Study signals need to screen genes for stem cell transplants
Regenerative medicine using human pluripotent stem cells to grow transplantable tissue outside the body carries the promise to treat a range of intractable disorders, such...
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NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Muifa in Northwestern Pacific Ocean
Credit: Credits: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen Tropical Storm Muifa continued to move through the open waters of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean as NASA's Aqua satellite...
Berkeley Lab scientists discover new atomically layered, thin magnet
Credit: Zhenglu Li/Berkeley Lab It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led...
Sun’s eruptions might all have same trigger
Credit: Wyper, P./Nature Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better...
UCI physicists design 2-D materials that conduct electricity at almost the speed of light
Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI Irvine, Calif. - Physicists at the University of California, Irvine and elsewhere have fabricated new two-dimensional quantum materials with breakthrough...
Scientists propose mechanism to describe solar eruptions of all sizes
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/ARMS/Genna Duberstein, producer From long, tapered jets to massive explosions of solar material and energy, eruptions on the sun come...
Paleontologists identify new 507-million-year-old sea creature with can opener-like pincers
Loading video... Credit: Image credit: 3D animation by Lars Fields. Copyright: Royal Ontario Museum TORONTO, ON (Canada) - Paleontologists at the University of Toronto (U...
New study deems dairy ‘excellent’ source of protein for children
URBANA, Ill. - Researchers at the University of Illinois are using pigs as a model to study the best way of evaluating protein quality in...
Corn with a cover of grass
Credit: Iowa State University photo credit Dan Kuester. The phrase "a double-edged sword" describes something that is beneficial in some ways but problematic in others....
USDA announces $1 million to support agricultural science education for insular areas
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $1 million in available...
USDA announces $800,000 to support distance education in the agricultural sciences
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 26, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $800,000 in available funding...
Food photos help Instagram users with healthy eating
Instagram users post millions of food photos -- whether to show off a sophisticated palate, make friends drool over chicken and waffles or artfully arrange...
Sequencing the station: Investigation aims to identify unknown microbes in space
Credit: NASA Building on the ability to sequence DNA in space and previous investigations, Genes in Space-3 is a collaboration to prepare, sequence and identify...
Larger schooling fish found to have stronger attraction forces
In schooling fish, collective movement emerges as a result of multiple social interactions between individuals. In a new study led by researchers at Uppsala University,...
Rice’s Lydia Kavraki wins ACM Athena Lecturer Award
Credit: Tommy LaVergne/Rice University Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has received one of the most prestigious honors in her field, the Association for Computing...
