Low-cost imaging system detects natural gas leaks in real time
Credit: Graham M. Gibson, University of Glasgow WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed an infrared imaging system that could one day offer low-cost, real-time detection of...
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New study compares the effects of direct exposure to cigarette smoke or e-cigarette vapor
New Rochelle, NY, February 1, 2017--Researchers reported changes in the expression levels of 123 genes when reconstituted lung tissue was exposed to cigarette smoke, compared...
CIFAR receives $4M to strengthen health research in B.C.
(Toronto - Feb. 3, 2017) CIFAR (The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) welcomes the announcement by British Columbia's Ministry of Health that it has made...
Potential new cancer treatment activates cancer-engulfing cells
Credit: Kobe University Macrophages(1) are a type of white blood cell that can engulf and destroy cancer cells. A research group led by Professor MATOZAKI...
Hard shell — healthy kernel
Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU "For a long time now we have known that nuts are full of substances that are good for the heart and the...
New software automates brain imaging
Credit: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience When humans and animals learn and form memories, the physical structures of their brain cells change. Specifically, small...
Launch of the Helmholtz Pioneer campus
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) The visionary enterprise at Helmholtz Zentrum München is recruiting top international researchers from different disciplin..
The solution from the skies to save endangered species
Credit: Belongs to Liverpool John Moores University The world's first astrophysics-ecology drone project at Liverpool John Moores University could be the answer to many global...
An application of astronomy to save endangered species
Loading video... Credit: Dr. Steve Longmore, Professor Serge Wich, Andy Goodwin, Ron Collins, Simon Pfeiffer. Four centuries ago, Galileo began a revolution by pointing his...
Online Pest Risk Atlas for Africa to combat climate change effects on pest management
The International Potato Center (CIP) announces the launch of its free online mobile accessible Pest Risk Atlas for Africa that assesses potential pest risks under...
Machine learning method accurately predicts metallic defects
Credit: Bharat Medasani, Berkeley Lab / PNNL For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have built and trained machine...
Cholera bacteria stab and poison enemies at predictable rates
Credit: Georgia Tech's Brian Hammer and TEDx Douglasville The enemies were thrown together, so the killing began. Brandishing harpoon-like appendages covered in poison, two armies...
Can childhood cancer treatments affect survivors’ sex lives in adulthood?
ö A recent analysis showed that although adult survivors of childhood cancer did not differ overall from their peers in terms of their satisfaction with...
Monell Center receives grant to characterize distinctive odor of ovarian cancer
Credit: Paola Nogueras/Monell Center PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 6, 2017) - Promising research to identify a characteristic odor that can be used to detect early stage ovarian...
Terahertz wireless could make spaceborne satellite links as fast as fiber-optic links
(Hiroshima University) Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capab..
