In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?
Physicist Michio Kaku once said, "What we usually consider as impossible are simply engineering problems... there's no law of physics preventing them." And so it...
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Processed food: What Big Food doesn’t want you to know and its critics won’t tell you
Every food decision we make involves a trade-off of some kind. A healthy option might not be the most environmentally-friendly; fresh, local foods might be...
Federal preemption of taxes on state and local sugar-sweetened beverages is not warranted
Credit: (None required.) NEW YORK and BOSTON (Aug. 29, 2017)--Federal, state, and local governments each have a role to play in protecting health. Federal and...
NTU scientists use brewery waste to grow yeast needed for beer making
Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a new process to turn spent brewery grains into a valuable product...
Tears in tiny bone cells called osteocytes appear an important step to better bones
Credit: Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Augusta University AUGUSTA, Ga. (Aug. 29, 2017) - The force gravity and physical activity put on our bones causes tiny...
Obese people lack cells with satiety hormones
Credit: University of Basel Individuals with severe overweight have an inhibited sense of satiation - they release fewer satiety hormones than people of normal weight....
MouseAge.Org: Artificial intelligence for photographic biomarkers in mice
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Tuesday, 29th of August, 2017, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, Inc, a Baltimore-based next-generation artificial intelligence company, today announced its particip..
Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
Credit: Jacques van Alphen Researchers from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden examined woolly rhino and modern rhino neck vertebrae from several European and American...
An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
Credit: Robert Serrouya What happens when invasive and native species are eaten by the same predator? If the invasive species is abundant, the native species...
International study shows moderate consumption of fats and carbohydrates best for health
Credit: Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton, Ont. (August 29, 2017) - Research with more than 135,000 people across five continents has shown that a diet which...
New findings on the past and future of sea ice cover in the Arctic
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Maciej Telesinski Temperatures in the Arctic are currently climbing two to three times faster than the global average. The result - and,...
New treatment options for type 2 diabetes
Credit: Dr Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University Bacteria may be responsible for more than we suspect. Especially when it comes to inflammatory diseases such as Type...
Gunnerus Prize in Sustainability awarded to Carl Folke
Credit: M. Axelsson/Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre Professor Carl Folke has been awarded the 2017 Gunnerus Award in Sustainability Science for his outstanding scientific work...
New osteoporosis treatment uses traditional Chinese herb to prevent bone loss
An herb widely used in traditional Chinese medicine might hold the key to a new osteoporosis therapy that could prevent bone loss without causing side...
Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system, better enabling it to fight...
