CubeSats: Shaping possibilities in space
Credit: NASA For more than a decade, CubeSats, or small satellites, have paved the way to low-Earth orbit for commercial companies, educational institutions, and non-profit...
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The genetics behind being Not Like Daddy
Heidelberg, 22 February 2017 - A common strategy to create high-yielding plants is hybrid breeding - crossing two different inbred lines to obtain characteristics superior...
Widely accepted vision for agriculture may be inaccurate, misleading
Credit: Randy Kilmer "Food production must double by 2050 to feed the world's growing population." This truism has been repeated so often in recent years...
Study finds consumers willing to pay more for ‘all-natural’ labeled foods
CHICAGO - A study published in the Journal of Food Science found that expectations of product quality, nutritional content and the amount of money consumers...
CancerLinQ partners with premier radiation oncology society
Credit: ASCO ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 22, 2017 - CancerLinQ LLC and the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) are partnering to bring radiation oncology expertise...
Critters, plants and waste offer a more sustainable supply of catalysts
From earthworm guts to mining waste, scientists are exploring a wide range of new sources of catalysts that could help us make medicines, fuels and...
Asthma drugs could prevent prevent deadly form of pneumonia, research suggests
Credit: Josh Barney | UVA Health System Two drugs used to treat asthma and allergies may offer a way to prevent a form of pneumonia...
Researchers gain insight into a physical phenomenon that leads to earthquakes
Scientists have gotten better at predicting where earthquakes will occur, but they're still in the dark about when they will strike and how devastating they...
NASA spies Tropical Cyclone Bart’s end
Credit: Credits: NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team NASA's Aqua satellite spotted Tropical Cyclone Bart as it was transitioning into an extra-tropical cyclone in the...
High indoxyl sulfate levels caused by acute kidney injury damages lungs
Credit: Dr. Hideyuki Saito Acute kidney injury (AKI) is sudden kidney failure or damage lasting from a few hours to several days. During this time,...
Study: Changing the environment within bone marrow alters blood cell development
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Researchers at the University of Illinois report they can alter blood cell development through the use...
A close look at sharp vision in eye structure seen only in humans and other primates
Credit: Xiaoyun Wu/UW Medicine Vision scientists have uncovered some of the reasons behind the unusual perceptual properties of the eye's fovea. Only humans and other...
How proteins find one another
Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been studying two proteins that play a vital role in many bodily processes. The aim of the research...
First trace of differences between matter and ‘ordinary’ antimatter
Credit: Source: CERN, The LHCb Collaboration Cracow, 22 February 2017 The world around us is mainly constructed of baryons, particles composed of three quarks. Why...
Antimicrobial substances identified in Komodo dragon blood
Credit: Kent Vliet In a land where survival is precarious, Komodo dragons thrive despite being exposed to scads of bacteria that would kill less hardy...
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