Bright future ahead for African plant biosecurity network
Credit: Plant Biosecurity CRC 5 April 2017 - The fourth Africa Plant Biosecurity Network workshop, held in Lusaka, Zambia from 27 February to 3 March,...
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DFG establishes 17 new priority programs
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 17 new Priority Programmes for 2018. Priority Programmes aim to advance knowledge in current areas of...
Trial: Abiraterone acetate responses even after initial hormone therapy failure
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Patients with metastatic prostate cancer whose PSA levels remain high despite initial hormone treatments have historically had poor prognosis,...
Victor Malka awarded the 2017 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Victor Malka (École Polytechnique Palaiseau/Weizmann Institute) for his outstanding research in laser plasma...
New technology could offer cheaper, faster food testing
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- The foodborne pathogen Escherichia coli O157 causes an estimated 73,000 illnesses and 60 deaths every year in the United States. Better safety...
Whiteflies provide insight into stabilizing manmade drones during takeoff
When whiteflies take off, they don't just spread their wings and fly. Just .03 of an inch long, these tiny insects possess a variety of...
Potentially explosive methane gas mobile in groundwater, poses safety risk: U of G study
Credit: G360 - University of Guelph Potentially explosive methane gas leaking from energy wells may travel extensively through groundwater and pose a safety risk, according...
Predicting the limits of friction: Sandia looks at properties of material
Credit: Sandia National Laboratories/Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Normally, bare metal sliding against bare metal is not a good thing. Friction will destroy pistons in...
Algorithms can exploit human perception in graph design
Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Aalto University Algorithms can now exploit models and measures of human perception to generate scatterplot designs. Scatterplots are...
Sonochemistry: New opportunities for green chemistry
Credit: World Scientific How does the use of ultrasound affect chemical reactions? Can scientific advancement and environmental sustainability go hand in hand? The importance of...
Love it or hate it: Marmite may affect brain function
Scientists at the University of York have discovered a potential link between eating Marmite and activity in the brain, through the apparent increase of a...
Carbon nanotubes self-assemble into tiny transistors
Credit: Arjen Kamp Carbon nanotubes can be used to make very small electronic devices, but they are difficult to handle. University of Groningen scientists, together...
Breakthrough telescope to map origins of stars, galaxies and the ‘cosmic dawn’
Credit: Vertex Antennentechnik GmbH, Germany ITHACA, N.Y. - A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed...
No sugar coating, but sweet nonetheless
Credit: Source: Christian Böhler, Maria Asplund Complex neurotechnological devices are required to directly select and influence brain waves inside the skull's interior. Although it has...
73% of academics say access to research data helps them in their work; 34% do not publish their data
Combining results from bibliometric analyses, a global sample of researcher opinions and case-study interviews, a new report reveals that although the benefits of open research...
