Why chemists marched for science (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, April 28, 2017 -- Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and many more at hundreds of...
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Introducing the 2017 Class of AGA Research Foundation awardees
Bethesda, MD (April 28, 2017) -- The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Foundation is thrilled to award 52 researchers with research funding in the 2017...
Hubble’s bright shining lizard star
Credit: NASA/ Hubble ESA In space, being outshone is an occupational hazard. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a galaxy named NGC 7250. Despite...
Hybrid heterostructures with programmable potentials
Credit: P. Samori/Strasbourg Stacking thin layers of graphene and related materials (GRMs) leads to heterostructure devices with a variety of different electronic and optical properties,...
Antibiotics counteract the beneficial effect of whole grain
According to recommendations from the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, adult Danes should consume at least 75 g whole meal a day. However, it is...
Further knowledge required about the differences between milk proteins
New knowledge on milk composition and quality is of essential importance to consumers as well as the industry. There are therefore considerable research efforts in...
Scientists set record resolution for drawing at the one-nanometer length scale
Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory UPTON, NY -- The ability to pattern materials at ever-smaller sizes -- using electron-beam lithography (EBL), in which an electron-sensitive material...
Two papers challenge exclusion of acupuncture in government guidelines
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017-- Even as news in the United States recently highlighted the growing inclusion of...
The world’s fastest film camera: When light practically stands still
Forget high-speed cameras capturing 100 000 images per second. A research group at Lund University in Sweden has developed a camera that can film at...
The swollen colon — cause of chronic inflammation discovered
Credit: Mainz University Medical Center Researchers at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Helmholtz...
AI-based smartphone application can predict user’s health risks
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed artificial intelligence (AI)-based data analysis methods used in a smartphone application of Odum Ltd. The application can...
Harvard & UT researchers propose systems connection in acupuncture & 21st century medicine
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, April 28, 2017 - Harvard University's renown fascia researcher Helene Langevin, MD, and co-author Rosa Schnyer,...
$2.4 million grant funds new new Biomedical Big Data to Knowledge Training Program
A new $2.4-million program for graduate students seeking to contribute to breakthrough discoveries in medicine and biology has been established at Penn State University with...
WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction established at Weill Cornell Medicine
NEW YORK (April 28, 2017) - Weill Cornell Medicine today announced a gift made by WorldQuant, LLC ("WorldQuant") and Igor Tulchinsky that will further realize...
A new study revises the development and evolutionary origin of the vertebrate brain
Credit: © Universidad de Murcia A study recently published in PLOS Biology provides information that substantially changes the prevailing idea about the brain formation process...
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