called molecular self-recognition. The tube can also change...
EU funds research on biofuels and infectious diseases
Environmentally friendly fuels Volker Müller is one of the leading microbiologists worldwide in the field of microbial metabolism of microbes that grow in the absence...
Defects in epithelial tissue organization — A question of life or death
Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have discovered the primary mechanism driving the ..
Common drugs, uncommon risks? Higher rate of serious problems after short-term steroid use
ANN ARBOR, MI - Millions of times a year, Americans get prescriptions for a week's worth of steroid pills, hoping to ease a backache or...
Method improves semiconductor fiber optics, paves way for developing devices
Credit: Penn State A new method to improve semiconductor fiber optics may lead to a material structure that might one day revolutionize the global transmission...
microRNA may reduce stroke risk
The most common cause for the narrowing of the carotid artery is atherosclerosis, where so-called plaques build up on the vessel walls. If a plaque...
Immune system can spot tell-tale change in identity of cancer antigens — study
A new study has identified novel mechanisms whereby T cells may be able to distinguish an emerging class of targets specifically increased on cancer cells....
It’s still a bad idea to text while driving even with a head-up display
Drivers commonly perform secondary tasks while behind the wheel to navigate or communicate with others, which has led to a significant increase in the number...
