Dartmouth researchers use new computational method to define immune cell interactions
Credit: Frederick S. Varn Immunotherapy, harnessing a patient's immune system to help fight cancer, has shown much promise as a potential cancer treatment. In a...
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Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that...
Et Tu, E. Coli?
So they can't use smartphones or WiFi, but bacteria have evolved some seriously complex strategies to communicate with one another. And the resulting interactions are...
Marine recovery after mass extinction was likely delayed by further biotic crises
Credit: Richard Twitchett Biotic crises during the Triassic period may have delayed marine recovery after a mass extinction during the late Permian, according to a...
How plankton cope with turbulence
Credit: © ETH Zürich Microscopic marine plankton are not helplessly adrift in the ocean. They can perceive cues that indicate turbulence, rapidly respond to regulate...
Scientists mobilize as bleaching resumes on Great Barrier Reef
Coral researchers are remobilising to conduct aerial and underwater surveys along the Great Barrier Reef and elsewhere in Australia as coral bleaching reappears for the...
Recovery after ‘great dying’ was slowed by more extinctions
Credit: William Foster/The University of Texas at Austin. Researchers studying marine fossil beds in Italy have found that the world's worst mass extinction was followed...
New flexible sensor holds potential for foldable touch screens
Loading video... Credit: University of British Columbia Picture a tablet that you can fold into the size of a phone and put away in your...
From the butterfly’s wing to the tornado: Predicting turbulence
Loading video... Credit: Georgia Tech / Ben Brumfield An old adage holds that the flap of a butterfly's wing in Brazil can trigger a tornado...
Predicting how bad the bends will be
Credit: Laurens Howle, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates...
YouTube users be aware: Your viewing habits can be tracked
BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 15, 2017 -- Despite YouTube's attempts to safeguard user anonymity, intelligence agencies, hackers and online advertising companies can still determine which videos a...
Lyncean Technologies signs AXT Pty Ltd as representative in Australia and New Zealand
Lyncean Technologies, Inc., manufacturer of the Lyncean Compact Light Source (CLS), today announced the signing of AXT Pty Ltd as their exclusive representative in Australia...
Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- An international team of researchers discovered that inorganic chemicals can self-organize into complex structures that mimic primitive life on Earth. Florida State...
Detecting blood clot risk using biomarkers
Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does not stop at remission. Many...
When proteins court each other, the dance moves matter
Credit: Reprinted with permission of Biophysical Journal. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- At every moment inside the human body, a carefully choreographed dance is being performed. Proteins...
