As DNA tests become more common, researchers rapidly add equipment to keep up
Credit: (Texas A&M AgriLife Research photo by Kathleen Phillips). Unless your career wardrobe consists of multiple white lab coats and your office has a cache...
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Astronomers perform largest-ever survey of high-mass binary star systems
In addition to solo stars like our Sun, the universe contains binary systems comprising two massive stars that interact with each other. In many binaries...
Moisture played a role in megafaunal extinctions
Credit: Photo by Julien Soubrier A new study published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution reveals that increased moisture levels may have been a...
Nutrient offers hope to stop deadly march toward cirrhosis, liver cancer
CORVALLIS, Ore. - A new study suggests that one type of omega 3 fatty acid offers people who are obese or have a poor diet...
IRCM research team discovers how immunotherapy can fight some cancers
What if our immune system could cure cancer? This logic seems almost too simple to be true, but it forms the basis of an emerging...
Geeking out in the golden years
Credit: Courtesy Philip Guo, UC San Diego Philip Guo caught the coding bug in high school, at a fairly typical age for a Millennial. Less...
Action required: Invasive fungus is killing European salamanders
Credit: Frank Pasmans The situation is alarming: The invasive Asian fungus has recently led to mass mortality of fire salamanders in the Netherlands, Belgium and...
Birds vs. bees: Study helps explain how flowers evolved to get pollinators to specialize
Credit: Robert Gegear, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of...
7 Years Later: BP oil spill settlement funding new way to manage fish populations
Credit: University of South Florida photographer Ryan Noone ST. PETERSBURG, FL (April 19, 2017)- More than 30,000 fish species exist. But it's always been a...
Hazardous chemicals go unregulated in routine oil and gas operations
OAKLAND, Calif. - California and more than two dozen other states require oil and gas producers to disclose the chemicals they use during hydraulic fracturing...
New microscopy method breaks color barrier of optical imaging
Credit: Nicoletta Barolini, Columbia University Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward breaking the so-called "color barrier" of light microscopy for biological...
Amino acids in diet could be key to starving cancer
Cutting out certain amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- from the diet of mice slows tumour growth and prolongs survival, according to...
Graphene ‘copy machine’ may produce cheap semiconductor wafers
In 2016, annual global semiconductor sales reached their highest-ever point, at $339 billion worldwide. In that same year, the semiconductor industry spent about $7.2 billion...
New analysis finds Medicare program underestimates heart attack mortality rates
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (April 19, 2017) - New analysis of Medicare's Hospital Compare portal shows the statistical methodology used to rate and compare hospitals underestimates mortality...
Newly discovered exoplanet may be best candidate in search for signs of life
Credit: ESO/spaceengine.org The newly discovered super-Earth LHS 1140b orbits in the habitable zone around a faint red dwarf star named LHS 1140, in the constellation...
