A lot of galaxies need guarding in this NASA Hubble view
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team (STScI) Much like the eclectic group of space rebels in the upcoming film Guardians of...
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Ute Hellmich receives 2017 Fulbright-Cottrell Award
Credit: photo/©: David Ausserhofer, Fulbright Commission Professor Ute Hellmich of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has received a Fulbright-Cottrell Award, the most important transatlanti..
The final frontier of the Frontier Fields
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble, HST Frontier Fields The NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope has peered across six billion light years of space to resolve extremely faint features of...
New $21 million gift puts Basser Center for BRCA at the forefront of advancements for patients at risk of inherited cancers
Credit: Maurizio Bacci PHILADELPHIA - A new $21 million gift to the Basser Center for BRCA at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of...
Stand up to cancer releases nurses training modules for new immuno-oncology therapies
Credit: Stand Up To Cancer Boston, May 4, 2017: Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) today announced the release of a series of Continuing Nursing Education...
With more light, chemistry speeds up
Credit: IPC PAS, Grzegorz Krzyzewski Light initiates many chemical reactions. Experiments at the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy...
Stink bugs: Free guide for agricultural integrated pest management
Credit: Photo credits: Cassandra Kurtz and Christopher Philips, modified by Daniela Pezzini Annapolis, MD; April 28, 2017 -- Farmers in the midwestern United States have...
Edible insects could play key role in cutting harmful emissions
Eating insects instead of beef could help tackle climate change by reducing harmful emissions linked to livestock production, research suggests. Replacing half of the meat...
Best paper award for IST Austria Cryptographers and their collaborators
Credit: Nigel Smart Postdoc Joël Alwen and Professor Krzysztof Pietrzak -- together with their US collaborators -- have been awarded the best paper award at...
Cage-constrained growth of engineered cartilage reduces swelling and improves function
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, May 4, 2017--Researchers have shown that a novel cage constraint can prevent engineered cartilage from swelling...
Getting better drugs to market, more quickly
Getting better drugs to market faster, and at a fraction of the cost, is a step closer thanks to technology for speeding up the testing...
Holography with the Wi-fi-router
Credit: Friedemann Reinhard/Philipp Holl / TUM Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a holographic imaging process that depicts the radiation of...
Improving control of age-related obesity
Credit: Photo: Delphine Duteil The function and distribution of adipose tissue in the body change during the course of life. Beige fat cells, a special...
Bio-inspired catalysts that work in water open door to greener chemical processes
Québec City, May 4, 2017 - Université Laval researchers have developed catalysts that, like enzymes present in living cells, are able to function efficiently in...
Deadly nanoparcel for cancer cells
Most tumors contain regions of low oxygen concentration where cancer therapies based on the action of reactive oxygen species are ineffective. Now, American scientists have...