ACC.17 media registration open; important dates announced
The 66th Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology will be March 17-19, 2017, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington,...
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UTA researcher shows computer users are overconfident when dealing with junk emails
Credit: UT Arlington UTA researchers show in a new study that people's confidence actually exceeds what they can achieve when judging phishing attacks in the...
University of South Carolina researchers discover new subtype of cervical cancer
Credit: Carolyn Banister/University of South Carolina A team of University of South Carolina scientists led by Carolyn Banister and Phillip Buckhaults has identified a new...
Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun
Credit: Big Bear Solar Observatory A groundbreaking new optical device, developed at NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) to correct images of the Sun distorted...
$10 million CDC grant funds center to fight vector-borne diseases
Managing mosquito-borne viruses, such as West Nile, Dengue, Zika and tick-borne Lyme disease have been a challenge due to lack of resources, knowledge and trained...
New molecular discovery may help identify drug therapies to prevent dementia
Rutgers University scientists have discovered a molecular pathway in the brain that may help provide answers to long-term memory problems in the elderly and aid...
For viral predators of bacteria, sensitivity can be contagious
Credit: (Hebrew University / Cell) Bacteriophages (phages) are probably the most abundant entities in nature, often exceeding bacterial densities by an order of magnitude. As...
Penn paleobiologist Lauren Sallan selected as a 2017 TED Fellow
Credit: University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania's Lauren Sallan, an assistant professor in the School of Arts & Sciences' Department of Earth and Environmental...
Meet Canada’s ‘poop lady’
Credit: Catherine Girard They call her the "poop lady." Way up north in Canada's Resolute Bay, an Arctic hamlet of less than 300 people in...
Pretty in pink: Some algae like it cold
Credit: UC's Jeff Havig It may look pretty, but the swaths of delicately-colored, pretty "precipitation" may lead to an increase in glacial melting, according to...
UMD researchers share optimistic vision for Paris Climate Agreement
Credit: Springer Climate, 2017 In December 2015, the world's nations negotiated the Paris Climate Agreement, which seeks to limit global warming to a maximum of...
TSRI signs collaboration agreement with Pfizer to advance DNA-encoded library technology
LA JOLLA, CA - January 10, 2017 - The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), a leading non-profit biomedical research institute, today announced a research collaboration and...
Researchers reveal connection between female estrogen cycle and cocaine addiction
Hormonal fluctuations women undergo make them particularly sensitive, compared to men, to the addictive properties of cocaine, according to a study conducted at the Icahn...
Study shows how marine microbes recycle iron from the debris of dead algae
Washington, DC - January 10, 2017 - A new study from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, shows the molecular machinery that...
Wastewater treatment upgrades result in major reduction of intersex fish
Credit: University of Waterloo Upgrades to a wastewater treatment plant along Ontario's Grand River led to a 70 per cent drop in fish that have...
