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Improving cocoa yields for the chocolate industry, estimating the quality of meat in pigs and refining the design of a hydroponics system, were three farming...

Caught red-handed: The ‘Candy striped hermit crab’ is a new species from the Caribbean

Loading video... Credit: Rafael Lemaitre and Ellen Muller Recent underwater photographs and video obtained using scuba equipment by underwater photographer Ellen Muller at dive sites...

Development of a hydraulic drive high-power artificial muscle

Credit: Tokyo Institute of Technology/Bridgestone Corporation The artificial muscle that was developed using rubber tube is extremely powerful but lightweight and has strong resistance to...

Study finds premature death rates diverge in the United States by race and ethnicity

Premature death rates have declined in the United States among Hispanics, blacks, and Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs)--in line with trends in Canada and the United Kingdom--but...

Agricultural fires in Brazil harm infant health, a warning for the developing world

Credit: Global Fire Emissions Database Pollution from the controlled fires that burn across Brazil's São Paulo state during the sugarcane-harvesting season has a negative impact...

Automation speeds clinical safety surveillance

Credit: Anne Rayner/Vanderbilt University Using patient outcomes data from approximately 1,800 hospitals, the largest demonstration to date of automated safety surveillance of a medical device...

100 percent renewable energy sources require overcapacity

Germany decided to go nuclear-free by 2022. A CO2-emission-free electricity supply system based on intermittent sources, such as wind and solar - or photovoltaic (PV)...

MDI Biological Laboratory providing incubator space to Coagulation Sciences LLC

Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE -- The MDI Biological Laboratory has announced that it is providing incubator space and associated scientific resources on...

Study suggests best order of treatment for brain metastases in EGFR lung cancer

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center About 10 percent of lung cancers in the United States and as many as 40 percent in Asia are...

SF State research could improve conservation in regional marine sanctuaries

Credit: Sophie Webb, Point Blue/NOAA-ONMS/ACCESS) A new study published Wednesday by SF State researchers could benefit ocean zoning for coastal development plans and prove life-saving...

Universal CAR T cell therapy helps beat a hard-to-treat pediatric cancer

Credit: Val Altounian / Science Translational Medicine (2017) Two infants diagnosed with a relapsed form of childhood cancer who had previously exhausted all other treatment...

Researchers find new way to target blood stem cell cancers

A protein-sugar molecule, CD99, occurs more frequently than normal on stem cells responsible for blood cancers, including acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and the related myelodysplastic...

‘Navigators’ help indigenous cancer patients overcome barriers to diagnosis, treatment

CORVALLIS, Ore. - New research shows that patient "navigators" are a valuable resource for American Indians and Alaskan Natives with cancer as they try to...

Invasive beetle species in Hawaii can now be identified faster with new genetic test

Annapolis, MD; January 20, 2017--Researchers at the University of Hawaii have developed a new genetic-testing method for identifying the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle, which promises...

Top high-energy prize awarded to LSU physicist and LIGO scientist Gabriela González