An illuminating honor
Credit: Melissa Van De Werfhorst UC Santa Barbara engineering professor Larry Coldren has received the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award from the Optical Society of...
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Developing climate-resilient wheat varieties
Credit: Mark Sorrells May 1, 2017 - Increases in climate variability have placed new emphasis on the need for resilient wheat varieties. Alongside demands for...
Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web
Loading video... Credit: Witman/PLOS ONE PROVIDENCE, R.I. --Despite popular metaphors and cartoons depicting straightforward "food chains," ecologists such as Brown University Pr..
When single-family homes killed L.A.’s urban forest
Credit: USC News and Spatial Sciences Institute Plant a tree, save the world? Maybe, but preventing the chopping down of trees for single-family home add-ons...
Kansas State University continues to lead effort to battle citrus greening
MANHATTAN, KANSAS - Kansas State University researchers will continue to lead efforts to combat a deadly bacterial disease that's affected up to 80 percent of...
Researchers to make corrections in climate change models
Global warming is a concept very well-known to people today, even those who are not particularly invested in such matters. However, this knowledge becomes obsolete...
LSUHealthNO awarded $2.5m grant to develop better dental filling materials
Credit: LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry New Orleans, LA - The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of...
Earthquakes can make thrust faults open violently and snap shut
Credit: Harsha Bhat/ENS It is a common trope in disaster movies: an earthquake strikes, causing the ground to rip open and swallow people and cars...
International Communication Association to hold annual conference in San Diego, CA
Washington, DC (May 1, 2017) The International Communication Association will hold its annual conference May 25-29 in San Diego, CA at the Hilton San Diego...
Serial analysis of CTCs may provide biomarker predictive of NSCLC response to crizotinib
Bottom Line: Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in...
New imaging method may predict immunotherapy response early
Bottom Line: A noninvasive PET imaging method that measures granzyme B, a protein released by immune cells to kill cancer cells, was able to distinguish...
Dr. Neville Sanjana receives 2017 melanoma research alliance young investigator award
NEW YORK, NY (May 1, 2017) - Dr. Neville Sanjana, Core Faculty Member at the New York Genome Center and Assistant Professor in the Departments...
Common antibiotics linked to increased risk of miscarriage
Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides and metronidazole, were associated with an increased risk of miscarriage in early pregnancy, according...
Physicists breeding Schroedinger cat states
Credit: Alexander Lvovsky (Toronto - May 1, 2017) Physicists have learned how they could breed Schrödinger cats in optics. CIFAR Quantum Information Science Fellow Alexander...
Rock samples indicate water is key ingredient for crust formation
Credit: Nick Dygert By examining the cooling rate of rocks that formed more than 10 miles beneath the Earth's surface, scientists led by The University...
