CHAPEL HILL - For many men newly diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, concerns about potential quality-of-life issues often guide treatment decisions. A new study led...
Faced with the negative quality-of-life effects from surgery and radiation treatments for prostate cancer, low risk patients may instead want to consider active surveillance with...
Pop quiz: Are crocodiles more closely related to lizards or to birds? The answer may surprise you. Although traditional taxonomy classifies birds separately, they are...
Credit: Photo by Randy Montoya ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Cybersecurity is critical -- for national security, corporations and private individuals. Sophisticated cybersecurity systems excel at finding...
BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- Why are some animals able to regenerate the form and function of almost any body part? What are the similarities and...
Credit: Carvalho-Santos WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- While the ability to easily control the magnetic properties of small electronic systems is highly desirable for...
Credit: Stevenson, Curro, McCoy WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- Polymers are used for myriad applications today, and perhaps the most important property that dictates...
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- A material with the perovskite crystal structure has become very popular for solar cells. While most perovskites are inorganic...
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- For the last two decades, magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) have played a central role in spintronic devices such as...
Credit: Anqi Shen, Yikun Liu, Xiaohui Qiu, Yongjun Lu and Shuang Liang WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- In the last decades, hydraulic fracturing or...
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, March 21, 2017 -- Pasta noodles contain only three ingredients: eggs, water and flour. But how can you achieve...
Columbus, Ohio - A large, new study of adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) correlates 80 cancer-related gene mutations with five subtypes of AML, which...
A collaboration between scientists at one of the UK's leading University drug discovery centres and the UK based biotech company ReViral has led to the...
Credit: iStock The silence of an immense desolate land in which to search for reverberations coming from the time at which everything began. The Simons...
Credit: Credits: NASA A hybrid computing system developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is the enabling technology behind an ambitious experiment...
