Future ‘smart cities’ should be super-connected, green and resilient
Credit: Walid Saad/Virginia Tech When Superstorm Sandy lashed New Jersey in 2012, Narayan B. Mandayam lost power in his East Brunswick home for five days....
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Proteins at the movies
Credit: Kyoto University Proteins twist and contort as they go about their work. And now scientists have found a way to film these nuanced movements,...
Oregon researchers publish reference genome of gulf pipefish
Credit: Photo by Mark Currey EUGENE, Ore. -- Dec. 22, 2016 -- University of Oregon biologists have produced a detailed genome of the snakelike gulf...
UTSW identify process cells use to destroy damaged organelles, with links to diseases
Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center DALLAS - Dec. 22, 2016 - Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered the mechanism that cells use to...
Jujube genome study sheds light on fruit tree’s domestication
ITHACA, NY--The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube, along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication history of this...
Losing sleep over discrimination? ‘Everyday discrimination’ may contribute to sleep problemss
December 22, 2016 - People who perceive more discrimination in daily life have higher rates of sleep problems, based on both subjective and objective measures,...
Advance in intense pulsed light sintering opens door to improved electronics manufacturing
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Faster production of advanced, flexible electronics is among the potential benefits of a discovery by researchers at Oregon State University's College of...
Study potentially explains vulnerability of young cancer patients to treatment toxicities
Credit: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute BOSTON -- Despite many successes in treating pediatric cancer, young children remain at high risk for developing severe, long-lasting impairments in...
Obesity-associated protein could be linked to leukemia development
Credit: University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--Cancer researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have found an obesity-associated protein's role in leukemia development ..
Controlling the body clock
Credit: RIKEN A new study from the laboratory of Hiroki Ueda at the RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center investigates circadian timekeeping with a novel approach to...
Hidden hearing loss revealed by UConn School of Medicine researchers
Credit: Janine Gelineau/UConn Health Two researchers at UConn School of Medicine have developed a new hearing test that can identify hearing loss or deficits in...
Biologists use fossils to pinpoint when mammal and dinosaur ancestors became athletes
Credit: Photomicrograph by Adam Huttenlocker, wood mouse by Anne Burges, African clawed frog by Tim Vickers. Many mammals and birds are remarkable athletes; mice work...
Wayne State University leads groundbreaking research on preterm birth
DETROIT - Preterm birth -- birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy -- affects up to one in every six births in the United States and...
NJIT’s Sirkar named a 2016 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors
NJIT's Kamalesh Sirkar, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering acclaimed for his innovations in industrial membrane technology used to separate and purify air, water and...
Histologic classification impacts SBRT treatment in early-stage lung cancer patients
DENVER - Early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) have a significantly higher rate of local failure after stereotactic body...
