Toxic cocktail
Today, everyone carries a toxic load of industrially-produced chemicals in their bloodstream: pesticides, plasticizers, disinfectant products, flame-retardants, surfactants, and UV filters. These chem..
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City of Hope researchers discover how breast cancer spreads to the brain
DUARTE, Calif. -- Ninety percent of cancer deaths are from cancer spread. Breast cancer patients, for example, typically do not die because cancer returns in...
Study finds not all women get appropriate care for cervical cancer
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Women with locally advanced cervical cancer whose treatment follows national guidelines for care have better survival, regardless of...
JILA team discovers many new twists in protein folding
Credit: JILA BOULDER, Colo.-- Biophysicists at JILA have measured protein folding in more detail than ever before, revealing behavior that is surprisingly more complex than...
Skill trumps luck
Credit: Photo by John Ulan for UAlberta. A team of computing scientists from the University of Alberta's Computer Poker Research Group is once again capturing...
Researchers store computer operating system and short movie on DNA
Loading video... Credit: Columbia University Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape can handle, a problem that has scientists turning...
Most complex nanoparticle crystal ever made by design
Credit: Credit: Glotzer Group, University of Michigan. Copyright: Science EVANSTON, Ill. --- The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles has been reported by...
Plant dominance in the Amazon is shaped by past civilizations
Credit: Hans ter Steege Plants that were domesticated by pre-Columbian peoples are, to this day, much more likely to be dominant in Amazonian forests than...
Ancient peoples shaped the Amazon rainforest
Credit: Hans ter Steege An international team of ecologists and social scientists has shown in a new study published 3 March in the journal Science...
Colorado Governor is keynote speaker at SSA Annual Meeting
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper will be the keynote speaker at the 2017 SSA Annual Meeting's Public Policy Luncheon, scheduled for 12 noon CT on 19...
Melting temperature of Earth’s mantle depends on water
Credit: Image is courtesy of Emily Sarafian. Washington, DC--A joint study between Carnegie and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has determined that the average temperature...
A vulnerability in triple-negative breast cancer could improve treatment outcomes
Credit: Ludwig Cancer Research MARCH 2, 2017, New York -- A team of researchers led by Alex Toker of the Ludwig Center at Harvard has...
Probing seven worlds with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
Credit: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James...
Newborn harbor porpoises have the fastest hearing development among mammals
Credit: Solvin Zankl © Fjord og Bælt- Kerteminde All mammals can hear -- but it is not an ability that is fully developed at birth....
Physical therapy proves as effective as surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome
Physical therapy is as effective as surgery in treating carpal tunnel syndrome, according to a new study published in the March 2017 issue of the...
