Paleolake deposits on Mars might look like sediments in Indonesia
Credit: Goudge et al. and GSA Bulletin Boulder, Colo., USA: In their GSA Bulletin article published online last week, Timothy A. Goudge and colleagues detail...
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Flashy first images arrive from NOAA’s GOES-16 lightning mapper
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA Detecting and predicting lightning just got a lot easier. The first images from a new instrument onboard NOAA's GOES-16 satellite are giving...
Computational method makes gene expression analyses more accurate
PITTSBURGH--A new computational method can improve the accuracy of gene expression analyses, which are increasingly used to diagnose and monitor cancers and are a major...
World’s largest autism genome database shines new light on many ‘autisms’
NEW YORK (March 6, 2017) - The newest study from the Autism Speaks MSSNG project - the world's largest autism genome sequencing program - identified...
New blood test could help detect and locate cancer early on
Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new blood test that could detect cancer -- and locate where in the body...
New method rescues donor organs to save lives
Loading video... Credit: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic/Columbia Engineering New York, NY--March 6, 2017--A multidisciplinary team led by Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Mikati Foundation Professor of Biomedica..
One-two punch may floor worst infections
Credit: McMaster University Hamilton, ON (March 6, 2017) - McMaster University researchers have found a new way to treat the world's worst infectious diseases, the...
World-first synthetic receptor mimics how cells ‘talk’ to the world around them
Credit: University of Bristol Researchers from the University of Bristol have found a way to mimic the way cells in living organisms 'talk' to the...
The influence of stimulants on performance when playing chess
How do highly complex cognitive processes change when we take pharmacological substances? Is it possible to enhance these processes by using substances such as the...
What’s the real extent of industry payments to doctors?
More than three in every five Americans see a doctor who receives some form of payment from industry. This is according to a new survey...
A new look at the nature of dark matter
Credit: NASA/Jason Cowan (Astronomy Technology Center). The nature of the dark matter which apparently makes up 80% of the mass of the particles in the...
Revealing the origin and nature of the outskirts of stellar megalopolises
Credit: Ignacio Trujillo (IAC) with images from the HUDF 2012 programme. Galaxies have dramatically grown in size since the early Universe, and elliptical galaxies, in...
Imaging the inner workings of a sodium-metal sulfide battery for first time
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY--Sometimes understanding how a problem arises in the first place is key to finding its solution. For a team of...
AGU’s newest open access journal GeoHealth publishes first articles
Washington, DC-- The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and Wiley today announced that GeoHealth, AGU's newest open access journal, has published its first set of articles....
Research survey evaluates attitudes toward microfluidics-based cell culture
Organ-on-chip and 3D cell culture technology have been highlighted as promising ways to ease the cost and inefficiency of the drug development process. A wide...
