Synthetic tooth enamel may lead to more resilient structures
ANN ARBOR -- Unavoidable vibrations, such as those on airplanes, cause rigid structures to age and crack, but researchers at the University of Michigan may...
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UW security researchers show Google’s anti-internet troll AI platform is easily deceived
Credit: University of Washington University of Washington researchers have shown that Google's new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can...
Singing posters and talking shirts: UW engineers turn objects into FM stations
Credit: University of Washington Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if...
Fred Hutch announces 2017 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award recipients
SEATTLE -- Mar. 1, 2017 -- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center today announced the recipients of the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, which recognizes...
World’s oldest fossils unearthed
Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one...
Rapid changes point to origin of ultra-fast black hole ‘burps’
Credit: The European Space Agency (ESA) Gas outflows are common features of active supermassive black holes that reside in the center of large galaxies. Millions...
Tweaking electrolyte makes better lithium-metal batteries
Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory RICHLAND, Wash. - Scientists have found adding a pinch of something new to a battery's electrolyte gives the energy storage...
USDA announces $1.8 million for research on next generation pesticides
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1.8 million in available funding to research...
NIFA announces nearly $770,000 for canola research
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of up to $766,000 for...
Restoring predators and prey together speeds recovery
Credit: Candice Emmons, NOAA Fisheries/NWFSC Restoring predator and prey species together helps accelerate ecosystem recovery efforts compared to pursuing restoration of one species at a...
BOLD prediction: Brain circuit that supports smoking cessation identified
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina Quitting smoking is hard. Yet success is more likely with strong communication between parts of the brain that inhibit...
Queen’s-led experiment makes substantial leap forward in quest for dark matter
KINGSTON/SUDBURY - New research, submitted for publication by the PICO Collaboration, has produced new direct-detection constraints on the existence of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles)...
Artificial intelligence enters the nutraceutical industry
Credit: Ageless Cell Wednesday, March 1st Baltimore, MD - In March 2016 Insilico Medicine initiated a research collaboration with Life Extension to apply advanced bioinformatic...
Study defines global burden of skin disease
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A study published today in JAMA Dermatology combines the prevalence of skin diseases around the world with their likelihood...
Media can register now for ESTRO 36 – Europe’s largest congress on radiation oncology
Registration has now opened for journalists for ESTRO 36 - Europe's largest congress on radiation oncology, organised by the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology...
